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.
Envisioning an Imperfect World
New ECE Professor Harry Chao’s Approach to Machine Learning Meets Reality Where It Is by A.J. Kleber Outside the tidy binaries of digital computation, the world is a messy place. Few things in life are clearly observable and predictable, whether you’re looking at individual human behavior, traffic, organisms, or the weather. This is a truth […]
Next-Level Networking
New Professor David Lake and the quantum architecture of the future.
BOTLAB – On a Winning Streak
BME Professor Darren Roblyer was awarded 3 prestigious R01 awards from the National Institute of Health.
Another Year of Gold for BU iGEM
A year-end toast to the gold-winning undergrads of BU’s iGEM team.