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Feb 28, 2022
Sternad awarded $3M NIH-MERIT Award for Human Control of Complex Objects
Dagmar Sternad, University Distinguished Professor of Biology, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Physics, and Core Faculty in the Institute for Experiential Robotics, has been awarded a five-year $3M Merit Award from the National Institutes of Health to investigate human sensorimotor control of dynamically complex objects.
Feb 25, 2022
Handling Both Routing and Caching Effectively
ECE Associate Professor Stratis Ioannidis and Professor Edmund Yeh were awarded a patent for “Joint routing and caching method for content delivery with optimality guarantees for arbitrary networks.”
Feb 25, 2022
Combined Overtone Resonators for the mmWave Spectrum
ECE Professor Matteo Rinaldi was awarded a patent for “Aluminum nitride combined overtone resonators for the mmWave spectrum.” Abstract Source: USPTO A resonator system is provided in which a combined overtone resonator device is excited with a two-dimensional mode of mechanical vibration in a cross sectional plane of a piezoelectric plate in response to an […]
Feb 16, 2022
Ostadabbas Receives NSF CAREER Grant for Early Detection of Autism
ECE Assistant Professor Sarah Ostadabbas was awarded a $600K NSF CAREER grant for “Learning Visual Representations of Motor Function in Infants as Prodromal Signs for Autism.”
Feb 14, 2022
Self-Powered Sensorial ‘Skin’ the Future of Motion and Gesture Recognition
Groundbreaking research on flexible photodetectors with computational powers by Canek Fuentes-Hernandez, associate professor, electrical and computer engineering (ECE), and Gregory D. Abowd, dean of the College of Engineering and professor of ECE, has been published in npj Flexible Electronics. The researchers developed a new approach to achieve motion and gesture recognition using arrays of thin and flexible organic photodetectors distributed in space.
Feb 08, 2022
Computer PhD Alum to Lead SAIL
Alumnus and Draper GEM Fellow Will Tomlinson, PhD’18, Computer Engineering, is named director of the Software and Application Innovation Lab (SAIL) at Boston University. Related News: Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Community Service Creating a Safer Way to Transmit Data Overcoming the Odds
Feb 07, 2022
Using 5G for Reliable Connectivity
ECE William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia explains the importance of wireless 5G service in broadcasting events like the Olympics.
Feb 01, 2022
Creating a Wireless Network Operating System
ECE William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia was awarded a patent for creating a “Distributed wireless network operating system.”