ECE PhD Interns on FPGA and Machine Learning
An internship at ALCF provides real world experience for Yang and Sanaullah By Shereen Abubakr (QST ’18) ECE PhD Students Chen Yang (ECE ’19) and Ahmed Sanaullah (ECE ’20) worked together while interning at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF). A highly regarded organization that offers a selective internship program, the ALCF provides supercomputing capabilities […]
Institute-incubated Research Leveraged for Major Google Research Award
The following article was published on the Hariri Institute’s website on Friday, March 16th, 2018. To see the complete list of 2017 award recipients, please visit Research at Google. What began as a small, Hariri Institute seed-funded research project to explore new methods for analyzing social media data has grown into a Google-sponsored, award-winning research endeavor. […]
Recognizing Undergraduate ECE Student for Machine Learning and Cloud Computing Research
Anthony Byrne Receives MIT Best Lighting Talk Award By Shereen Abubakr (QST ’18) ECE undergraduate Anthony Byrne (ENG ’19) received the Best Lightning Talk Award at the 2017 IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference. The aim of the conference is to bring undergraduates from around the world together to advance technology by presenting, discussing, and […]
Jing Zhang
While at BU, Jing Zhang earned a PhD in Systems Engineering. Year of Graduation: 2017 Current Title: Research Scientist Company: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) I am working as a Research Scientist in the Data Analytics group at MERL. The focus of our research is on innovative high-performance algorithms that can be applied to various product […]
Greater Than the Sum of Their Parts
Undergraduate Researchers and Mentors Move ENG Forward By Sara Cody Ribbons of neon light undulate in the northern night sky, a technicolor display of pinks, greens, yellows, blues and reds against a backdrop of stars. They have captured the human imagination for millennia: the ancient Greeks thought they marked the gates of the home world […]
Mr. Clean
Using LED technology he helped develop at BU, alum aims to address complex global health and hygiene problems By Sara Cody, originally published in the Fall 2016 issue of ENGineer magazine. Germs are everywhere. Lurking on our hands, in our water, in our kitchens and even in our hospitals. According to the Centers for Disease […]
Toshi Nishimura Wins the James B. Macelwane Medal
Nishimura Joins ECE with Research Momentum By Amy Pollard (GRS, ’19) Toshi Nishimura joins ECE and the Center for Space Physics as Research Associate Professor and brings unique expertise and insight to the Department. Dr. Nishimura received the James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in December for his research on […]
BU and Red Hat Forge $5 Million Partnership
Five-Year Research Arrangement Promises Mutual Benefits By Art Jahnke. This story originally appeared in BU Today. Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source enterprise software, is joining in a five-year-long partnership with Boston University, an arrangement aimed at advancing research into emerging and translational technologies, such as cloud computing and big data platforms. The collaboration, celebrated […]
Ruofan Wang
While at BU, Ruofan Wang earned a PhD in Materials Science & Engineering. Year of Graduation: 2017 Current title: Postdoctoral Fellow Company: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. My research at Berkeley Lab focuses on developing metal-supported solid oxide fuel/electrolyzer cells, which can […]