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CONTENTS • FALL 2018

The Era of the Single-Discipline Engineer Is Over

FEATURES

BY DEAN KENNETH R. LUTCHEN

Visionary for Vision

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Engineering Education

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engineering schools, we had not yet considered how to prepare students for the data-driven economy. When I informally explored other engineering schools, the preponderance were leaving data-science education siloed in computer science or computer engineering departments only, or perhaps creating a new—but again, siloed— degree in data science alone. In my opinion, this is a mistake.

So, together with the college’s academic leadership, we built basic data science into every one of our undergraduate curricula (see story on page 3). Starting this fall, all students will take the same courses in Computational Linear Algebra, and a newly designed course called Probability, Statistics and Data Science for Engineers. These courses will give students the basic tools to analyze huge data sets and an introduction to machine learning. Similarly, we eliminated some older upper-level electives and replaced them with three new ones: Introduction to Machine Learning; Smart and Connected Systems; and Introduction to Robotics. Students from all degree programs can take these courses and have them count toward their bachelor’s degree.

Returning to my advisory board meeting, the point I was trying to make is that the very nature of modern innovation and product development is multidisciplinary; recognizing this, we are building it into the college’s DNA. As we make it integral to our undergraduate curriculum, it is also folded into our research, as exemplified in this issue’s cover story and in the newly established Center for Autonomous and Robotics Systems (see story on page 4).

We need engineers to figure out how to engage data scientists to build technological systems and improve our quality of life. That begins with engineers who have at least a basic understanding of the principles of data science and how they can be applied to real-world engineering problems that engage their engineering disciplines and others.

This requires us to look at educating engineers in a new way and confirms that, indeed, the era of the single-discipline engineer is over.

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The very nature of modern innovation and product development is multidisciplinary; recognizing this, we are building it into the college’s DNA.

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y recent Dean’s Advisory Board meeting was held with my counterparts in the College of Arts & Sciences (CAS), which houses the University’s computer science program. We were talking about the explosive growth of data analysis throughout the economy when, in an effort to impress me, a CAS board member and a computer science alum said that the electric car maker Tesla is hiring more computer scientists than engineers. I immediately said that while this may be true, I was also certain that if you locked 100 of Tesla’s best computer scientists in a room, no matter how long you gave them, I am certain they would never emerge with a car.

Today’s innovation requires the convergence of multiple disciplines, both among engineers and between engineers and professionals in other fields. The explosion in data science fuels the growth in computer science, but computer scientists aren’t the only ones concerned with this field.

Engineers of all stripes need to understand how vast quantities of data can be used to design and improve all kinds of products and systems.

About two years ago we were already seeing how marketing and retail were using business analytics, but a new wave of innovation was rapidly emerging in which data science’s impact would be inextricably linked with innovative technology systems. Examples include autonomous ground and air vehicles; home healthcare sensors and systems; and systems to insure urban function, efficiency and resilience in areas such as traffic, parking, crime control and emergency response.

Advances in artificial intelligence connected with the internet of things rely on processing vast troves of data and can drive real-time manufacturing processes, massively increasing creativity in product design, and perhaps even personalizing manufacturing. What are we doing to prepare our students for this new, data-driven economy?

It occurred to me two years ago that while each of our engineering programs requires a statistics course for undergraduates, it was probably the same course I had taken in college. Like other

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engineering leadership advisory board John E. Abele Founder & Director, Boston Scientific

Amit Jain ’85,’88 President and CEO, Prysm Inc.

Anton Papp ’90 Partner, Catapult Advisors

Adel Al-Saleh ’87 Group Chief Executive, Northgate Information Solutions

Dean L. Kamen, Hon.’06 President & Founder, DEKA Research & Development Corp.

Sharad Rastogi ’91 Vice President, Marketing, Cisco Systems

Nizar Dalloul ’83, GRS’87 Chairman and CEO, Comium Group

Ezra D. Kucharz ’90 Chief Business Officer, DraftKings Inc.

Roger A. Dorf ’70 Former Vice President, Wireless Group, Cisco Systems

Antoinette Leatherberry ‘85 Principal, Deloitte Consulting

Brian Dunkin ’85 Medical Director, Houston Methodist Institute for Technology, Innovation & Education Joseph Frassica, MED’88 Chief Medical & Innovation Officer, Phillips Healthcare Ronald G. Garriques ’86 CEO and Chairman, Gee Holdings LLC Joseph Healey ’88 Senior Managing Director, HealthCor Management LP Jon Hirschtick Founder & Chairman, OnShape Inc. William I. Huyett Chief Operation Officer, Ironwood Pharmaceuticals

Peter Levine ’83 General Partner, Andreesen Horowitz Nick Lippis ’84,’89 President, Lippis Enterprises Inc. Andrew Marsh CEO, LG Fuel Systems Kathleen McLaughlin ‘87 President and Chief Sustainability Officer Walmart Foundation Rao Mulpuri ’92,’96 CEO, View, Inc. Girish Navani ’91 CEO, eClinicalWorks

George M. Savage ’81 Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer, Proteus Digital Health Binoy K. Singh, MD’89 Associate Chief of Cardiology, Lenox Hill Hospital, North Shore LIJ John Tegan ’88 President and CEO, Communication Technology Services LLC William Weiss ’83,’97 Vice President & General Manager, General Dynamics-C4 Systems Emeritus Board Members Richard D. Reidy, Questrom’82 Former President and CEO, Progress Software Corp.

Venkatesh Narayanamurti Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology & Public Policy; Former Dean, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Harvard University

eng west coast alumni leadership council Christopher Brousseau ’91 Global Commercial Director, Accenture Inc.— Spend Management Services

Bettina Briz-Himes ’86 Director, Technology Alliances, GoPro

Sandip Patidar ’90 Managing Partner, Titanium Capital Partners Sanjay Prasad ’86,’87 Principal, Prasad IP

Gregory Cordrey ’88 Partner, Jeffer Mangles Butler & Mitchell LLP

Kent W. Hughes ’79 Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Verizon

Claudia Arango Dunsby ’92 Vice President, Operations, Hybridge IT

Michele Iacovone CGS’86,’89 Vice President, Chief Architect, Intuit Inc.

Vanessa Feliberti ’93 Partner, General Engineering Manager, Microsoft

Tyler Kohn ’98 Head of Platform Technology, Mythic AI

Gregory Seiden ’80 Vice President, Applications Integration, Oracle Corp.

Richard Fuller ’88 Microlocation Lead, OmniTrail Technologies

Yitao Liao ’10,’11 Chief Technology Officer, RayVio Corporation

Dylan P. Steeg ’95 Director of Business Development, Skytree Inc.

Timothy Gardner ’00 Founder & CEO, Riffyn Inc.

Martin Lynch ’82 Chief Operating Officer, Sunlink Inc.

Francis Tiernan ’70 President, Anritsu Company (Retired)

Roger A. Hajjar ’88 Chief Technical Officer, Prysm Inc.

Daniel C. Maneval ’82 Vice President, Pharmacology & Safety Assessment, Halozyme Therapeutics

Joseph Winograd ’95,’97 Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, Verance Corp

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roduct developers used to depend on a primary engineering discipline to realize a design. For instance, automobile manufacturers used to largely rely on mechanical engineers to design their products. But more recently, companies have needed to hire a blend of software, computer, electrical, mechanical and systems engineers to build cars, particularly electric ones. And increasingly, the most innovative products rely both on an interdisciplinary approach and on the use of massive amounts of data to support product development and operation.

Recognizing that data science is playing an increasingly central role throughout the economy—not just in cars, but in healthcare, urban design, the internet of things and many other fields—Boston University (BU) College of Engineering is transforming its approach to undergraduate education. Beginning this fall, all students will take courses that will impart foundational knowledge in data science, and they will be able to apply those tools and techniques to some of today’s cutting-edge, multidisciplinary technologies.

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“The era of the single-discipline engineer is over,” says Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen. “Most innovation now requires multiple engineering disciplines interacting with large data sets. Making sure our students are literate in data analysis is fully in keeping with our mission to create Societal Engineers. I have heard from leaders in industry that data analysis is becoming a key attribute they are looking for when hiring engineers, and one not often found. Having this knowledge, Boston University engineers will have the tools to improve society for many years to come.”

In the fall of 2016, a college-wide task force was given the charge of reviewing and recommending revisions to the undergraduate curriculum to ensure that graduates are better prepared to engage in the emerging digital and maker economies. The task force recommended changes, effective this fall, that include data science as part of every undergraduate’s education.

“We are one of the first engineering schools nationally that has designed a curriculum for which students in every major will take an interdisciplinary, data-driven approach,” Lutchen adds. “We recognize it as essential and we are aware that in the future every engineering discipline, from mechanical to biomedical to computer, will intersect with data science.”

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College Establishes New Robotics Center he College of Engineering has established the new, interdisciplinary Center for Autonomous and Robotics Systems (CARS) that will build upon the expertise and experience of the current faculty and advanced facilities.

Professor Calin Belta (ME, SE, ECE), who heads up the BU Robotics Laboratory and has been appointed the center’s inaugural director, says that CARS is a natural expansion of the Robotics Lab; the center will allow the scope of research to broaden with increased funding, the addition of outside collaborators and increased internal collaboration. The Robotics Lab will transform from a facility for experimental research to a multifunctional center with space to design robots that can perform complex physical tasks—like moving objects around—and also open up more room for students.

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to quickly analyze the data can help take the trial-and-error out of the design process and produce products more quickly and efficiently.

In another related curriculum change, all freshmen will design and build a product—whether physical or digital—as part of the Introduction to Programming and Introduction to Engineering modules. Little points out that this will help build a stronger connection between the challenging firstyear coursework and what students will do after graduation.

“This reflects what is going on in the maker world,” he says, “and our Engineering Product Innovation Center allows us to bring this to all students. This will transform the freshman year. Our students come to us wanting to build things and we need to keep that alive.”

The new curriculum will apply to all students. In addition to incoming freshmen, current students who have not yet taken linear algebra or probability and statistics will take the new courses that include data science.

“They need this now,” Lutchen says. “The next wave of innovations that address our societal challenges and life quality need a workforce comfortable in the era of big data and interdisciplinarity.” —michael seele

The center will focus on three main research application areas: the science of autonomy; robotic vehicles and manipulators; and microbiological robotics. “As one part of CARS, we want to create a center of excellence for autonomy by involving industry and academic partners locally, nationally and internationally,” Belta notes.

All of these applications focus on the growing ambition to bring artificial intelligence (AI) into the physical world.

Although machine learning has allowed for the creation of some great innovations, Belta believes that neural networks are still not well understood. To bring AI into the physical world means building autonomous machines like self-driving cars, but there is still uncertainty as to how that car would behave in a safety-critical environment.

That is one of the large issues Belta hopes to tackle by establishing CARS. “One focus of ours will be on all the connections between robotics and biology,” he says. He hopes to collaborate with the Biological Design Center (BDC), an internal interdisciplinary

center working in synthetic biology and cellular engineering; he and his team already have external grants related to those fields through their interests in microbiological robotics. One project Belta is involved in is developing micronscale robots that can organize living cells that contain synthetic genetic circuits using magnetic fields—the cells can then be triggered to perform their synthetic functions chemically or using light. The hope is that the entire process could be automated in the future to build engineered tissues or organs from stem cells.

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credit Probability, Statistics and Data Science for Engineers course will replace the separate and distinct probability and statistics courses that had been offered by each department. This new course will explicitly include the tools and techniques necessary to analyze huge data sets, and an introduction to machine learning, which is becoming a large part of autonomous systems.

In addition, three 400-level elective courses—Introduction to Machine Learning, Smart and Connected Systems, and Introduction to Robotics—will be offered. Each builds on the data science foundation and is open to students in all majors.

“Typically, engineering students are not expected to have this data science foundation,” says Associate Dean for Educational Initiatives Thomas Little. “Our new curriculum introduces them to mathematical concepts that allow them to appreciate the analytical capabilities provided by contemporary large-scale computing.”

Senior Associate Dean for Academic Programs Solomon Eisenberg added that the goal of the new curriculum is to give students a foundational understanding that will prepare

them to integrate data science with engineering systems on the job or in a graduate program.

“We live in an information-rich society,” notes Eisenberg, a professor of biomedical engineering. “We need to give students the ability to understand what is happening in this emerging area and go anywhere with it. This adds another layer of tools to the toolkit of an engineer.”

Data analytics and data-driven technological systems are playing a central role in many rapidly emerging technologies, such as smart cities and self-driving vehicles, notes Little, a professor of electrical and computer engineering.

“Cyber-physical systems are producing and consuming massive amounts of data, and safety is often critical. We need to be sure our graduates are prepared to use these new analytical techniques to tackle these modern challenges,” he says.

