ECE Students Are Societal Engineers
As part of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s Senior Design Capstone these student teams created real-world solutions to real-world issues, working as a new kind of engineer:
The Societal Engineer®
The Powers of Machine Learning in Amazon Alexa and Music Generation
Every day millions of people look something up online. It’s become a habit, a part of our lives that we take for granted– and we can thank machine learning for that. Machine learning is a type of artificial intelligence that works with computer algorithms. It uses data and statistics to create predictions and it tries […]
How to Create Safe, Energy-Efficient Buildings in a Post-Covid World
BU Innovators Address New Requirements of Commercial Real Estate by Maya Bhat & Maureen Stanton, CISE Staff Smart building technology has been a growing trend in the commercial real estate sector to help building owners and other stakeholders automate processes, reduce costs, boost energy efficiency, and improve the comfort of tenants. In a post-covid world, […]
Egele Wins the 2020 Early Career Research Award
ECE Professor Manuel Egele was awarded the 2020 Early Career Research Award by the College of Engineering.
Yazicigil on Track to Monitor the GI Tract
Assistant Professor Rabia Yazicigil was a keynote speaker at the Nature Symposium in Spain, which was covered in the Spanish media through a press conference and national television.
ECE is Helping Fight Coronavirus With Computing
By Colbi Edmonds Boston University ECE Professor Orran Krieger and PI for the Mass Open Cloud (MOC) is part of a team collaborating with the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) to create a website that will help the fight against COVID-19. Intel and Red Hat, MOC partners, are also partnering on the effort. […]
Goyal Wins IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award
Boston University ECE professor Vivek Goyal was awarded a 2019 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award for his work.
ECE Alumna, Rosalind Wynne, advances fiber optic research
Boston University alumna Rosalind Wynne (ENG’01, ENG’05) is an award-winning African-American engineer.
BU ECE Students receive Best Paper Award at the ASIA Conference on Computer and Communication Security 2018
Realizing that the correlation between malware and HPC traces does not establish causation, Boston University graduate students Boyou Zhou, Rasoul Jahanshahi and Anmol Gupta, under the supervision of Professors Manuel Egele and Ajay Joshi, evaluated works that propose this HPC-based methodology for malware detection.
Innovation in Ideation
Natural disasters have plagued civilization since the beginning, and although our understanding of them has improved over the centuries, too many people still suffer at the hands of environmental unrest. Togo (a country in western Africa), for example, faces annual difficulties with flooding during the monsoon season. Unfortunately, humanitarian aid functions on a linear schedule, […]