News
Shannon Stott appointed as Chair of BME department
It is my great pleasure to make the official announcement that Dr. Shannon Stott will be the next chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering. More
Exceptional Points, Exceptional Outcomes
Professor Luca Dal Negro has received $600K to explore new approaches to infrared radiation sensing. More
Ayse Coskun Examines the Large Energy Needs of Data Centers
Every text, email and social media post. Every digital photo, web search and credit card transaction. Every online purchase. Every streaming show. Nearly everything in... More
Going Deeper
Professor Ji-Xin Cheng has been awarded a prestigious $2.8M 5-year NIH MIRA grant renewal to continue his pioneering microscopy research. More
Xin Zhang, James Galagan Recognized for World-Changing Ideas
The engineering professors' inventions made the 2025 Fast Company list. More
A Glimpse at Tomorrow’s Energy Technologies
This year's Catalyst Summit showcased groundbreaking research and fresh ideas in energy, AI, and sustainability technology. More
Controlling for Uncertainty
With the support of a $380K grant from the NSF, Professor Emiliano Dall’Anese is working to design the novel optimization methods required for complex energy infrastructures under increasingly volatile user behavior. More
NASA Satellite Launched With BU-Built Device On Board
Developed by Brian Walsh and students, COSSMo uses an array of photodetectors that measure the flow of photons from the sun. More
BU Receives Major Multimillion Dollar NIH Grant for Women’s Health Research
The grant will also spur investment in early-career faculty. More
Smart Management for AI Power Consumption
A pair of BU ECE faculty researchers are teaming up to work on a solution that will be environmentally sustainable ... and help to sustain AI's continued growth. More
Finding Coherence
Professor Venkataraman has been awarded $3.2M to parse and predict post-stroke aphasia recovery. More
Skyward Bound
The successful launch of Icarus, a liquid-fueled rocket designed and built by BU students. More
BU Engineers Without Borders builds clean, accessible water source for Kenyan school
Imagine walking 40 laps around a track to fetch clean water. During Kenya’s dry season, students at Ogiek Kwaanza Secondary School travel six to eight kilometers to do just that — a routine that disrupts class time. The school faces a high dropout rate due to the dangers students may face on these walks. This past summer, four members of the Boston University chapter of Engineers Without Borders — Clara Armon, Chaney Finkeldei, Urvi Chakravarthy and Omar Elhussini — worked with the school, located in Tinet, Kenya, to help make clean water more accessible. More
Research Program Helps Bridge the Opportunity Gap for Young Engineers
When Perales came to Boston University to study electrical and biomedical engineering—the first in her family to go to college—she looked for ways to have an immediate impact. This past year, Perales applied for a BU College of Engineering–affiliated program, Research Engineering and Mentoring-Includes (REM-Includes), designed to give first-generation and low-income college students their first taste of lab time. More
BU Appoints Ken Lutchen to Top Research Job
Boston University has appointed pioneering biomedical engineer and experienced higher education leader Kenneth Lutchen as its new vice president and associate provost for research. He will lead BU’s $500 million research enterprise, which spurs new knowledge and impactful advances. In the past year alone, BU researchers have launched a global AI-powered infectious diseases monitoring tool, engineered devices that could improve cancer treatment, and landed a telescope on the moon. More
Laying A Course for Crash Prevention
New Professor Yigong Hu Aims to Solve System Performance Woes More
ENG Faculty and Students Power BU to the Moon
At 2 am on a Sunday in March 2025, a dozen scientists were gathered in a College of Engineering lab at Boston University in a tense, nail-biting silence. Almost 240,000 miles away, a shiny, golden spacecraft was slowly dropping toward the moon’s surface after traveling through space for 40 days. Mounted on top was a specially designed telescope, built at BU and known as LEXI, sent to capture views of Earth’s protective magnetic field that have never been seen before. More
CAREER Award for AI Intermediary
Professor Kayhan Batmanghelich has received a CAREER Award to create an AI system to translate between medical AI systems and clinicians. More
Is AI Slowing Climate Progress? It’s Complicated
For over a decade, Ayse Coskun has studied the relationship between electric grids and data centers—the sprawling warehouses that house equipment necessary to maintain the internet and computing infrastructure. In years past, grid operators have been able to plan for and meet energy demands from data centers—but then artificial intelligence (AI) boomed. More
CAREER Award Supports Accessible AI for All
Professor Eshed Ohn-Bar's CAREER Award-winning new project to build AI personalized to individual access needs. More