Engineers in all disciplines are dealing with increasingly large data sets, whether processing data from in-home medical sensing, developing drug molecules targeting specific microbes, designing systems that will allow swarms of robots to behave predictably, or simply making cities function better. Being able

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common laboratory practice, growing microbes in specific conditions has been performed for decades and is at the heart of drug discovery, systems and synthetic biology, and the study of evolution on a molecular scale. But its own evolution has been left behind even throughout the boom of recent technological advances that have dramatically revolutionized biology. Current technology confines scientists and makes them place limitations on the scale or design of a study.

Now, with the development of a do-it-yourself (DIY) framework named eVOLVER, Assistant Professor Ahmad ‘Mo’ Khalil (BME) is hoping to disrupt that long-standing experimental compromise. The work has been published as the cover story of the July issue of Nature Biotechnology.

Standard techniques for cell growth can be scaled up to grow large numbers of cultures at the same time, but culture conditions cannot be precisely controlled or customized. Technologies such as bioreactors allow for precise control over certain conditions, like temperature, but are very costly to parallelize and it is difficult to extend the technology beyond exactly what it was designed to do. An automated platform constructed cheaply and entirely in the lab, eVOLVER can continuously monitor and control hundreds of individual cultures in real time.

“Right now scientists build their experiments around the equipment that is available to them,” Khalil explains. “We wanted to flip that concept on its head to allow scientists to customize their equipment based on the experiments they want to run.” eVOLVER is also designed to connect to a network so that scientists can coordinate and run experiments over the internet. “I no longer have to be in the lab at odd hours if I am running an experiment,” says Brandon Wong, graduate student and co-inventor of eVOLVER. “I can monitor the progress and conditions in real time on my phone and if I need to modify anything, I can do it from home instead of trekking into the lab.”

To demonstrate its versatility, Khalil, along with Wong and collaborators, performed three distinctly different growth experiments with eVOLVER that otherwise would be very challenging for any other system. The first demonstrated how eVOLVER could be used to evolve cells in the laboratory in high throughput and over long periods of time under many different, specific conditions. Second, they demonstrated that eVOLVER can be used to systematically test growth phenotypes

of large cell libraries in fluctuating environments. The third and final set of experiments displayed the real-time versatility of eVOLVER by programming it to carry out complex fluid manipulations to mix and transfer media, experimental liquids or cultures, a capability that has not been available to current continuous culture systems. eVOLVER was made possible with the development of technologies such as 3D printing and DIY software and hardware that did not all exist in such an accessible way just a few years ago. The device consists of three modules: the smart sleeve; a fluidic control module; and a modular hardware infrastructure. The smart sleeve is what monitors and controls the culture growth with printed circuit board sensors and actuators along with other electronic parts in an aluminum casing tube, attached to a 3D-printed mount. Circuit boards can be removed or added based on which experimental parameters are needed; a lab could program a fluctuating temperature control onto a board and only plug that into eVOLVER when the experiment needs that temperature control function.

There are currently multiple beta-testers with their own eVOLVERs across the country and as the network grows, Khalil hopes that the many potential uses of eVOLVER will be showcased. “This could be a powerful platform to study the microbiome, or to evolve proteins in the laboratory in massively parallel fashion to generate new activities,” he says.

“It also supports our work in synthetic biology by allowing us to test and characterize synthetic genetic circuits in a more efficient and more experimentally robust way.” Creating a large network of users could lead to open-source protocols and data, which, in turn, can lead to increased reproducibility.

Laboratory equipment can be a financial burden on researchers and many are left with the choice of whether to buy one device over another—and sometimes the device a researcher needs doesn’t even exist. As a do-it-yourself, inexpensive and open-source platform, eVOLVER puts experimental design back into the hands of the scientists and their grant money back in their pockets.

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CAR-T system would let doctors deactivate the entire treatment in case the side effects became too severe.

While the original CAR-T can be compared to a charger for a cell phone—one piece that only allows one device to be connected—the SUPRA CAR-T can be compared to two AC adapters that allow for multiple, customizable attachments that can be removed and exchanged at any time. The three features that make SUPRA CAR-T unique are all driven by this ability to split the system into two parts in two ways. And although these three features aren’t completely new in the development of new CAR-T systems, the combination of them in one system is.

The normal immune system requires T-cells to sense two targets coming from an invader cell before it attacks it, and SUPRA CAR-T works in the same way. Before SUPRA CAR-T attacks cancer cells, it needs to sense that both targets are present on the cell. If you have a lightning cable and a micro-USB cable plugged into the adapters, both devices would need to connect to activate the killer T-cell response. If only one is present, the system isn’t activated.

SUPRA CAR-T also splits the T-cell from the target-sensing portion of the system—the adapter from the cable. The target on cancer cells is called an antigen; whichever antigen is chosen is sought out by an antibody on the CAR-T cells. The new system breaks apart the T-cell from the antibody and allows for the ability to switch targets, like unplugging a lightning cable from an adapter and plugging in a different charging cable.

The ability to switch targets is what can prevent relapse in patients. Cancer cells are smart and will mutate to no longer display the target when they sense the T-cells attacking after attaching to it. The SUPRA CAR-T system allows the T-cells to attack a new target by simply injecting the patient with a new batch of antibodies rather than having to re-engineer the T-cells, which is the most expensive portion of the treatment.

The third feature this split system produces is the ability to finely tune how active the T-cell response is, which helps mitigate the dangerous side effects of previous CAR-T systems. By introducing a third component that can block the bonding of the T-cell and the antibody, the SUPRA CAR-T system can be deactivated. The level of deactivation can be tuned by choosing the strength to which this third component binds to the antibody.

Moving forward, Wong hopes CAR-T can become the frontline treatment for cancer that can significantly improve quality of life for patients. He also sees it becoming more.

“The way I imagine it is a tricked-out cell,” he says. “We want something off-the-shelf so we wouldn’t have to make it for every patient, which would bring the cost down, with the capability to switch it on or off.

We’d also want it to be able to make certain proteins it might need—proteins that chew up solid-tumor boundaries, for example.

Lots of sensors, lots of switches, all these bells and whistles that would make a very smart cell.”

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here have been few cancer treatments with such a promising future as using the patient’s own immune system. Known as chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, or CAR-T, this treatment uses re-engineered killer T-cells to attack cancer cells, but also causes potentially deadly side effects. Now, research led by Assistant Professor Wilson Wong (BME) is opening doors to making such therapy safer and more effective.

Co-authored by graduate student Jang Hwan Cho and Professor Jim Collins of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the research is published in the journal Cell.

Wong sees the current CAR-T system as having three major flaws: target specificity; strength of response; and lack of adaptive capability (which is essentially the issue of relapse). “Our system has the ability to address those three problems,” he notes.

Traditional CAR-T is a treatment engineered for one specific patient to treat one specific type of cancer cell. The new refined system—called split, universal and programmable (SUPRA) CAR-T—can be continuously altered to target different types of cancer cells, turned on and off, and overall offers a significantly more finely tuned treatment than current therapies.

“Instead of thinking about CAR-T as engineering cells that kill cancer, the way I think about it is as an antibody that drags a killer T-cell with it,” Wong explains. “What’s amazing about it is that once the CAR T-cell binds and activates, it will recruit more T-cells and make copies of itself. Drugs don’t do that.”

This overwhelming immune response is also what causes the severe side effects. There have been advances in drug therapy to mitigate these side effects by blocking unnecessary portions of the immune response while still allowing the CAR-T to attack the cancer cells, and the greater number of cancer cells means a stronger immune response. But the SUPRA

new microchip technology capable of optically transferring data could solve a severe bottleneck in current devices by speeding data transfer and reducing energy consumption by orders of magnitude, according to an article published in the April issue of Nature.

Researchers from BU, MIT, the University of California Berkeley and University of Colorado Boulder have developed a method to fabricate silicon chips that can communicate with light and are no more expensive than current chip technology.

The electrical signaling bottleneck between current microelectronic chips has left light communication as one of the only options left for further technological progress. The traditional method of data transfer—electrical wires—has a limit on how fast and how far it can transfer data; it also uses a lot of power and generates heat. With the relentless demand for higher performance and lower power in electronics, these limits have been reached.

But with this new development, that bottleneck can be solved.

“Instead of a single wire carrying around 10 gigabits per second, you can have a single optical fiber carrying 10 to 20 terabits per second—so, a thousand times more in the same footprint,” says Assistant Professor Milos Popovic (ECE), one of the principal investigators of the study.

“If you replace a wire with an optical fiber, there are two ways you win,” Popovic continues. “First, with light, you can send data at much higher frequencies without significant loss of energy, as there is with copper wiring.

Second, with optics, you can use many different colors of light in one fiber and each one can carry a data channel. The fibers can also be packed more closely together than copper wires can without crosstalk.”

In the past, progress to integrate a photonic capability onto state-of-the-art chips that are used in computers and smartphones was hindered by a manufacturing roadblock.

The first major success in overcoming this roadblock was in 2015, when the same group of researchers published another paper

Professor Rajeev Ram of MIT, Popovic’s collabin Nature that solved this problem, but in a orators on the project. limited, commercially relevant setting.

The new platform, which brings photonics Although this initial solution promises to state-of-the-art bulk silicon microelectronic significant commercial impact, its ultimate chips, promises faster and more energyapplicability is limited because of the high cost efficient communication that could vastly of its starting material—silicon-on-insulator. improve computing and mobile devices.

To develop a solution for all silicon microelecApplications beyond traditional data comtronics, the researchers needed to focus their munication include accelerating the training efforts on using the predominant, low-cost of deep-learning artificial neural networks starting substrate—bulk silicon, which is used used in image and speech recognition tasks, to make the majority of common microchips and low-cost infrared LIDAR sensors for selfand is what’s in laptops and smartphones. driving cars, smartphone face identification Silicon-on-insulator delivers a higher perforand augmented reality technology. In addition, mance than bulk silicon, but at a significant optically enabled microchips could enable new cost premium and, as such, is primarily used in types of data security and hardware authenticertain high-end microprocessors. cation, more powerful chips for mobile devices The difference between bulk silicon and silicon-on-insulator is that the latter has a layer operating on 5th generation wireless networks, and components for quantum information of insulator, typically very pure glass, directly processing and computing. underneath a thin layer of silicon, and the former doesn’t. The glass acts as a barrier for light particles to keep them confined in optical waveguides in the device. Without the glass barrier, the light signal would be lost.

In the most recent paper, the researchers present a manufacturing solution by introducing a set of new material layers in the photonic processing portion of a bulk silicon chip; they demonstrate that this change allows optical communication with no impact electronics. By working with industrial semiconductor manufacturing researchers at the Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the State University of New York at Albany to develop this solution, the scientists ensured that any process that was developed could be seamlessly inserted into current industry-level manufacturing. The result crowns a several-year-long project funded by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency and led initially by Associate Professor Vladimir Stojanovic of UC The bulk silicon electronic-photonic chip designed by the MIT, Berkeley and more recently by University of Colorado Boulder, UC Berkeley and BU team.

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When Slower Means Faster NEW METHOD COULD SPEED ANTIBIOTIC TESTS

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obots can get a bad rap when they are touted as the imminent revolution to replacing the labor force. But when that labor force is comprised of biology research students performing repetitive tasks, automation can free up hours that can be redirected toward designing experiments and analyzing results, and important efforts such as writing research papers and grants. Associate Professor Douglas Densmore (ECE, BME), doctoral student Luis Ortiz (MCBB), Research Fellow Marilene Pavan (ECE) and software engineers Josh Timmons and Lloyd McCarthy from Lattice Automation (a software company Densmore co-founded) have demonstrated 8

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With this new method, results can be seen within an hour.

“Our method is completely different in that it’s not based upon growth, it’s based upon the motion of bacteria,” Ekinci says. “We observed that when you give the bacteria antibiotics, they immediately show this decreased movement, and we can connect that to bacterial viability and show antibiotic susceptibility within minutes or tens of minutes because they slow down almost immediately.”

Kara was tasked with developing a microfluidic chip with a channel small enough to capture the bacteria, but wide enough to allow them to move. Using scientific literature as a resource, Kara developed the chip and determined the voltage to run through the chip to measure bacteria’s movements. The electrical signal needed to be strong enough so they could detect fluctuations in the voltage, but not strong enough to kill the bacteria. These and

the usefulness of an automated pipetting robot paired with a novel software tool through a Journal of Visualized Experiments video.

Together, they have developed the software component, mocloassembly.com, which allows researchers to compile a digital mock-up of genetic circuits that the automated pipetting machine then builds. The pipetting robot decreases the hands-on time of a tedious process (like pipetting small volumes of liquid to set up 96 reactions) from just over two hours to five minutes, and also increases reproducibility within the lab.

Ortiz says that mocloassembly.com generates all possible combinations of genetic circuits based on user-specified basic DNA parts and allows researchers to compile large circuit libraries automatically. Their new software platform offers a seamless pairing with the automated pipetting robot and is one of the only platforms that allows the user full control to customize the circuits and the robotic execution of the experiment. As genetic circuits are getting more complex and scientists want to test different iterations of a circuit that could have seven or eight components, the lab work becomes highly intricate, which

other variables, like how often they were going to collect a reading, needed to be determined to form the platform.

