Professor Vivek Goyal Wins Best Paper Award for “Quantile Sensing”
Professor Vivek Goyal and collaborators have received a Best Paper Award at an IEEE ICIP 2026 workshop for “Towards Quantile Sensing,” a new way for sensors to summarize their data using far less memory and bandwidth.
Professor Josh Semeter Receives ONR Award to Clear the View for Over-the-Horizon Radar
Professor Josh Semeter has received a three-year, $550,000 Office of Naval Research award to predict and clear the radar clutter caused by turbulence in the upper atmosphere.
A Simple, Noninvasive Way to Assess Collagen in the Skin of Scleroderma Patients
“This is the first time SFDI has been applied to scleroderma.”
Christos Cassandras is Engineering Safer Vehicles
Christos Cassandras (SE, ECE) has spent more than 40 years studying how computers and machines make decisions. Lately, his work has focused on a problem nearly every driver knows well: sitting at a red light with no cross traffic in sight, wondering why it takes so long for the light to turn green. He is […]
Tiny Water Droplets Can Ground Billion-Dollar Supersonic Vehicles. BU Engineers Are Working to Change That
Rockets, regularly blasted into space by companies such as SpaceX and agencies including NASA, are meticulously designed to withstand the harshest of environments. Engineers construct the bodies from heavy-duty aluminum-lithium and stainless steel alloys, but the equipment can be devastated by something as minuscule as pinpricks of water; as spacecraft sail through the atmosphere at supersonic speeds, a single droplet can hit with more force than a bullet, cutting directly through the metal or pitting it until it resembles the surface of the moon.
Three ENG faculty named William Fairfield Warren Professors
On September 23, Boston University President Melissa Gilliam and Provost Colin Duckett announced five new William Fairfield Warren professorships, three of whom are ENG faculty: David Boas, Ji-Xin Cheng, and Xin Zhang. Established in 2008, the professorship, named after the University’s first president, is awarded to senior faculty members who remain actively involved in research, […]
AI Prognostics with Pathologist-in-the-Loop
Batmanghelich joins effort to create AI models for trustworthy breast cancer evaluations.
At 2026 Catalyst Summit, A Focus on Everyday Health
“Our bodies are not working in snapshots. They are generating information continuously, and transmitting that information in signals. What has changed is our growing ability to detect those signals continuously.”
Major State Grant Advances BU Imaging Facilities
$1.58 million from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center will allow BU to add two high-speed, high-resolution microscopes to the Photonics Center, and more.
Ignition Awards for Research That Might Reduce Knee Pain, Propel Underwater Robots, and More
The innovative projects earned funding and support on their way to making the leap from the lab to the real world.