Prizes for Pithy Pitches
In the Three Minute Thesis Competition, doctoral students learn to distill their dissertation research into a short, compelling presentation for a general audience.
A Retinal Prosthesis Might Restore Sight for Millions with Age-Related Macular Degeneration
The technology offers hope to people with an incurable disease that’s one of the leading causes of blindness.
AIMBE College of Fellows Inducts Three BU ENG Faculty into Class of 2026
Yannis Paschalidis, Shannon Stott, and Darren Roblyer are honored with a distinction reserved for the top two percent of researchers in the biomedical engineering fields.
What Is the Cocktail Party Problem—and Can This Research Solve It?
Boas and Sen are combining expertise from neuroscience, engineering, photonics, and computer science to better understand how our brains sift through different noises.
A History of Innovation at Boston University
In the 150 years since a BU professor invented the telephone, plenty of other BU-bred inventions have made profound and lasting impacts across society.
Alfred Hero Delivers 2026 DeLisi Lecture
“Signal processing should play a role equal in the canon to other methods promulgated in AI that typically don’t have performance guarantees.”
Preventative Measures for Online Scams
Professor Gianluca Stringhini and Pujan Paudel (PhD’25) received a Distinguished Paper Award at NDSS 2025 for an effective new system designed to identify fraudulent websites.
WHO and Zaman Join Forces to Help Populations at Risk from Antimicrobial Resistance
Refugees and asylum seekers face a heightened risk of deadly infection. The World Health Organization is working with Muhammad Zaman and the BU Center on Forced Displacement to address the problem.
Cheng Named NAI Fellow
With more than 30 patents to his name, precision medicine pioneer Ji-Xin Cheng has been named to this year’s class of fellows of the National Academy of Inventors.
From Selfish Driving to Social Optimality
In a recent Nature report, titled “Smart cities drive into the future,” Christos Cassandras was interviewed and shared his proposal for a networked environment in which every vehicle shares data with another vehicle or a coordinator regarding position, velocity, and destination to optimize routing across the entire city.