Then the researchers could show how the measured electrical signal fluctuations corresponded to bacterial movements and after the bacteria were exposed to antibiotics, the fluctuations decreased—meaning the bacteria were dying.

“Doctors aren’t as willing to prescribe broad-spectrum antibiotics with the current drug resistance problem and it’s not safe to prescribe them to immunocompromised people like children and pregnant women—you have to target the infection with the correct antibiotic and you have to do it quickly,” Kara explains. “But, unfortunately, the current commercial technologies are not very practical because it can take two days or more to complete. But our technique circumvents the long process of cell culture and allows for fast diagnosis and treatment.”

increases the chance of human error and requires more hands-on time.

“Connecting software directly to biomanufacturing processes is going to be an increasingly important aspect of getting widespread adoption of software for engineering living systems,” Densmore points out.

Ortiz, Pavan and Densmore are envisioning a much larger automated system called the Biofoundry Integrated Instrumentation System (BIIS) to handle most of the work for a variety of experiments that would standardize lab protocols and increase reproducibility and repeatability. The team has submitted a National Science Foundation grant proposal to acquire funding to build the BIIS, which would be comprised of several devices that would allow for full automation of many molecular biology processes so almost no human involvement would be needed.

In conjunction with software being developed in Densmore’s group, the BIIS would allow full automation of the design, building and testing of new biological systems driven by the creation of genetic circuits in significantly less hands-on time than the current process.

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ays to harvest renewable energy like solar and wind power have been highly developed over the past couple of decades, but the caveat of weather unpredictability has always been difficult to manage. The 2018 student winners of the Imagineering Competition hope to use wind produced by high-speed traffic to remove the uncertainty of weather in capturing wind power.

The Imagineering Competition invites undergraduates to submit extracurricular projects that showcase their creativity and entrepreneurial capabilities for a chance to win cash prizes and develop their project further.

This year’s winning project is a vertical-axis wind turbine that would sit between opposing streams of traffic on the highway. Verticalaxis wind turbines are used in cities where space is limited, but they are still typically bulky and large so as to capture as much wind as possible. The wind turbine, proposed for highway use, is compact and could potentially be built into highway medians. In addition to the opposing airflows creating wind, heat from the dark tarmac will help the air rise and give an extra boost to power generation.

Team captain Brendon Bourgea says the idea to use the wind generated by traffic came to him when he was studying in the Photonics Center and looking down onto the rushing traffic on the highway below. “I had experience building a vertical wind turbine at my lake house in Vermont,” he says. “And when I saw how much highway traffic there was during Mock-up of the verticalaxis wind turbines within a highway median

the day, I knew that integrating a turbine into the middle of the highway could open up a new and predictable renewable energy source.”

Team members Bourgea (ENG’18), Jon Hale (ENG’19) and David van Daalen Wetters (ENG’19) presented their initial modeling at the Imagineering Competition on April 20.

The students used computational modeling to show how opposing airflows would create strong, circular windflow, or vortices, when captured into a small space like the wind turbine. They also presented their 3D-printed model of the proposed turbine.

All of the students on the team are studying mechanical engineering in the Late Entry Accelerated Program (LEAP) in the mechanical engineering department, the college’s unique master’s degree program for students without an engineering bachelor’s degree.

Bourgea studied business for his undergraduate degree, Hale, finance and politics, and van Daalen Wetters, chemistry.

“One of the most exciting aspects of winning the competition was the assistance the college would offer us with patent filing and intellectual property,” Bourgea says.

Along with those prizes, the team also walks away with a $3,000 grant for product development, an invitation to serve on the competition committee the following year and marketing analysis consultation.

The second-place team presented an automated T-maze, a research instrument used in mouse studies. Automating the T-maze could help scientists collect large data sets with

significantly less time and labor. Their prize is $1,500, along with assistance in patent submission and marketing analysis consultation.

The committee also awarded four Best in Class prizes of $500 each. Justin Fiaschetti (ME) took home the freshman prize for his design of a collapsible longboard; Steve Numata (EE) and Ilyas Nazarof (ME) won co-Best in Class for sophomores—Numata designed an infinity speaker with a 3D-mirror display that could pulse lights and Nazarof designed a no-slosh water bottle for athletes and runners; Lucas Watson (ME) was awarded the junior prize for his friendly robot design that would analyze and react to how the user was behaving; and Jacob Nazarian (ME) took home the senior prize for his bicycle-powered air pump that oxygenates the water fish are stored in during transport for use in low-resource settings. The Imagineering Competition is supported by John Maccarone (ENG’66).

The 3D-printed model of the proposed vertical-axis wind turbine

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s bacteria grow increasingly resistant to antibiotics, scientists are on the hunt for a fast way to test how the bacteria infecting a patient will respond to a particular antibiotic. Professor Kamil Ekinci (ME, MSE), Assistant Professor Chuanhua Duan (ME, MSE) and postdoctoral fellow Vural Kara, along with collaborators from the BU School of Medicine, have developed a new rapid antibiotic susceptibility test that works by measuring the movements of bacteria.

Their work, published in Lab on a Chip, uses a microfluidic device to first capture bacteria within a small channel and then detect the bacteria’s movements before and after exposure to antibiotics. The current gold-standard method for antibiotic susceptibility requires scientists to take a sample of the infection, culture the bacteria so they grow, and then test several antibiotics on them. That process takes two to three days.

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The same length of beam is pushed into the box, but (from left to right) the beam bends differently depending on how many beads are in the box. As the number of beads increases, the beam is forced to curve into two bumps rather than one.

HOLMES’ RESEARCH LOOKS AT HOW SOFT MATERIALS BUCKLE, SNAP AND JAM

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ven with the deep scientific understanding surrounding how matter behaves in many different scenarios, scientists are still learning about how new or more unusual types of structures, materials and systems that are becoming more prevalent react to little-understood forces.

Soft matter, which is anything from gels to liquids to polymers, falls into this group of matter that behaves in nuanced ways that are still not yet fully defined. In two recent papers published in Physical Review Letters, Assistant Professor Douglas Holmes (ME, MSE) outlines two different concepts that push forward our understanding of how soft matter behaves under instable conditions like growth.

Holmes spends his time studying how thin structures behave—their physics, geometry and mechanics. Since the invention of materials that are super thin but also super strong, engineers have started to use them to build objects like car accelerometers or lab-on-achip within the world of mircroelectromechanical systems (MEMS). But problems arise

when a non-mechanical force called natural curvature buckles a thin shell significantly earlier than engineers would predict based on a century-old, pressure-buckling model.

Natural curvature occurs when an object grows or swells. There is a species of bacteria that grows inside out—so when it matures, it has to completely invert. The bacteria does this by natural curvature. And if a thin curved shell experiences natural curvature, it buckles earlier than scientists would predict. This is because although pressure and natural curvature behave in a similar way to create instabilities, they are not the same.

“The problem with all thin structures— shells, plates, beams—is that they’re really, really strong until they fail, and they can fail by buckling, and they can fail in a catastrophic way,” Holmes explains. “A long-standing problem in mechanics has been trying to predict when a spherical shell will buckle.

There’s a very classical predication for shells under pressure that was made over 100 years ago. But we show that the point at which a

shell buckles under natural curvature, although similar to pressure buckling, is actually very different.”

In one of his recent papers, Holmes and his team, along with a collaborator from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studied how a thin shell responded to swelling, which is how the researchers mimicked growth in the lab. Holmes uses two different polymers on either side of the shell, and they tune the amount of natural curvature using a technique they developed called residual swelling.

“The pink polymer and the green polymer are very, very similar,” he says. “The only difference between the two of them is that the pink polymer has extra fluid in it; you can kind of think of it like a wet sponge. The green polymer is kind of like a dry sponge, and when you stick them together some of the fluid goes from the wet sponge to the dry sponge until they’re both equally wet. That means the pink one gets smaller because it just lost some material and the green one gets bigger.”

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A thin shell buckles (top) and snaps (bottom) under natural curvature shown in sequences of still from time lapses.

As the shell swells, it curves up or down depending on if the inside or outside of the shell is swelling. If the outside is swelling (the green polymer is on the outside), then the shell will curve down; if the inside is swelling, it will curve up. This spontaneous curvature intrigues Holmes.

“An instability called buckling is one of the first concepts that mechanical engineers learn about; buckling is one way that objects fail when they’re thin,” he says. “A different instability is called snapping. Snapping is like when your umbrella gets turned inside out on a windy day; buckling is like when you crush a soda can.” If an object is curving down, that causes buckling, and if it curves up, that causes snapping.”

The surprising thing Holmes and his colleagues discovered is the difference between how and when a shell becomes unstable depends on whether the swelling creates an upward or downward curvature. Holmes said that this paper shows that if an object is buckling, the geometry of that object doesn’t help predict the point at which it will buckle. But if an object is snapping, the object’s geometry matters a lot. This allows scientists to predict when a curved object will buckle or snap depending on the type of natural curvature it is subjected to.

The second piece of work, published as the cover story in Physical Review Letters in February 2018, explores a different concept.

To investigate the mechanics behind what happens when a slender rod is pushed into granular materials, Holmes and his lab built a

box, put differing amounts of small beads into it, and observed what happened when they inserted a rod.

To think about this concept outside of the lab, the rod can represent a tree root and the granular material can be soil. When a root is growing, it will navigate itself through the soil, but will change direction if it encounters resistance. What Holmes studied is, at what point does the root “win out” and grow through the soil, and, on the opposite side, at what point does the soil “win out” and the root redirects itself.

The experiment detailed when the grains acted as a gas, liquid or solid, depending on how many grains there were in the box. The results were twofold: the team can determine how far a beam can be pushed into a specific density of a granular material before it begins to feel the pressure of the grains pushing back onto it, and they also showed that the beam and the grains had an effect on each other.

Holmes explains that in mechanics, there is a concept called a “diverging length scale” that can measure how jammed a system is at a point in time. For the beam, this means measuring how close together the two bumps are that are formed when the beam is bending to the will of the grains; and for the grains it means measuring how much they can move.

Without any grains in the box to push back on the beam, it would make one curve so the object is curved the same amount throughout its length. But when the grains create an obstacle, the beam curves and forms two smaller bumps.

“To measure how confined the beam is, you measure the length in the beam between the two bumps,” Holmes says. “Then we can calculate the rate at which the beam is jamming, or its diverging length scale. If we just measured roughly how many grains are moving as we inserted the beam, the number of grains that are moving drops at the same rate that the beam jams, and we don’t know why.”

Even in the simplest case of an elastogranular system of a beam and beads in a box, everything is coupled. What the beam does is completely dependent on the grains, whether that is their orientation, their ordering or how jammed or not jammed they are; and everything that the grains are doing is dictated by how stiff the elastic beam is, and where it’s able to bend and move.

This concept also has an application in smart needles. These findings detail that what a needle could do or how it could move is dependent on the tissue it’s being inserted into.

“The object can sense its surroundings really well,” Holmes notes. “In theory, you could use that to let the object sense resistance and generate feedback to tell the object to bend away from an area that is stiffer.”

“The second paper is almost opposite to the first one,” he adds. “The first one presented a very complete story of a problem, but the second one opens many more questions than we’ve answered.”

But together, the papers offer new perspectives and understandings on the mechanics of thin structures to expand scientific knowledge and move the conversation forward.

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THE BRIGHT IDEA

ENGINEERS SOLVE GRAND CHALLENGES

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cademic disciplines in modern universities were decided in the late 19th century, when they created this complete orthogonal set of human knowledge,” says Professor David Bishop (ECE, Physics, MSE, ME, BME). “But the societally important problems are far more sophisticated and far more complex than one single discipline can solve.”

As director of the $20 million CELL-MET Engineering Research Center (ERC) funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Bishop heads up a team of interdisciplinary researchers who are working to synthesize personalized heart tissue for clinical use.

The ERC is one of nine interdisciplinary centers within Boston University’s College of Engineering. The Biological Design Center (BDC) and the Neurophotonics Center are two other such major hubs for collaboration between researchers not just within the College of Engineering, but also throughout BU and other universities.

Although each center’s goals focus on solving a major research problem—whether those are specific goals like building personalized heart tissue and developing technologies to understand the brain, or a broader goal of working to understand life’s design principles in order to be able to re-engineer them—all of the centers rely on collaboration and cooperation between disciplines.

“Heart disease, energy, cancer, diabetes, climate change—these are all problems that are major societal challenges,” says Bishop.

“But a group of physicists, a group of chemists or a group of electrical engineers aren’t going to solve any of those massive challenges by themselves.”

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Assistant Professor Ahmad ‘Mo’ Khalil (BME) and Assistant Professor Wilson Wong (BME) are two engineers who do. “The synthetic biologists like Mo Khalil and Wilson Wong are trying to build new genetic circuits, signaling pathways, transcription factors and receptors, so in a sense they are making all of the parts that are used to control cells,” says Chen. “And I’m trying to control cells and turn them into tissue—so we realized we were part of the same field even though our technical disciplines aren’t the same.”

