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Xin Zhang Featured in American Scientist
The metamaterials pioneer spoke at length with the prestigious science magazine's editor-in-chief. More
How to Protect Your Information after the Potentially Largest Data Breach Ever
Data breaches may be even more common than reported, says Egele. More
Levine Professorship for Tianyu Wang
Wang is "pushing the physical limits of computation and the design of advanced sensing hardware." More
5 ENG Faculty Featured at Research on Tap
The event showcased some of BU’s star researchers, celebrating how they cross and blur disciplinary boundaries in the pursuit of innovation. More
Analog Neural Networks: Nature Communications Publishes ECE Researchers’ Blueprint for Precision
First author Cansu Demirkiran (ECE PhD’24) and advisor Professor Ajay Joshi discuss "fault-tolerant analog neural networks.” More
New Textile for Smarter, Sturdier Fitness Tracking Tech
The novel metamaterial overcomes sweat, salt water, and security challenges More
Efficient, Secure, and Coming to a Cloud Near You
Professor Ajay Joshi and former advisee Rashmi Agrawal have received a 2024 Ignition Award for their company, CipherSonic. More
Ignition Awards for ENG Researchers
The awards accelerate the advancement of promising new technology, identifying a pathway to bring a new product to market. More
ECE’s Lightbulb Moment: Professor Dall’Anese Brings Sustainable Energy Focus
ECE's newest Associate Professor, Emiliano Dall’Anese, centers his research on the challenge of implementing renewable energy at scale. More
NSF Grant to Help BU PhD Students Attack Climate Change
The research traineeship grant will help PhD students collaborate on new ways to convert and store sustainable energy. More
Dunlop, Holmes, and Stringhini Earn ENG Honors
The awards recognize the mid-career faculty members' contributions to research and teaching. More
Making MRI More Globally Accessible
Zhang's work has led to a string of breakthrough devices that can sharpen and speed up MRI imaging of knees, ankles, spines, and more. More
Six BU Researchers Win Prestigious Early-Career Award to Advance Their Work
Four ENG Faculty of the Six BU Researchers to Win Prestigious Early-Career Award More
Coskun Lab Collaborates with Brown University Researchers on Breakthrough in Chip Thermal Simulation
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New AI Program Could Predict Likelihood of Alzheimer’s
Yannis Paschalidis and colleagues developed the machine learning model, which works by analyzing speech patterns. More
Summer Research Fellowships Announced
Thanks to generous alumni, undergrads are working as full-time lab researchers this summer. More
Zhang Wins the 2024 Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award
Xin Zhang is a pioneer in metamaterials. More
ECE Students Are Societal Engineers
As part of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering's Senior Design Capstone these student teams created real-world solutions to real-world issues, working as a new kind of engineer: The Societal Engineer® More
Yang and Gopalan Now Full Professors
Two materials experts from ENG are among the 22 faculty on BU’s Charles River Campus who have been promoted to the rank of full professor. More
BU’s Innovator of the Year Has Pioneered Devices to Advance Astronomy, Microscopy, Eye Exams
The director of the University’s cross-disciplinary Photonics Center, Bifano is the 14th winner of the award, given to an “outstanding faculty member who has translated world-class research into an invention or innovation that benefits humankind.” A holder of 10 patents, he’s also chief technology officer of Boston Micromachines Corporation, a company he cofounded to develop and market deformable mirrors and other optics products. More
Innovation Leans In
Professor Nazer Receives 2024 Gitner Family Award for "flipped classroom" model for teaching foundational engineering course. More
Algae Fuel Cell Tops Imagineering Competition
With a cross-disciplinary team, a LEAP student develops his childhood dream into a promising power source More
Siddharth Ramachandran Joins Ranks of AAAS Fellows
The Distinguished Professor of Engineering is being honored for “pioneering contributions to the generation, control, and propagation of singular states of light, enabling applications spanning classical and quantum communications, imaging, and high-power lasers.” More
Vivek Goyal Named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow
Goyal earned the prestigious honor in part on the strength of his prediction-making algorithms and his ground-breaking imaging technology. More
Ji-Xin Cheng Delivers 2024 DeLisi Lecture
The cutting-edge imaging techniques developed by Cheng have advanced the field and are in use in labs and clinics around the globe. More
Professor Cheng Receives Spectrochemical Analysis Award
Professor Ji-Xin Cheng has been named the recipient of this year’s American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry Spectrochemical Analysis Award. More
Professor Wenchao Li Earns NSF CAREER Award
Professor Li’s project aims to overcome fundamental challenges in Imitation Learning for AI systems. More
Rising Stars at “Chip Olympics”
BU researchers drew notice and garnered awards at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference. More
Bringing the Brain Into Focus
Professor Tianyu Wang receives grant from the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative for reinventing a quantum-inspired light source to improve deep-tissue imaging. More
