Faculty Honors | College of Engineering

The Image of Accomplishment

in *NEWS, ECE - Data Science and Intelligent Systems, ECE - Imaging and Optical Science, ECE Faculty, ECE Research, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Janusz Konrad

Professor Janusz Konrad has been elected to the rank of 2025 Fellow of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) for his contributions to visual motion analysis and video processing.

Tagged: computer vision, COSSY, EURASIP, Faculty Honors, Janusz Konrad, professional society, Signal Processing, society fellow, video processing, visual motion analysis

Honored from Within

in *NEWS, *Research, Ayse Coskun, David Starobinski, ECE - Bio-ECE and Digital Health, ECE - Data Science and Intelligent Systems, ECE - Imaging and Optical Science, ECE - Mobile/Cloud Computing and Cybersecurity, ECE - Photonics, Electronics, and Nanotechnology, ECE Faculty, ECE Research, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Eshed Ohn-Bar, Gianluca Stringhini, Kayhan Batmanghelich, Lei Tian, Roberto Paiella, Venkatesh Saligrama, Wenchao Li

College and University Shower Awards on ECE Faculty

Tagged: BU AI Research Resource Program, BU-AIRR, Dean's Infrastructure Award, Early Career Research Award, Early Career Research Excellence Award, Eshed Ohn-Bar, Faculty Honors, Hariri Institute, Roberto Paiella

Eye-Opening Contributions

in *NEWS, ECE - Imaging and Optical Science, ECE Faculty, ECE Research, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Lei Tian, Michelle Sander

ECE Professors Michelle Sander and Lei Tian have been elected to Optica’s 2025 class of Fellows.

Tagged: computational imaging, Faculty Honors, Lei Tian, Michelle Sander, Optica, Optica Fellow, optics, Photonics, ultrafast lasers, ultrafast optics

Presidential Honors

in *NEWS, Biomedical Engineering, ECE - Imaging and Optical Science, ECE - Photonics, Electronics, and Nanotechnology, ECE Faculty, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Michelle Sander

Michelle Sander is the recipient of a PECASE, the US government’s highest honor for early-career researchers.

Tagged: awards, Faculty Honors, Michelle Sander, PECASE

A Commitment to Service In His Field

in *NEWS, ECE Faculty, Electrical and Computer Engineering, W. Clem Karl

Professor W. Clem Karl has been elected to serve as IEEE’s 2025 Vice President of Publication Services and Products.

Tagged: Clem Karl, Faculty Honors, IEEE, professional society, service, W. Clem Karl

Ramachandran Takes the Reins

in *NEWS, ECE - Imaging and Optical Science, ECE Faculty, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Siddharth Ramachandran

ECE professor appointed Editor-in-Chief of top optics journal.

Tagged: academic journal, Editor-In-Chief, Faculty Honors, Optica, Optics Express, Siddharth Ramachandran

Innovation Leans In

in *NEWS, Bobak Nazer, ECE Faculty, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor Nazer Receives 2024 Gitner Family Award for “flipped classroom” model for teaching foundational engineering course.

Tagged: awards, Bobak Nazer, curriculum, Faculty Honors, Gitner Family Award, pedagogy, teaching

Siddharth Ramachandran Joins Ranks of AAAS Fellows

in ECE - Photonics, Electronics, and Nanotechnology, ECE Faculty, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Siddharth Ramachandran

The Distinguished Professor of Engineering is being honored for “pioneering contributions to the generation, control, and propagation of singular states of light, enabling applications spanning classical and quantum communications, imaging, and high-power lasers.”

Tagged: AAAS, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Faculty Honors, Siddharth Ramachandran

Early Career Excellence: Professor Rabia Yazicigil Recognized By NSF and BU College of Engineering

in *NEWS, ECE - Bio-ECE and Digital Health, ECE - Mobile/Cloud Computing and Cybersecurity, ECE Faculty, ECE Research, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rabia Yazicigil

Professor Rabia Yazicigil’s outstanding contributions have been doubly recognized, with the recent conferral of a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award and an Early Career Excellence in Research Award from the BU College of Engineering.

Tagged: Cyber-Secure Biological Systems, Early Career Research Excellence Award, Faculty Honors, microelectronics, NSF CAREER Award, Rabia Yazicigil

Professor Ji-Xin Cheng receives SPIE Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award

in *NEWS, ECE - Bio-ECE and Digital Health, ECE - Imaging and Optical Science, ECE - Photonics, Electronics, and Nanotechnology, ECE Faculty, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ji-Xin Cheng

Professor Ji-Xin Cheng is the recipient of the 2024 SPIE Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award. He earned this prestigious award for the “invention and commercialization of mid-infrared photothermal microscopy that allows highly sensitive dye-free bond-selective imaging of living cells and organisms.” The mIRage system, based on Cheng’s IP on mid-infrared photothermal microscopy and produced by Photothermal Spectroscopy Corp at Santa Barbara, has been delivered to over 100 research labs in 15 countries worldwide.

Tagged: biophotonics, Faculty Honors, Innovation, Ji-Xin Cheng, medical imaging, microscopy, optics, photothermal microscopy, SPIE