Just as Chen can benefit from the synthetic biologists’ toolkit, they can benefit from another discipline that relies on circuits and signals. BDC member Associate Professor Douglas Densmore (ECE, BME) is an electrical and computer engineer who builds tools for synthetic biologists like Khalil and Wong. Densmore leads a team working on a $10 million NSF-funded effort to quantify synthetic biology, using a computer engineering approach to create a toolbox of carefully measured and catalogued biological parts that can be used to engineer organisms with predictable results.

Bishop says Chen’s work in tissue engineering was a spark for the beginning of the ERC. “Stem cells can become any kind of adult cell—and there’s hundreds of different kinds of cells in the human body—so what happens is that those stem cells, via clues that we’re only just beginning to understand, decide which type of adult cells to become,” says Bishop. “The interesting discovery, what really drove the ERC’s establishment, was by Chris Chen. His research has shown that it’s really a nano-mechanical environment that drives the stem cell maturation process.

“If you take a stem cell and you put it in an environment that feels like a heart-muscle environment, somewhere that’s contractile, the cell says, okay, then I’ll become a cardio myocyte,” says Bishop. “Or if you put it in a place that feels like skeletal muscle or a place that feels

like skin, or bone, or kidneys or any other type of tissue environment, that is what causes a stem cell to grow and transform into the type of cell it’s supposed to be—that was a huge breakthrough.”

The ERC has four principal researchers within BU: Bishop, the ERC director and a nanotechnologist; Professor Alice White (ME, MSE, BME), who is also a nanotechnologist; Professor Thomas Bifano (ME, MSE, BME), who works on imaging; and Chen, the tissue engineer.

“We believe that to achieve the center’s goal, we will need to be innovative at the nexus of several academic disciplines,” says Bifano.

“Our team has organized into a cohesive and cooperative group of scholars from diverse backgrounds and we have established learning communities in which complementary expertise and perspectives fuel our collective progress and we have all become both students and teachers.”

Bishop says his team along with White’s are beginning to build mechanical environments, systems and devices for Chen’s team to use. Bifano and his team are beginning to develop microscopes that image tissue in various ways for Chen’s team. “What we’re trying to do is take these things, and kind of bring them together, and create a kind of shared common understanding about the challenges and opportunities,” says Bishop.

“A wonderful aspect of the ERC is the opportunity for everyone to be part of something much larger than a single research group,” White says. “We’ve met students who were part of ERCs decades ago and they still describe it as a transformational experience—learning to communicate with experts in different disciplines, figuring out how to integrate into the larger team and, finally, having the opportunity to make a much larger impact than is usually possible as a student.”

These types of multidisciplinary collaborations are also what the director of the Neurophotonics Center, Professor David Boas

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These three centers together boast almost 50 faculty members working with a common drive to learn how biological processes work and to develop technologies, processes and techniques to understand those processes on a deeper level.

“Part of understanding how something works is to try to build it, and when the expected outcome isn’t the actual outcome, it’s clear we have a disconnect somewhere,” says Professor Chris Chen (BME, MSE), the BDC’s director. “We cycle through a feedback loop of designing what we think will generate the desired protein, cell or tissue, building it, testing what we’ve made and then learning what needs to be adjusted for the next iteration.”

“I’m inspired by the number and diversity of collaborations across labs that have already developed in the short time since we founded the BDC,” says Jessica Tytell, executive director of the BDC. “These teams are building new ideas, approaches and solutions to a broad array of challenging issues.”

Chen says that the goal of the BDC is to understand how biological systems work so that they can then re-engineer them for a variety of applications. He is also the deputy director of the ERC, working with Bishop on building personalized heart tissue. By training, Chen is a tissue engineer who studies the role of forces and architecture in controlling how cells organize and function, with a focus on cardiac and vascular tissues. The goal of his own group within the BDC is to understand how to generate cardiac muscle and blood vessels, what happens to them during injury and why those processes happen the way they do on a molecular level.

“All of the members of the BDC share a common purpose to understand the underlying design of biology so we can replicate it,” says Chen. “There are many scientists out there who don’t operate like that.”

MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IS LIKE REACHING INTO SOMEONE ELSE’S TOOLBOX TO SOLVE YOUR OWN PROBLEM. AND INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH, BISHOP SAYS, INVOLVES CREATING A NEW SET OF TOOLS THAT WOULDN’T BE IN ANY OF THEIR OWN TOOLBOXES.

(BME, ECE), is focusing on. The Neurophotonics Center’s mission is to cultivate new technologies for researchers to study the brain— and new technologies hopefully mean new discoveries. The center opened in the fall of 2017 and is the first facility of its kind in the United States and only the second in North America.

“We want to help spark collaboration between researchers who are building a new technology and researchers asking a specific scientific question,” says Boas. And his own work showcases this driving mechanism.

Boas is one of the pioneers of functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)—a machine that can measure blood flow within the brain with infrared light. It is a flexible, shower-cap-like device that is strapped to a subject’s head and makes measurements through the skull. When someone thinks, speaks or acts, blood rushes to the part of the brain doing the work, and Boas tracks that rush with light.

Unlike other brain imaging techniques like magnetic resonance imaging, fNIRS doesn’t require the subject to be completely still; which means it can be used to study brain activity during surgery and memory creation, and on stroke victims, dementia patients and children with autism.

One collaboration, with researchers in BU’s College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College, is working to understand how the brain of a stroke patient responds to rehab in real time.

One of the successful collaborations that Boas has helped drive is between Assistant Professor Lei Tian (ECE), whose expertise is in computational microscopy and imaging, and signal processing, and Assistant Professor Ian Davison (biology), who works to understand the neural circuits of perceptions and behaviors related to smell.

Boas recognized the natural pairing as Davison was developing a miniaturized version of a device called a miniscope, which can image a mouse brain.

Doctoral students Rachael Jayne (ME), Christos Micha (BME) and Victoria Wiedorn (ME), who all perform research for the ERC’s mission in Professor Alice White’s (ME, MSE, BME) lab.

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Doctoral student Smrithi Sunil (BME), research scientist Anderson Chen, Professor David Boas (BME) and research scientist Kivilcim Kilıç are members of the Neurophotonics Center.

Current technology can look at the entire top surface of a mouse brain, but those mesoscopes are much larger and require the mouse to be secured while researchers image the brain working and signaling.

Their version of the mesoscope miniaturizes the device and allows the mouse to freely move around while wearing it.

“It’s really about incorporating all these different pieces,” says Tian. “First, there is the scale in terms of the field of view you can image and also the size of the device, which is where my expertise comes in. Second, Boas’ lab has developed this highly specialized surgery to fit the mesoscope to the mouse’s head and have it behave as though the device isn’t there—which is very hard. Then once you have that, you want this mouse to do something and gather data that you need to interpret. That’s where Davison comes in.”

Being able to image the brain while it is actively working, whether in a human or an animal, is a valuable area of study that researchers are just beginning to break into. Device development has been the biggest hindrance to progress, which is why it is such a large focus of the Neurophotonics Center’s work.

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researchers like those in Sargent College to use fNIRS without extensive training on analyzing the neuroimaging results.

“We all need to be well regarded in our disciplines, but if that’s all we know, it’s also a limitation,” says Bishop. “An electrical engineer has a certain box of tools. And if the problem at hand requires the tool you have, great. But if you’ve got a box of screwdrivers and to solve the problem you need a wrench, and your discipline hasn’t ever given you a wrench, what are we going to do about that?”

Multidisciplinary research is like reaching into someone else’s toolbox to solve your own problem. And interdisciplinary research, Bishop says, involves creating a new set of tools that wouldn’t be in any of their own toolboxes.

Chen says that there are many times he needs to turn on a specific gene in a cell, but can’t figure out how or the best way to do it. “Sometimes I’ll just go down to Khalil’s office to hash out the issue and ask if there’s a way he knows how to do this,” says Chen. And many times Khalil will have a tool or a graduate student who is working on a related problem who can help. Then another member of the BDC, Assistant Professor John Ngo (BME), might chime in to say he is working on a method to turn on that gene with light, which means Chen could target specific cells.

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THESE THREE CENTERS TOGETHER BOAST ALMOST 50 FACULTY MEMBERS WORKING WITH A COMMON DRIVE TO LEARN HOW BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES WORK AND TO DEVELOP TECHNOLOGIES, PROCESSES AND TECHNIQUES TO UNDERSTAND THOSE PROCESSES ON A DEEPER LEVEL.

THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING also houses five other interdisciplinary research centers, detailed below, in addition to the National Science Foundation (NSF)—Engineering Research Center (ERC) in Cellular Metamaterials, the Biological Design Center and the Neurophotonics Center. ENG faculty also actively participate in other University-wide centers and the college is a partner in various multi-university research centers.

The Center for Autonomous and Robotics Systems was established earlier this year and will focus on three main research application areas: the science of autonomy; robotic vehicles and manipulators; and microbiological robotics. All of these applications contribute to the growing ambition to bring artificial intelligence into the physical world. See story on page 4 for more.

At the Center for Information and Systems Engineering, researchers engineer hardware and software systems to acquire, analyze and act upon information from a range of networked sources. These systems advance human intelligence to solve critical problems in fields including healthcare, communications, energy and national security.

The Hearing Research Center develops and disseminates knowledge that will improve the nation’s auditory health and allow the fullest utilization of the sense of hearing. Research there combines theoretical and experimental studies of auditory processing to understand hearing in both normal and impaired auditory systems. The center includes twenty

faculty members from six departments in four BU schools and colleges.

The Nanotechnology Innovation Center advances research and training in nanoscience and nanotechnology and facilitates the translation of the faculty’s scientific discoveries to the market. To accelerate the development and deployment of nanotechnology innovations that can be applied to key challenges in medicine, energy and materials science, the center builds links between researchers and BU’s technology commercialization resources.

The Precision Diagnostics Center brings the talents of medical, dental, engineering and public health researchers to bear on precision medicine, innovating diagnostic devices and taking them to the marketplace. The center encourages interdisciplinary research to improve efficiency, getting medical innovations to the patient faster.

The point-of-care diagnostics technologies developed by the center will allow clinicians, pharmacists and even patients to conduct sophisticated molecular tests for strep throat, pregnancy, blood-glucose monitoring and more—in clinics and homes.

Within the Precision Diagnostics Center is the Center for Future Technologies in Cancer Care, which is a National Institutes of Health– funded research center focusing on the identification, prototyping and early clinical assessment of innovative point-of-care technologies for the treatment, screening, diagnosis and monitoring of cancers.

A conversation with a colleague could spark an idea for a solution to a question—which is why all of the centers work to regularly gather their members and collaborators. Most members of the BDC are housed in the same building—the Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering, which opened last year. In addition to having state-of-the-art labs and facilities, this physical space keeps the team in close proximity, facilitating easy interaction among researchers and students.

“It turns out that even with the telephone and the internet, that human beings’ interaction with each other falls off exponentially with distance, and that’s about 100 meters,” says Bishop. “I interact with people on this floor 10 or 100 times more effectively and more often than the people even 100 meters down the road. People who are kilometers away might as well be on Jupiter as for how I interact with them. The skinnier the pipe that we’re forced to interact through, the less useful information we get, and the more unlikely we are to brainstorm or do innovative thinking.”

Although each center housed within the College of Engineering focuses on a specific area of research, the common thread that ties them all together is developing a deeper understanding of their piece of the world. And to fully comprehend a process as compli-

cated as how the human body grows heart tissue, or how a healthy or a diseased brain works, requires minds from diverse backgrounds and training.

Heart tissue is highly metabolic, it has large mechanical changes in volume and shape when the heart beats, the tissue needs lots of blood flow in order to work—and it’s also electrical. Building this type of tissue has serious chemical, mechanical and electrical challenges, and all of those pieces have to fall into place at the same time.

“One of the reasons we wanted to focus our efforts on heart tissue is that it’s one of the most profound technical challenges,” says Bishop. “But it’s also the number-one killer of people in the United States. And so it’s the hardest technical problem from a tissue engineering point of view, but it’s also the one that, when we solve the problem, will make the biggest positive impact on human health and longevity.

“I think the great research universities like Boston University have a moral obligation to work on the great problems,” says Bishop.

“We’re lucky enough to live very comfortable lives and I think that comes with the responsibility to focus on some of the big, important problems, which fundamentally require interdisciplinary research.”

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here are over a billion people around the globe suffering uncorrected vision,” says Yaopeng Zhou (’05, ’09). “Many of them live in developing countries like India and China and they fundamentally just lack access to eye doctors. To solve that problem, either you spend a ton of money and time to train people or you can figure out a piece of technology to do the work.”

