Levine Professorship for Tianyu Wang
Pioneer in computational brain imaging earns one of this year’s BU Career Development Professorships
Assistant Professor Tianyu Wang (ECE) has garnered the 2024 Peter J. Levine Career Development Professorship, endowed by Peter J. Levine (ENG’83).
Wang combines physics and optical principles with computer science to gain insights on how to engineer better computing, sensing, and imaging systems—like figuring out how to deliver detailed deep-tissue medical images of the human brain.
“His work is important in pushing the physical limits of computation and the design of advanced sensing hardware,” says Wang’s nominator, Elise Morgan, ENG dean ad interim and Maysarah K. Sukkar Professor of Engineering Design and Innovation, and he is “already off to an excellent start” since joining Boston University in early 2024.
Four other BU faculty earned Career Development Professorships this year, including Brian Cleary, a Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences professor who also holds appointments in biology and biomedical engineering. The high-caliber awards, given annually by BU’s Office of the Provost, recognizes “talented junior educators emerging as future leaders within their respective fields.”