BU Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Catch up with our accomplished faculty, vote for Professor Ünlü's patent in advance of Wednesday's BIPLA Invented Here! event, and don't forget to watch Professor Coskun's TED talk: bu.edu/eng/2026/02/27…

Watch Professor Ayșe Coskun's talk, "The story you're not hearing about AI data centers," at TED AI in San Francisco this past October! ted.com/talks/ay_e_cos…

New BU ECE Assistant Professor Harry Chao centers his machine learning and computer vision expertise around recognizing & working with the imperfect, dynamic nature of that ultimate data source ... "real life." bu.edu/eng/2026/01/27…

David Lake, one of BU ECE's two newly-minted Assistant Professors, is determined to bring the promise of quantum computing closer to fruition via the development of cutting-edge quantum networking architectures: bu.edu/eng/2026/01/27…

Read more about this prestigious honor here: bu.edu/eng/2026/01/14…

Congratulations to Professor Siddharth Ramachandran, recipient of the 2026 G. G. Stokes Award in Optical Polarization from SPIE! spie.org/news/siddharth…

The National Academy of Inventors is proud to announce the 2025 Class of Fellow inductees! This distinguished group includes 169 U.S. Fellows and 16 International Fellows, representing 127 research universities, government agencies, and non-profit institutions around the world. Together, they hold more than 5,300 U.S. patents, with their groundbreaking work spanning fields such as quantum computing, artificial intelligence, regenerative medicine, and more. They join a global community of NAI Fellows — now 2,253 strong — who collectively hold over 86,000 U.S. patents and 20,000 licensed technologies. These exceptional inventors will be honored at the 15th Annual Conference of the National Academy of Inventors, taking place June 1-4, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. Join us in celebrating these trailblazing innovators. Learn more about the NAI Fellows Class of 2025 here: academyofinventors.org/nai-welcomes-2… #NAI #NAIFellow

Congratulations to Professor Ji-Xin Cheng on his election to 2025 @AcadofInventors Fellow! This prestigious honor recognizes his "significant impact on the innovation ecosystem, economic development, and society." bu.edu/eng/2025/12/11…

Professor Luca Dal Negro's joint paper in Physical Review B, "Nonlinear quantum electrodynamics of epsilon-near-zero nanostructures," was selected as an Editor's Suggestion. bu.edu/eng/2025/11/24…

At least one issue still unites many United States politicians on both sides of the aisle: the global race for dominance in the semiconductor industry. Check out Professor Coskun's Q&A about how Boston University is stepping up, and the new BU CHIPS page! bu.edu/articles/2025/…

Congratulations to Professor David Bishop, recipient of a 2026 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize from @APSphysics for groundbreaking contributions to the field. aps.org/funding-recogn…

Professor Vivek Goyal’s varied research has the common theme of using physics and mathematics to expand perception past the biological capacity of the human sensory suite. Two new projects, recently funded by the NSF, are no exception. bu.edu/eng/2025/10/31…

Quantum Research, Getting Warmer: read about Professor Anna Swan's paradigm-shifting collaboration, published in Nature earlier this year: bu.edu/eng/2025/10/27…

Congratulations to first author and current BU ECE Ph.D. student, Farbin Fayza, as well as to Cansu Demirkiran (Ph.D.'24), Professor Ajay Joshi, and colleagues, on this timely recent publication in Nature Communications Physics! doi.org/10.1038/s42005…

Professor Ajay Joshi is exploring the development of novel electro-photonic computing architectures that could perform as well or better than conventional electronic GPUs, with support from the NSF. bu.edu/eng/2025/10/14…

A living Internet of Things: Professors Rabia Yazicigil and Douglas Densmore team up to characterize Cyber-Secure Biological Systems, a new class of hybrid devices, and invite participation from colleagues across disciplines: bu.edu/eng/2025/10/10…

Professor Luca Dal Negro has received a $600K grant from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory (DEVCOM ARL) for a project aimed at new approaches to improving single-photon detection. bu.edu/eng/2025/10/07…

Professor Ayse Coskun discusses data center energy consumption on a new episode of the @PBS program #EnergySwitch: bu.edu/eng/2025/10/07…

“I hope that this award will help us decode the chemistry of life in the next five years!” - Professor Ji-Xin Cheng, on the subject of his recent $2.8M NIH MIRA renewal grant for the development of vibrational photothermal microscopy. bu.edu/eng/2025/10/03…

With the support of a $380K grant from the NSF, Professor Emiliano Dall’Anese is working to design the novel optimization methods required for complex energy infrastructures under increasingly volatile user behavior. bu.edu/eng/2025/09/25…