That, Zhou says, was the inspiration for him to develop a handheld, easy-to-use mobile technology that performs eye exams. After years of development, Zhou and a fellow Boston University graduate, Marc Albanese (’99, ’03), cofounded Smart Vision Labs in 2013 to make eye care and exams more accessible to everyone.

After graduating from the College of Engineering in 2009 with a PhD in manufacturing engineering, Zhou went to GE Healthcare to work as an optical development engineer. There, he helped

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contact lenses. “It’s a more straightforward, direct-to-consumer practice at a reduced cost to the customer,” he says.

“We didn’t just want to become a player to support the existing system,” he adds. “We really want to push something to benefit the consumer, not just the doctor or the hospital.”

And Zhou doesn’t just want to benefit consumers in the United States. Smart Vision Labs partners with organizations like the ASCRS Foundation, which helps increase access to patient eye care in Ethiopia, and with Education In Sight, a nonprofit government organization that works in China, and Healthbridge Global, an organization that works with iCareforIndia to expand eye care throughout India.

“A pair of eyeglasses only costs $1.50 to make,” says Zhou. “Really, it’s not that expensive, right? But the bottleneck is you don’t know your prescription. But we are solving that problem—we are offering prescriptions to people who need eyeglasses.”

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to develop an optical fiber–based multiwavelength fluorescence microscope for drug discovery. Zhou then moved to Abbott Laboratories and worked on building a handheld blood testing device. Both projects required building complex microscopes, but Zhou thought, “I definitely can do something different—maybe even better. That planted the seed to start something on my own.”

Before coming to BU, Zhou studied in China for his bachelor’s degree in mechatronics, a field that combines mechanical and electrical engineering. “I didn’t have an idea I wanted to work in optics.

I just knew I wanted to work on something challenging,” he says.

“Optics is the first thing that caught my eye.”

“With optics, you actually need to build the piece of equipment that shoots a laser into a part of the body, and also measure the physical property of the laser,” says Zhou. “That makes optics so much more fun and interesting—the two components together really pushed me to go really deep into understanding the whole subject.”

Before Smart Vision Labs was formed, Zhou had to build and test the product on his own. The device, called an autorefractor, is the same technology used in laser eye surgery to correct vision, but this device measures imperfections in the eyeball.

“We essentially shoot a laser into the eye and capture the light going in and out using a camera, and then measure how the light travels in your eyeball,” says Zhou. “Mathematically there’s a perfect eye, but nobody has a perfect eye. Once we measure how the light travels and compare that pattern to a perfect pattern, the difference will be the eyeglasses you need to compensate for the imperfection of your eyeball.”

Zhou sees his portable autorefractor as changing the way eye doctors perform exams in their offices, but he also wanted to disrupt the market beyond the traditional model with telemedicine. His device can generate the results from an eye exam in five minutes, then digitally send those results to an ophthalmologist to write prescriptions remotely, and the patient never has to go into a doctor’s office.

“You don’t need to have a medical degree to run the technology,” says Zhou. The Smart Vision Labs exam costs $30 and within 24 hours a patient can receive a prescription to buy eyeglasses or

Increasing access to eye exams and eyeglasses is also a local initiative. “The US is one of the most advanced countries in the world, but we still have students from New York City suffering from the same problem as students from India and China,” says Zhou. “There are some students who are at the bottom of the class, but it’s not because they’re bad students—they just can’t see the blackboard.”

Based in New York City, Smart Vision Labs partners with schools to provide free eye exams for students. From there, students can get a prescription if needed and then work with organizations like 141 Eyewear, the Essilor Vision Foundation and Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City, who donate eyeglasses for these lowincome students.

As Smart Vision Labs continually improves the product, Zhou says it wants to disrupt the industry even more. With records from over 110,000 patients, Zhou says they have one of the largest eye exam results databases in the world.

“Data can tell us mathematics patterns,” says Zhou. “So, we looked at how doctors are prescribing and their patterns, and then we transformed those patterns into code to develop software to prescribe automatically.”

He says the initial impact of this is economical. “If there are a million people living in a remote village, it’s not economical to have a US doctor prescribing for those people,” he says. “A US doctor is pretty expensive for their time. So how do you actually offer service to those people? Software.”

When a patient receives an exam, the software, which is being developed with machine learning, would analyze the results and automatically recommend a prescription, if necessary. In addition to lowering costs globally, this could also lower costs within the US by decreasing the amount of time a doctor takes to write an eyeglasses prescription.

As of 2018, Smart Vision Labs has around 650 devices in the US and has performed over 110,000 exams—half from eye doctors and half from optical retail stores. “When you have a problem that affects 60 percent of the entire global population,” says Zhou, “that is a worthy problem to solve.”

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“WHEN YOU REALIZE THAT WHAT YOU’RE DOING IS REALLY AFFECTING AND TOUCHING SOMEBODY’S LIFE—THAT CAN BE POWERFUL.” COURTESY OF TONIE LEATHERBERRY

s a manufacturing engineering student at Boston University, Tonie Leatherberry (’85) learned how to make processes more efficient—how to look at an established practice and improve it. She has used that knowledge to help her clients at Deloitte & Touche LLP, where she is a principal. And, since 2016 as president of the Deloitte Foundation, she has used her experience to improve education in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) on a national level.

With her intricate knowledge of manufacturing and broad client service experience, Leatherberry said she can advise on “what it takes to go beyond just a technical degree and what employers are looking for in terms of leadership, teaming and effective communication skills.”

“I think I’m lucky that I get multiple lenses into how we shape our future talent.”

The 90-year-old Deloitte Foundation supports educational initiatives in the United States by providing curriculum resources for educators and experiential learning programs for students, and by promoting excellence in research and teaching innovation. She says the most recent initiative from the Deloitte Foundation focuses on STEM, not just in the traditional sense, but inclusive of tech-savvy analytical mindsets and employability skills like collaboration and communication.

“Right now, we’re setting up a strategy to help underserved youth and young women,” Leatherberry says. “We want to help build competencies in STEM by taking an ecosystem approach, building out career pathways, providing curriculum resources and experiences that are hopefully going to set them on a trajectory to pursue not only STEM degrees at the higher levels, but also STEM or STEMadjacent careers.”

Leatherberry says that the foundation is working with two nonprofit organizations to develop a project-based curriculum to help students identify interest in, and career pathways to, computer science and analytics. A pilot program at a high school in Philadelphia, where she is based, taught the students how to build drones and the concepts of autonomous systems. A critical component of the foundation’s work is to help educate the high school faculty on how to deliver experiential learning.

“Here’s what the foundation did that I think is unique. In addition to focusing on the educators, we wanted to be sure the curriculum was baked into the overall curriculum of the school and not a discretionary after-school program,” says Leatherberry.

“It’s not one particular program or initiative that I am most proud of,” she says. “Rather, it’s the moments of impact, when someone reaches out to me and says, ‘You impacted my life.’”

Leatherberry is also bringing her expertise back to her alma mater, as a member of the College of Engineering’s Dean’s Advisory Board and as a member of BU’s Board of Overseers.

“The reason why I’m still engaged with BU and want to give back in a meaningful way is so I can bring what I have seen in my 27 years working in manufacturing with Deloitte. The marketplace and employers’ expectations are evolving; there are many opportunities to help build new skills in our future leaders,” she says.

“When you realize that what you’re doing is really affecting and touching somebody’s life—that can be powerful.”

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IEEE FOCUS: SMART CITIES These materials can lead to tuning sound waves to focus them on specific areas or to specific people. If three people are in a room and only one wants to watch TV, the sound waves could be focused to only that specific person and only let them hear the TV. “In addition to using metamaterials for research, I wanted to discuss the various applications of metamaterials for what society needs,” Zhang notes. “I think that’s the mission of engineering.”

The DeLisi Lecture continues the college’s annual Distinguished Lecture Series, initiated in 2008, which has honored several senior faculty members. The previous recipients are Professor Joyce Y. Wong (BME, MSE), Professors John Baillieul (ME, SE), Malvin Teich (ECE) (Emeritus), Irving Bigio (BME), Theodore Moustakas (ECE, MSE), H. Steven Colburn (BME), Thomas Bifano (ME, MSE, BME), Christos Cassandras (ECE, SE), Mark Grinstaff (BME, MSE, Chemistry, MED) and M. Selim Ünlü (ECE, BME, MSE).

Widely considered the father of the Human Genome Project, DeLisi was an early pioneer in computational molecular biology, and also made seminal contributions to theoretical and mathematical immunology. He currently serves as Metcalf Professor of Science and Engineering and continues to direct the Biomolecular Systems Laboratory, where more than 100 undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral students have trained.

As Dean of the College of Engineering from 1990 to 2000, he recruited leading researchers in biomedical, manufacturing, aerospace and mechanical engineering, photonics and other engineering fields, establishing a research infrastructure that ultimately propelled the college into the top ranks of engineering graduate programs. In 1999, he founded—and then chaired for more than a decade—BU’s Bioinformatics Program, the first such program in the nation.

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sensing on a cellular level and infrared detectors,” Zhang explains. The talk focused on the photonics and optical applications of MEMS. She uses metamaterials—synthetic composites of tiny structures that can exhibit properties that natural materials cannot—to develop sensors and actuators with novel features. Researchers can fill holes for specific needs by designing their own “material” and thus create devices with novel capabilities.

Metamaterials are used to affect waves of sound, light and electromagnetic radiation such as microwaves. “Their unique property lies in their structure and not in their chemical composition, so with the proper design at a certain frequency, you could gain properties like negative refraction. With this kind of artificial material we can focus light and create phenomena not possible with natural materials such as cloaking or invisibility,” Zhang says.

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rofessor Xin Zhang (ME, MSE, ECE, BME), recipient of the 2018 Charles DeLisi Award and Distinguished Lecture, presented “Tailoring Electromagnetic and Acoustic Waves with MEMS and Metamaterials” on April 12. The award recognizes faculty members with extraordinary records of well-cited scholarship and outstanding alumni who have invented and mentored transformative technologies that impact quality of life.

Zhang began her talk by describing microelectromechanical systems (MEMS); depending on her audience, she explains MEMS with different analogies, from a car, to a phone to elements of biology. MEMS integrates mechanical elements, sensors, actuators and electronics onto a common silicon chip through microfabrication technology.

“I have three MEMS research platforms that are all driven by important real-world applications such as sensors for harsh environments, bio-

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rofessor and Chair W. Clem Karl (ECE, SE) and Professor Paul Barbone (ME, MSE) have been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows.

“I’m honored to be chosen as an AIMBE Fellow and thrilled to join the growing group of fellows at Boston University,” says Karl. “The collaborative environment provided by BU College of Engineering has allowed me to thrive in the interdisciplinary world of biomedical engineering. It’s an exciting and impactful discipline.”

Karl and Barbone are receiving one of the highest professional distinctions accorded medical and biological engineers—the College of Fellows is comprised of the top two percent of medical and biological engineers in the country.

“There’s not much better than being honored for research work that on one hand is just fun, and on the other hand is so important to our society,” says Barbone.

Since 1991, AIMBE’s College of Fellows has led the way for technological growth and advancement in the fields of medical and biological engineering.

Karl joined the faculty in 1995 and is currently chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. His research interests are in the areas of computational imaging, statistical signal and image processing, estimation, detection, and medical signal and image processing. He has served as editor-in-chief of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Transactions on Image Processing and the inaugural editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging. He has also served on the IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors, the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board Strategic Planning Committee, the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging Steering Committee, and the IEEE Signal Processing Society Publications Board; and as general chair or co-chair for meetings such

Left: Professor and Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department W. Clem Karl (ECE, SE) receives a plaque commemorating his induction into the AIMBE College of Fellows.

Right: Professor Paul Barbone (ME, MSE) receives a plaque commemorating his induction into the AIMBE College of Fellows.

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Karl was elected to the College of Fellows for novel contributions to sparsity-based methods for medical imaging, statistical

image processing, and bio-image formation, and as a Fellow of IEEE. Barbone became a faculty member in 1999. His research is primarily in the areas of computational acoustics and solid mechanics, and he is renowned in the medical ultrasound imaging community for his work on quantitative elastography to noninvasively image and measure the mechanical properties of living tissue. He is being elected to the College of

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Fellows for combining advanced computation with biomechanical models to advance novel approaches to quantify biomechanical properties. His prior honors include a Fulbright Fellowship and the R. Bruce Lindsay Award from the Acoustical Society of America, and he was previously named Fellow of the Royal Society for encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce and Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America.

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bubbles—the bubble’s film partially reflects back light at its closely spaced surfaces, preferentially enhancing or decreasing the reflection of colors constituting the white light illumination. Ünlü uses this concept to detect nanoparticles as the presence of particles modifies the interference of light reflected from the sensor surface, producing a distinct signal that reveals the size of the particle (which is not otherwise visible under a conventional microscope). This has allowed Ünlü to quickly and accurately detect viruses in a blood sample. The technique doesn’t require the user to be highly skilled or trained, no sample preparation is needed and the instrument does the work—making it ideal to transfer to resource-poor areas.