Ji-Xin to Deliver Annual DeLisi Lecture
Ji-Xin to Deliver Annual DeLisi Lecture Rabia Yazicigil earns Early Career Research Excellence Award In recognition of their contributions to engineering and society, the Moustakas Chair Professor... More
Moustakas Garners Optica’s Holonyak Award
The distinguished professor of photonics and optoelectronics revolutionized the semiconductor field. More
Early Career Excellence: Professor Rabia Yazicigil Recognized By NSF and BU College of Engineering
Professor Rabia Yazicigil’s outstanding contributions have been doubly recognized, with the recent conferral of a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award and an Early Career Excellence in Research Award from the BU College of Engineering. More
Professor Ji-Xin Cheng receives SPIE Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award
Professor Ji-Xin Cheng is the recipient of the 2024 SPIE Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award. He earned this prestigious award for the “invention and commercialization of mid-infrared photothermal microscopy that allows highly sensitive dye-free bond-selective imaging of living cells and organisms.” The mIRage system, based on Cheng’s IP on mid-infrared photothermal microscopy and produced by Photothermal Spectroscopy Corp at Santa Barbara, has been delivered to over 100 research labs in 15 countries worldwide. More
FDA Clears Bigio’s Tech for Skin Cancer Detection
Is that an innocent mole or skin cancer? An optical technique pioneered by Irving Bigio could cut the number of missed cancers in half. More
High Performance From BU ECE At SC23
BU ECE researchers, both faculty and students, made a major impact at SC23, the premier conference in high-performance computing. More
A Bright New Light: Tianyu Wang Joins ECE
BU ECE’s newest Assistant Professor believes in the power of convergent research to spark novel technological advances. More
This Is Something I Can Do
Boston-area high school students spend five weeks of the summer working full-time in the labs of BME faculty researchers solving real-world problems. More
ECE CHIPS In: Minuscule Hardware, Maximum Impact
In many ways, Professor Rabia Yazicigil is the very image of the kind of scientist and engineer called for by the CHIPS Act: productive, inventive, application-focused, collaborative- and service-minded, and an active mentor cultivating similar values and capabilities in a younger generation of innovators. More
Revealed: Dazzling Molecular Details of Living Cells and Organisms
“If we could use the intrinsic chemical bonds within every molecule to visualize biology, we could achieve better molecular information without relying on labeling." More
Professor Venkataraman Provides Nuanced Perspective On Medical Applications of A.I.
Professor Archana Venkataraman added her experienced voice to the ongoing public conversation about the transformative potential of A.I. in a recent article for Newsweek. More
ECE CHIPS In: The Computing Power of Light
This is the second article in our series highlighting BU ECE’s contributions to research and education under the umbrella of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, and our faculty’s collective investment in the national effort to build a robust and innovative semiconductor industry. More
Zhang to Join European Academy of Sciences and Arts
The non-governmental association is committed to promoting scientific and societal progress. More
Professor Miloš Popović Elected NAI Fellow
The selection of NAI Fellows is based on their demonstration of a “highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on the quality of life, economic development, and welfare of society.” More
Unveiling a New Era of Imaging: BU Engineers Lead Breakthrough Microscopy Techniques
Ji-Xin Cheng and colleagues have made significant advancements in the field of vibrational imaging. More
Hariri Group Co-Founds AI Alliance
The MOC Alliance is delighted to be part of the AI Alliance,” says Professor Orran Krieger (ECE), director of the MOC Alliance. “The MOC Alliance’s open-source production cloud platform, with all the operations state and telemetry available to enable innovation, make it an exciting match for the AI Alliance’s mission of advancing open, transparent AI." More
Associate Professor Archana Venkataraman Selected As Computing & Data Sciences Faculty Fellow
The BU CDS Faculty Fellows Program is geared towards fostering a community of scholars reflecting this same convergent disciplinary approach, with a particular focus on supporting recent recruits to the BU faculty whose research shows significant promise. More
Professor Roberto Paiella Elected Optica Fellow
He was awarded this honor “for outstanding contributions to the development of novel optoelectronic devices based on quantum-confined systems and photonic nanostructures.” More
Xin Zhang Earns Sigma Xi’s Chubb Award
The prestigious Walston Chubb Award for Innovation is the latest in a string of honors for this pioneer of metamaterials. More
ECE CHIPS In: Efficiently Secure Computing
This article is the first part of a series highlighting BU ECE’s contributions to research and education under the umbrella of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, and our faculty’s collective investment in the national effort to build a robust and innovative semiconductor industry. More
Machines and Health
BU engineers are combining their expertise to develop robotic and AI technologies to help solve health problems of all kinds. More