Dal Negro has been elected for his numerous contributions to the optics of complex media that explained how electromagnetic waves interact with structurally disordered nanostructures and nanomaterials.

Optics is a branch of physics that studies how light behaves when it interacts with different substances and also includes the study of the properties of light. Understanding how light waves behave in these media allows researchers to engineer novel approaches that control and enhance the intensity of electric fields and increase the efficiency of key technological materials such as silicon at a nanoscale level. Dal Negro can use that knowledge to develop new devices for solid-state lighting such as LEDs, nanolasers for optical computing, biosensors and more efficient nanomaterials for solar energy technology.

Boas, Dal Negro and Ünlü join the ranks of numerous BU faculty members who have been elected to the Optical Society as Fellows.

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rofessor David Boas (BME, ECE), Professor M. Selim Ünlü (ECE, BME, MSE), and Associate Professor Luca Dal Negro (ECE, MSE, Physics) have been elected as Fellows of the Optical Society (OSA), a global society founded in 1916 that fosters optics and photonics research through their mission to promote innovation through shared knowledge and collaboration.

According to the OSA, “Fellows are members who have served with distinction in the advancement of optics and photonics. No more than 10 percent of the total OSA membership may be chosen as Fellows, making the process both highly selective and competitive.”

Boas has pioneered the development of functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)—a brain imaging technique that does not require the subject to sit completely still for long periods of time—and contributed other advances within biomedical optics. He was recently awarded a National Institutes of Health grant to build a wearable version of fNIRS to facilitate neurological research on mobile subjects.

Boas joined the faculty in 2017 and has quickly established relationships with faculty outside of engineering—his lab is collaborating with researchers in the Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences to allow them to study neural activity in stroke patients before, during and after therapy and in Psychological and Brain Sciences to study autism. In addition to funding the development of the mobile and wearable version of fNIRS, the grant will allow Boas to push out a more advanced version of the companion software with more technical features and lead international workshops on the technology and how to use it. “This is a great opportunity to bring fNIRS to BU, and grow the international community of closely collaborating users and technology developers,” he says.

The concept of light interference has been documented since the 1600s, but Professor M. Selim Ünlü has been able to apply the concept to enhance the light collection efficiency of photodetectors and to develop novel biological sensing and imaging technologies. Light interference can be seen in the colorful reflections created by soap

s the world becomes more connected through the internet of things (IoT), questions arise about how to use the resulting massive amounts of data to develop smarter policies and procedures. The April 2018 special issue of the journal Proceedings of the IEEE focused on smart cities and attempted to move the conversation forward about ways and means to build smart cities responsibly. Professor Christos Cassandras (ECE, SE) was invited to be one of three guest editors on the issue; he also co-authored one of the papers along with Professor Ioannis Paschalidis (ECE, BME, SE), who co-authored two.

Boston University was one of the first research institutions to focus on smart cities.

“As far back as 2007, we envisioned a city as an ‘enterprise’ modeled as a dynamic system and launched some of the first projects for what we eventually called smart cities,” Cassandras notes. “This was done under a National Science Foundation research grant

Ioannis Paschalidis (ECE, BME, SE)

with the cooperation of the City of Boston.”

The process for developing the special issue began over a year ago with Gilles Betis, the founder and chief executive officer of Orbicité, a consulting company dedicated to smart cities and entrepreneurship, and Carlo Alberto Nucci, a professor of electrical, electronic and information engineering at the University of Bologna in Italy, also serving as guest editors. Cassandras points out that a smart city can be defined a number of ways and, in this issue, they aimed to tackle how big data can be used in real-time to improve processes, policies and functionalities of a city. The issue covered topics including data collection and management, energy systems, infrastructures, mobility, transportation, health and social factors, citizen involvement and a collaborative economy.

A paper co-authored by Paschalidis and Cassandras details a way to alleviate traffic congestion without modifying infrastructure.

By routing drivers to paths that would benefit

overall traffic flow instead of letting drivers choose with individual preferences in mind, peak congestion can be reduced, leading to shorter travel times and a reduction in overall congestion.

Using real traffic data, the researchers devised a method to measure the effectiveness of both routing schemes; the first is the scheme under which the system currently operates, a driver-centric scheme, and the second is the new routing scheme that directs drivers to routes that would benefit the overall traffic flow and congestion. They were also able to quantify the shortcomings of the first relative to the second through what is known as the “price of anarchy,” which owes its name to the fact that selfish driving leads to inefficiency akin to anarchy.

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One offers a shorter driving time and uses the highway; the other is a bit longer and doesn’t use the highway. Most people would choose the shorter route, but if most drivers make similar selections, the highway will get congested and affect all. The new routing system would take that into consideration and seek to spread the traffic throughout the network, thus reducing overall congestion.

Many drivers use navigation systems or apps like Waze to find and pick their driving route, so integrating a new system for routes could be relatively simple.

A second paper from Paschalidis is also included in the issue that evaluates how electronic health records can be used to predict hospitalizations for patients with chronic conditions. By using the massive amount of data from the records, they developed an alert system for hospitals to pinpoint at-risk

patients and then prevent disease progression with treatment, thus avoiding costly hospitalization—electronic data is used to increase efficiency and lower the cost of health care. The researchers were able to use health records as the training tool in machine learning for novel algorithms and focused on predicting hospitalizations for patients with diabetes and heart disease. The algorithms were then evaluated for accuracy and interpretability, as it was important that the results be accessible to doctors and patients.

The results were algorithms that hospitals could implement into their electronic health records to indicate if a patient is at risk for hospitalization. Each hospital that adopted the practice could tailor the system to only send an alert based on the risk level with which they wish to operate; a hospital with a larger budget would most likely adopt an alert system with a lower risk. If the risk factor is set at a low threshold, more patients would hit it, alerting the hospital to reach out and potentially perform preventative care. This way, overburdened hospitals can still prevent hospitaliza-

tions with this algorithm, but focus on only the most at-risk patients. These algorithms help cut down costs because preventative medicine, when necessary, is significantly less expensive than hospitalization.

These two papers, along with the others in the smart cities special issue, provide ways to use the abundant big data to improve the efficiency of many practices. Instead of theorizing if such an algorithm could work or if routing drivers different ways would improve traffic, large data sets allow researchers to actually show it would work. Privacy has also come to the forefront of discussions concerning big data. The editors of this special issue point out that collaboration across disciplines would be the only way to effectively implement any new policy— something they call the smart city paradigm.

“As we look ahead, we expect the new ideas discussed in the special issue to plant the seeds for exciting research directions leading to realizable novel technologies and for new business models that cities will adopt,” Cassandras says.

Professor David J. Waxman (BME, Biology) received the 2018 Bernard B. Brodie Award in Drug Metabolism from the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics for his outstanding original research contributions in drug metabolism and disposition, particularly those having a major impact on future research in the field.

David J. Waxman (Photo by Lexi Pline) Assistant Professor Michelle Sander (ECE, MSE) was elected as an IEEE senior member and featured in the Optical Society of America December e-newsletter for a lecture she gave at Johns Hopkins University.

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Professor Enrico Bellotti (ECE, MSE) is the principal investigator of a new $1.25 million interdisciplinary center that will work with collaborators from the US Army Research Laboratory, industry and academia to develop new simulation and design methodologies for semiconductor materials and devices.

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Assistant Professor James Bird (ME, MSE) was recognized by the American Society for Engineering Educators in the summer edition of PRISM magazine as one of 20 high-achieving researchers and educators under 40.

Assistant Professor Ahmad ‘Mo’ Khalil (BME) has been selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering’s 2018 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, hosted at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts.

STUDENTS Graduate student Pu-Ting Dong (ECE) received the 2018 SPIE Translational Research Best Paper Award.

Three undergraduate students, Hannah Levin (ME), Phillip Teng (CE) and Sergei Posnov (EE), took home second prize for a research paper at the regional American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Student Conference in April 2018.

The Boston University Rocket Propulsion Group brought their latest project to Boston Public School Mendell Elementary on March 22, where 30 nine-year-olds painted and decorated the outside of the rocket before the summer launch.

An Electrical and Computer Engineering senior design team won a $5,000 Technical Design Project grant from the American Public Power Association’s (APPA) Demonstration of Energy and Efficiency Developments program. The award also includes $3,000 for the team to present their project at the APPA Operations & Engineering Conference next April.

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University of California, San Francisco and earning his PhD in chemical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. His research is in the development of mammalian synthetic biology for cancer immunotherapy and other medical applications; his most recent paper introduced a new, potentially safer and more effective form of CAR-T therapy, which re-engineers the body’s immune system to fight cancer.

In recognition of his innovative research, Wong received the BU College of Engineering Early Career Excellence Award in 2018, the National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award in 2013 and the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award in 2016.

Assistant Professor Wilson Wong’s (BME) research was chosen by STAT, a Boston-based, health-and-sciencefocused news website, to participate in its bracket of scientific research projects called STAT Madness.

Professor Ji-Xin Cheng (ECE, BME), Assistant Professor Wilson Wong (BME) and Assistant Professor Mary Dunlop (BME) won a $1.5 million grant from the Department of Energy to develop the next generation of biofuel.

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Wilson Wong Receives Young Investigator Award ssistant Professor Wilson Wong (BME) is the 2018 recipient of the ACS Synthetic Biology Young Investigator Award, which recognizes the contributions of scientists who have made a major impact on the field of synthetic biology early in their careers.

Assistant Professor Mary Dunlop (BME) received the award in 2017; her research focuses on systems and synthetic biology with an emphasis on feedback in gene regulatory networks.

“Past winners, such as our own Dr. Dunlop, are all highly accomplished synthetic biologists that I admire and respect,” says Wong. “I am honored to receive this award.”

Wong joined the BU faculty in 2012 after completing his postdoctoral position at the

Professor Muhammad Zaman (BME, MSE) was honored with the Rice 360° Inspiration Award, presented to global health professionals who serve as an inspiration to others, from Rice University.

n the summer edition of PRISM magazine, the American Society for Engineering Educators named Assistant Professor James Bird (ME, MSE) one of 20 high-achieving researchers and educators under 40.

“I’m honored and humbled to be included among such talented scholars,” Bird said. PRISM recognized these faculty members for a demonstrated talent for teaching, research with a realworld impact, or, oftentimes, both. All were chosen through recommendations by their schools and colleagues, along with research by the PRISM staff.

Bird was acknowledged for his research in understanding how microscopic aerosol droplets form from bursting bubbles, which could be extremely useful in improving climate modeling and disease transmission.

He was also recognized for his contributions to science communications—as his research has a visual element, he supplements his publications with video to convey his findings in a publicly accessible way—and has also developed a graduate course on science communications.

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ENG Graduates Urged to Become Lifelong Learners and Innovators Using the skill of the engineer to improve society during a time of rapid technological change was the theme of the Boston University College of Engineering’s undergraduate and graduate Commencement exercises this past May. At separate ceremonies, more than 700 bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees were awarded to the Class of 2018.

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With more than 380 graduates, the undergraduate Class of 2018 gathered at Agganis Arena for Commencement exercises on May 19 to celebrate its accomplishments and graduation from the College of Engineering.

“In a few days you’ll have your degree and, in principle, for the first time in your life, other than reading things for your profession, no one will force you to read any other kind of book,” said Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen.

“But if you want to live a holistic life and be a contributing member of society, read a good fiction book. Don’t just go to a movie; read a good nonfiction book. Don’t just look at art; go to a museum of art. Don’t just listen to music; go to the symphony or a concert. Live a full life for what it means to be a human being beyond just your profession.”

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Biomedical Engineering major Ryan Lim (ENG’18, MED’22) spoke on what it meant to him to be graduating as a Societal Engineer. “Personally, I understood that it was something that the college wanted us to develop into,” he noted.

He spoke about two principles that he believes are paramount to living as a Societal Engineer. First, he said, graduates must expand their lifelong learning to outside the sphere of traditional engineering, and second, they must acknowledge and act on the responsibility that accompanies the higher education they have received. He pointed out that the assembled graduates were lucky to have been granted the opportunity to pursue their dreams.

“I hope that wherever those dreams take us, that we advocate for those who do not have our same privilege,” he said. “I hope that we will all continue to make our communities better places, especially today when the ideas of isolationism and fear of those who are different seem to be gaining traction. The term ‘Societal Engineer’ is what shaped us and will continue to be what unites us after today. And I hope that each of us will continue to live our lives by its principles.”

Jim Heppelmann, president and chief executive officer of PTC—a global software company that delivers a technology platform and solutions to help companies design, manufacture, operate and service things for a smart, connected world—presented the Commencement address, which focused on the accelerating progress of technology and how graduates fit into that world. Heppelmann graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in mechanical engineering and an emphasis on computer-aided design; his company’s technology helps other companies quickly unlock the value now being created at the convergence of the physical and digital worlds through pathways such as the internet of things and 3D-printing.

“When I graduated about 30 years ago and I was sitting where you are sitting, I thought that it was a great time to graduate with an engineering degree,” Heppelmann told the graduates. “But right now, this is an amazing time to graduate with an engineering degree.”

He spoke of his journey to becoming an engineer and his career development during a time when the digital and physical were becoming more interconnected, and told the graduates that right now is a time when there is a fundamental and massive force of disruption and transformation—and that they are at the epicenter of that change. He also addressed the interfaces between physical, digital and human capabilities and how each one has its strengths.

“With the image problem the technology industry now has, we have to think about how we can help humans better leverage their strengths,” he said. “The line between human and digital is relatively primitive and I’d argue that it hasn’t changed much in three decades. We have to learn how to balance all the improvements the machines have made to digital technology to find a better way to pass some of that capability onto humans as well.”

Dean Lutchen presented the Outstanding Professor of the Year Award to Associate Professor Michael Smith (BME, MSE) and the Faculty Service Award to Associate Professor Anna Swan (ECE, MSE).

Department Awards for Teaching Excellence went to Associate Professor Joe Tien (BME, MSE), Assistant Professor Bobak Nazer (ECE, SE) and Lecturer Enrique Gutierrez-Wing (ME).

Two days before in the Case Center Gymnasium, more than 280 master’s and 59 PhD graduates were celebrated for their achievements while their friends and families looked on.

“All of our success as a college is due to a lot of things, but primarily on the backs, so to speak, on the incredible energy, creativity and passion of graduate students,” Lutchen said, adding, “We could not get this good this fast without your talent.”

“Your PhD and your master’s degree prepares you to continuously question the basic tenents of your discipline to advance the forefronts of knowledge and, as engineers, convert that knowledge into technologies that will improve the world we live in,” he told the graduates.

“Almost all of society’s grand challenges and opportunities will be intimately linked to technology, from transforming cancer care to improving urban function and resilience to tragedies and natural disasters and creating personalized healthcare. We continue to innovate at an exponential pace, and, if we are going to go forward, your generation is obligated to understand how that technology will impact all people and make the planet sustainable for all life. You need to embrace thinking outside your personal field and be involved in politics and advocation.”

Boris Shakhnovich, a 2005 BU graduate who earned a PhD in bioformatics and systems biology, spoke about how his education as a scientist made him a better businessman. “What I want to tell you standing here 15 years to the day after I sat where you are sitting now, is that you know nothing, but can do anything,” he said. “Do not hide behind the skills you’ve developed or the knowledge you’ve obtained. Do not let anyone convince you that lack of experience is a disadvantage.

“Use the tools you were given, the philosophy of the scientific method, to apply yourself to new and unexplored frontiers where you can make the most impactful contributions,” he added. “And trust in yourselves; you are in the best position to be the leaders and innovators of tomorrow.” —liz sheeley

Top: Biomedical engineering undergraduates Zachary Say (left) and Joel Caffey (both ENG’18) celebrate their graduation.

Right: Biomedical engineering undergraduate Abigail Sasdelli (ENG’18) and Associate Professor Douglas Densmore (ECE, BME) at the undergraduate Commencement ceremony in May. E N G I N E E R FA L L 2 0 1 8 W W W. B U . E D U / E N G

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Dear Alumni, Parents and Friends, Thank you for a great year! The support of our donors and volunteers—for whom

we are most grateful and consider our essential partners—has made it possible for the college to continue to develop and strengthen the real-world programs and experiences necessary for our students to succeed in the digital economy. Whether it is the dean’s new directive in establishing required courses in data science for all undergraduates (starting this fall), or developing a new and easy way for alums and students to connect for those all-important internships, or raising funds toward the building of a new biomedical teaching and innovation center to meet the demands of future healthcare in digital and precision medicine, the college is focused on providing a solid foundation in engineering skills for the future leaders of society.

ENG students will also benefit from other philanthropically supported signature programs such as the Distinguished Undergraduate Research Fellowships, awarded to our highest-achieving students; the Technology Innovation Scholars Program, in which our students interact with, inspire and enlighten K–12 students as to the positive impact engineers can have on the world; and the Summer-Term Alumni Research Scholars, which provides living expenses in Boston during the summer while students work and are mentored by faculty in research labs.

This year also presented a very special opportunity to honor one of the college’s longest serving and esteemed faculty members, Professor Ted de Winter. Within a very short period of time, his former students and other alumni generously provided the $500,000 minimum required to establish the endowed Ted de Winter Distinguished Faculty Fellowship Fund. We will continue to seek additional gifts so that we may convert this fellowship in the near future to the Ted de Winter Career Development Professorship (with a required minimum of $1.25M) and then to the Ted de Winter Professorship (with a required minimum of $2.5M). It is with sincere appreciation that we acknowledge all those who helped to honor this extraordinary teacher, mentor and friend.

As we move into the final year of the BU campaign Choose To Be Great, it is worth noting that since the campaign began in 2010, ENG has had a 50 percent increase in leadership gifts. Year-to-date, we have achieved $88M in total fundraising with a goal of $100M by September 2019. It is with your continued and valued support that I believe we can accomplish our goal as a community committed to realizing the transformative power of an education in engineering on both an individual’s life and on the future welfare of mankind.

Chris Rothko, son of artist Mark Rothko and parent to Mischa (ENG’17), speaks to ENG alumni at an exhibit displaying his father’s work at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Dr. Brian Dunkin (ENG’85), medical director of the Houston Methodist Institute for Technology, Innovation and Education, hosts ENG alumni for a tour of the institute.

With gratitude,

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Mr. Angelo L. Chiango (’65), North Reading, Mass.

Mr. Winthrop B. Osborn (’53), Mountain Home, Idaho

Mr. Sidney T. Kimber (’66), Cotuit, Mass.

Mr. Harold C. Knapp (’55), Chatham, Mass.

Mr. Willard W. Corliss (’67), Lunenberg, Mass.

Mr. Philip H. O’Brien (’58), North Reading, Mass.

Mr. George Cuker (’68), Brookline, Mass.

Mr. Paul H. Scannell (’59), Wynantskill, N.Y.

Mr. Michael A. Bushman (’69, ’72), Greenville, Maine

Mr. Harry M. Hughes (’61), Port Orange, Fla.

Mrs. Linda S. Hasley (’82), Eighty Four, Pa.

Mr. Alan R. MacLeod (’61), Chelmsford, Mass.

Mr. Wel C. Sim (’89), Woodbury, Mass.

Mr. Thomas D. Stavris (’62), Dennis, Mass.

Mr. Daniel J. Holmes (’07), El Paso, Tex.

Lisa Drake ENG Assistant Dean for Development & Alumni Relations

PHOTOGRAPH BY FRANK CURRAN (MFA) (TOP)

Mr. Perry C. Wilson (’51), Darien, Conn.

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Putting Theory into Practice

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Mikhail Gurevich (ENG’07, Questrom’12) accepts his Distinguished Young Alumni Award from the College of Engineering in 2011.

to me—classes that combine not only the theory that we learn, but also the practicality aspect,” he notes.

Gurevich also has lent his philanthropic support to projects like the Engineering Product Innovation Center, which provides

facilities where students can immerse themselves in hands-on learning. “I’m really happy at the trajectory that the College of Engineering has taken since I left,” he says. “I think it’s a whole other level of institution from when I went there to now.” —liz sheeley

PHOTOGRAPH BY VERNON DOUCETTE

ikhail Gurevich (ENG’07, Questrom’12) has always been a self-starter, and he wants to make sure that College of Engineering students have all the tools necessary to be self-starters themselves. His introduction to programming came at age eight when a friend showed him simple hacks in the original Mortal Kombat game. After that, he started learning how to code, which over the years evolved into learning different programming languages and new operating systems.

“One thing that BU trained me well in was learning how to learn,” he says. “When you go out into the real world there’s a lot of stuff you don’t know. You’re trying to accomplish goals, but there are questions like, What do you do after the research? How do you put stuff together? Everything is not clear-cut, so you’ve got to go and figure it out. A big part of navigating my way through that was using the skills that engineering at BU provided me.”

Gurevich is a managing partner at Dominion Capital in New York City, an investment firm he started in 2011. “We invest across a broad range of classes, everything from real estate to capital markets, private and public markets, and most recently started getting into blockchain and crypto currencies,” he says.

Before moving into finance, Gurevich started two technology companies, ClickFacts, a web security and analytics company, and ZepInvest, a distribution network for financial services. He founded his first company while a sophomore in college and worked to develop it while still completing his degree.

Because of his extensive experience starting companies, Gurevich has spoken to ENG students as part of Engineers in the Real World and has served as a judge for electrical and computer engineering senior design projects. The college recognized him in 2011 with the Distinguished Young Alumni Award and in 2014 with the Alumni Association Young Alumni Award.

“I see what the ENG curriculum looks like now, with more hands-on classes, which was the most interesting and exciting part of school

Betty Horna (Questrom’07) ■ Paula Horowitz ■ Hiva Hosseini (ENG’18) ■ Peter Houston (ENG’58) and Ann Houston Alexandra Howton (ENG’14) Hengyu Hu (ENG’14) ■ Ting-Chang Chu and Miranda Hu ■ ■ Yihao Hu (ENG’18) ■ Shuran Huang (ENG’15) Taylor Hubbard (ENG’16,’21) ■ Annemarie Hudak (ENG’90) Anna Hughes (ENG’17) ■ ■ Arthur Hughes (ENG’62) and Pearline Hughes Charles Hughes and Linda Hughes ■ ■ Lindsay Hulley (ENG’17) ■ Vanessa Hummel (ENG’83) and Dana Hummel David Hunter (ENG’83) Willard Hurd (ENG’89) ■ Joseph Hurwitz (CFA’58, ENG’69) Patrick Husted (ENG’16) ■ Sharon Hyzy (ENG’06) Robert Iacovone (ENG’69) and Carolyn Iacovone ■ Hany Ibrahim (ENG’93) Maria Iennaco (CAS’18, ENG’19) ■ Majid Ikhwan (ENG’03) and Larisa Epshteyn (Questrom’06, COM’06) Anastasios Ioannidis (ENG’87) and Margarita Zega Faraz Iqbal (ENG’18) ■ Gerard Irmer (CGS’63, ENG’64) and Lois Irmer Maamoun Ismail (ENG’91) ■ Divya Israni (ENG’18,’18) ■ Brandon Itkowitz (ENG’99,’08) Anna Jablonka (ENG’94) and Rafal Jablonka Jerold Jaeger (ENG’93) and Robin Jaeger ■ Monica Jain (ENG’08, MED’12) Rahul Jain (ENG’18) ■ Rishi Jain (ENG’17) ■ Andrew Jalali (ENG’10) ■ Peter Jalbert (Questrom’93) and Laura Jalbert Raymond Jalette (ENG’71, MET’74) and Shaolin Pan ■ ■ Cary James (ENG’10) Richard Jamieson (ENG’62) and Jeanine Jamieson ■ Ryan Jamieson (ENG’18) Kenneth Jang (CGS’18, ENG’18, CAS’18) ■ Haris Javed ■ Sarah Jenkins (ENG’18) ■ Thomas Jenkins, Jr. and Linda Jenkins ■ ■ Adam Jennings (ENG’02) ■ Archana Jeyaram (ENG’17) ■ Jiayue Jiang (ENG’18) ■ Di Jin and Zhen Wu ■ Rubing Jin (ENG’14) ■ Yuan Jing (ENG’02,’05) Alfred Johnson (ENG’64) and Rafaele Johnson ■ Stephen Johnson (ENG’21) ■ Aleksander Jonca (ENG’10) Austin Jones (ENG’15) ■ Hyun Jung (ENG’93) ■ Michael Kagan (ENG’83) and Karen Kagan ■ Konstantin Kalaitzidis (ENG’80) and Polixeni Kalaitzidis ■ Lauren Kalfin (ENG’14) Ita Kane (ENG’12) Steven Kane (ENG’63,’71) and Susan Kane (DGE’61, Wheelock’63) Priya Kapadia (ENG’18) ■ Joe Karam (ENG’18) ■ Paul Karger (ENG’00) and Pamela Vargas John Kariouk (ENG’84) and Kathryn Kariouk ■ Elaine Kasparian ■ Walter Katuschenko (ENG’60) and Jacquelynn Katuschenko

Nicholas Katzenberger (ENG’94) and Gretchen Katzenberger (COM’92) Edward Kazanjian, Jr. (ENG’68) and Mary Kazanjian ■ Michael Kazenel (ENG’80) and Susan Caplan (BUTI’80) Askar Kazimov (Questrom’18, ENG’20) ■ Xiaoshan Ke (ENG’19) ■ Bonnie Kee-Bowling (ENG’86) and Dwight Bowling Jessica Keenan (ENG’19,’19) ■ Laura Kegelmeyer (ENG’86,’88) ■ Ryan Kelly (ENG’18) ■ Jakov Kendes (ENG’18) ■ Ricardo Kenny (ENG’83) Traci Kent (ENG’14) Vinay Khemlani (ENG’18) ■ Khalil Khouri (CGS’10, ENG’14) ■ Debra Kiger (ENG’82) and John Kiger ■ Brian Kim (ENG’18) ■ Brian Kim and Yong-Kyu Kim ■ ■ Donghoon Kim (ENG’17) ■ Jessica Kim (ENG’18,’18) ■ Walter Kimball (ENG’61) and Gloria Kimball Swapnil Kinattumkara (ENG’18) ■ ■ Theodore King (ENG’94) Zachary King (ENG’18) ■ Laura Kinnicutt ■ ■ Rachel Kinoshi (ENG’16) ■ Thomas Kinst (ENG’91,’94) and Traci Kinst (ENG’92) Gary Kline (ENG’84,’87) and Lauri Kline Joshua Kline (ENG’09,’12,’14) and Amy Kline (ENG’12) Ronald Knepper and Helen Knepper ■ Ethan Knight (ENG’16) Valerie Koch (ENG’17) ■ Paul Kocincki (ENG’66) and Lindsey Kocincki Michael Koeris (ENG’10) Brian H. Koh ■ James Koh and Esther M. Koh ■ Constantinos Kokkinakis (ENG’93) ■ Ben Kooy (ENG’06) Georgi Korobanov (ENG’06) Natalya Kotlyar (ENG’09) ■ Christopher Kraemer (ENG’93) ■ Steven Kraplin ■ Vyacheslav Kraplin (MET’18) ■ Roy Kraus and Nancy Kraus ■ Graciela Kravtzov (MET’01) and Jose Ferreyra ■ ■ Maria Krepcio and Christopher Krepcio ■ ■ Michael Kreppein (ENG’87,’89) and Blair Kreppein (MET’89,’96) Anush Krishnan (ENG’15) ■ Kayla Kruper (ENG’12) ■ Maria Kulinski (ENG’06,’08) ■ Subi Kulla and Olimpiada Kulla ■ Srilalitha Kumaresan (ENG’13,’15) ■ Colin Kunze (ENG’22,’22) ■ Meghan Kupratis (CAS’18, ENG’18) ■ Cathy Kurata (ENG’06) Fedor Kurkin (ENG’18, Sargent’18) ■ Jayson Kurrle (ENG’07) ■ William Kurtz (ENG’60) and Ruth Kurtz Abena Kwakyi (ENG’11) Caitlin Kwan (ENG’18) ■ Adrienne Kwee (ENG’21) ■ Dimitrios Kyranos (Questrom’17, CGS’17) ■ Alana LaBelle (ENG’00) ■ Rebecca LaCroix (ENG’13) Andy Lai (Questrom’06) ■ Michael Laiman (ENG’86) Ronnie Lajoie (ENG’84) BenLakin (ENG’15,’15) Richard Lally (ENG’18) and Regina Lally ■ ■ Francine Lalooses (ENG’02,’03) Stephen Lalooses (ENG’99) Emily Lam (ENG’14,’16,’21) Alex Lammers (ENG’22,’22) ■

Dawna Lamson ■ Xiaodong Lan (ENG’15,’15) ■ ■ Erin Landry (ENG’18) ■ David Languedoc (ENG’87) and Catherine Languedoc Jesadang Laohaprasit (ENG’97) Adam LaPrad (ENG’09,’11) and Ajda LaPrad ■ Nilsu Larkin (ENG’13) Stephen Larkin and Kathryn Larkin ■ ■ Steven LaRochelle (ENG’18) ■ Zachary Lasiuk (ENG’17) ■ Enrique Laso Sanz and Teresa Kubusch ■ ■ Justin Latona (ENG’95) Robin Lauw (ENG’18) ■ Joel Lavoie (ENG’18) ■ Jared Lawson (ENG’18) ■ John Le (ENG’18) ■ Cheryl Lee (ENG’16) ■ Hyohyung Lee and Youngseon Kang ■ ■ Kristen Lee (ENG’11) Theodore Lee (ENG’00) ■ Zheng Lee (ENG’84) ■ Keng Lei (ENG’11,’14) Martin Leibold (ENG’89) and Kathleen Leibold Darry Leightcap and Stacey Leightcap ■ Jose Lemus (ENG’17) ■ Peter Lenk (ENG’78) and Jean Lenk Thomas Lentz (ENG’83) and Cynthia Lentz ■ Edward Leonard (ENG’00,’05) and Dana Leonard ■ John Leonard (ENG’83) and Anne Leonard ■ Daniel Leonardis (ENG’04) Charay Lerdsudwichai and Saipin Lerdsudwichai ■ ■ Napassorn Lerdsudwichai (ENG’18) ■ Max Lerman (ENG’12) and Paulina Lerman (COM’11) Sara LeSage (ENG’18) ■ Hannah Levin (ENG’18) ■ Andrew Levy (ENG’18) ■ Ang Li (ENG’18) ■ Er Li (ENG’13, Questrom’19) ■ Eric Li (ENG’18) ■ Henry Li (ENG’18, Questrom’18) ■ Jeffrey Li (ENG’09, GRS’09) Xiaonan Li (ENG’12) Chao-Yu Liang (ENG’86) and Hsiu-Ling Liang ■ Ho Kai To and Joanne Liang ■ Shan Liang (ENG’17) ■ Mary Liau (ENG’88) ■ Joseph Liba, Jr. (ENG’18) ■ Joshua Liebowitz (ENG’16) Alyssa Liem (ENG’16,’21,’21) ■ Kah Whye Lim (ENG’18) ■ Andrew Lin (ENG’18) ■ Bosheng Lin (ENG’98) ■ Jeffrey Lin (ENG’18) ■ David Lindquist (ENG’82) and Therese Lindquist Helen Lindsay (ENG’18) ■ Ronald Listro (ENG’78) Huabin Liu (CAS’18, ENG’18) ■ Luca Liu (ENG’19) ■ Mike Liu (ENG’14) ■ Mubing Liu (ENG’16) ■ Tiancheng Liu (ENG’18) ■ Victor Liu (ENG’10) Ye Liu and Jinsong Liang ■ ■ ■ Yide Liu (ENG’18) ■ Yijian Liu (ENG’18) ■ Yong Liu (ENG’02) and Jinou Xie ■ Brian Lo (ENG’13) ■ Jonathan Lobo (ENG’10,’12) ■ Oded Loebl (ENG’91) and Adi Loebl ■ David Loehle and Diane Loehle ■ ■ Eric Loehle (ENG’18) ■ Kenneth Lofstrom (ENG’18) ■

Diana Lohmeyer (ENG’88) and Edwin Lohmeyer, Jr. Peter Lombardozzi (ENG’09) ■ Jozsef Lore IV (ENG’18) ■ Reed Lorimer (CAS’18, ENG’18) ■ Elias Loucagos (ENG’14) ■ Ashley Lovell (ENG’08) ■ Evan Lowell (ENG’16) ■ Robert Loycano, Jr. (ENG’90) Jeannie Lu (ENG’95,’96, MET’00) Li Lu ■ Yisi Lu (ENG’16) James Luck (ENG’93, CAS’94) Debra Luczkiewicz and Kenneth Luczkiewicz ■ ■ Brian Luis (ENG’18) ■ Prashant Luitel (ENG’14) Margaret Lundin (ENG’73) Lingqi Luo (MET’12, ENG’17) and Huiqing Si ■ Michael Lybass (ENG’17) ■ ■ Barbara Lynch (ENG’82) and Gregory Sprunger Chuan Ma (ENG’19) ■ Lawrence Mabius and Kathy Mabius ■ Colin MacDougall (CGS’18, ENG’19) ■ Ryan Mack (ENG’19) ■ Brian J. Macomber (ENG’21) ■ Harrison Macris (ENG’09, MET’11) ■ Rangil Mada (Questrom’91) and Shannon Mada James Madigan (ENG’64) and Alice Madigan Michael Magoffin (ENG’88) and Theresa Magoffin ■ Austin Magsig (ENG’18) ■ Kenneth Maguire (ENG’68) Gopi Maguluri (ENG’04) ■ Yasemin Eken and Kevin Maher ■ ■ Atiya Mahmud (ENG’10) ■ Brigitte Majewski (ENG’93) Fabio Malangone (ENG’09,’10) ■ Harjeet Malhi (ENG’21) ■ Sean Malley (ENG’19) ■ Rajiv Manchanda (ENG’89) ■ Ambika Manhapra (ENG’19, CAS’19) ■ Charles Manning (ENG’12) Joshua Manning (ENG’18) ■ Andrea Mannix ■ Edward Mansfield (ENG’64,’68) and Dolores Mansfield Ning Mao (ENG’18,’18) ■ Mark Marano and Judith Marano ■ ■ Samantha Marfoglio (ENG’18) ■ Emily Margolis (ENG’18) ■ Jonathan Margolis (ENG’18) ■ Jordann Marinelli (ENG’18) ■ JoAnn Marshall-Hobbs (ENG’94) ■ Cam Martin (ENG’14) ■ Harold Martin (ENG’82) James Martin (ENG’98) ■ Justin Martin (ENG’09, Questrom’16) and Stephanie Martin (CGS’06, Sargent’08) ■ Kyle Martin (ENG’07) Peter Martin (ENG’70) and Irene Martin ■ Scott Martin ■ Jeffrey Marx (ENG’01) Joanne Masek (ENG’90) and William Masek (ENG’90) ■ Garth Mashmann (ENG’06) ■ Donald Massett (ENG’84) ■ Miles Massidda (ENG’18) ■ Sherrill Burgess (Questrom’84) and John Massidda ■ Michael Mastromonaco (ENG’94,’99) ■ Peter Masucci (ENG’70) and Kathy Masucci (CAS’71) Michael Matatia (ENG’82) and Susan Matatia ■ R. H. Mathews (ENG’65) and Kathleen Mathews

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Michael Matos (ENG’18) ■ Yuya Matsuda (ENG’20) ■ Joy Matsui (ENG’05) George Matthews (ENG’07) Emil Matula, Jr. (ENG’88) and Kathleen Matula ■ Jeffrey Maurer (ENG’24,’24) ■ Michael Mauro (ENG’13) ■ Vincent Mauro (ENG’80) and Michele Mauro ■ Kenneth Maxwell (ENG’66) and Donna Maxwell ■ Richard McAllister (ENG’18) ■ Jeffrey McAulay (ENG’05) Stephen McBride (ENG’71,’72, Questrom’73) and Christine McBride Conor Mccarron (ENG’14,’16) Kevin McCarthy and Luanne McCarthy ■ ■ Lawrence McCarthy, Jr. (ENG’69) ■ Steven McCarthy (ENG’85) and Miriam McCarthy Justin McClellan (ENG’04, Questrom’12) ■ Ryan McCue (ENG’04) Michael McCullough (ENG’03) and Lindsey McCullough Francis McDermott (ENG’62) Connor McDonnell (ENG’18) ■ Joshua McDonough (ENG’16) ■ Tom McGann III (ENG’88) Brendan McGeary (ENG’18, Questrom’18) ■ Sean McGovern (ENG’19, Questrom’19) ■ James McHugh (ENG’19) ■ Loretta McHugh (ENG’00) and Evan McHugh Stacy McKenna (MET’19) and Kevin McKenna ■ ■ ■ Brett A. McKenzie (ENG’11) John McLaughlin (ENG’92) and Anna Hundt Jody McLean (ENG’04, SPH’08) Matthew McLellan (ENG’18, CAS’18) ■ Neil McManus (ENG’59) and Judith McManus Lexyne McNealy Jackson (ENG’02) John McNeill (ENG’94) and Kristina Wile Alice McWade ■ ■ Armando Medeiros (ENG’85) ■ Hemal Mehta (ENG’04) and Parikha Mehta (ENG’02,’03) ■ Philip Melchiorre (ENG’84) Pieter Melotte (ENG’18) ■ Preetika Melville (ENG’12) Nicholas Memme (ENG’16) ■ Lynn Mendenhall (ENG’85) ■ Kenneth Mendes and Marline Mendes ■ ■ Lingmin Meng (ENG’01) and Chenhao Yuan ■ Kevin Mercer (ENG’15) ■ Marie-Elle Merchant (ENG’18) ■ David Merer (ENG’86) and Michelle Merer ■ Brian Meyers (ENG’12) ■ Ragaie Michael and Grace Michael ■ ■ Renae Michael (ENG’20) ■ David Miller (ENG’91,’94) and Barbara Miller Deborah Miller (ENG’86, MET’92) Frederick Miller (ENG’85) ■ Gregory Miller (ENG’13,’13) ■ ■ Jacob Miller (ENG’08) James Miller (ENG’84) Arthur Milley (ENG’60) Constance Milley ■ Regan Mills (ENG’99) and Isabel Mills ■ Avijit Minocha (ENG’18) ■ Stuart Minshull (ENG’14) ■ Zhixuan Mo (ENG’18) ■ Henry Moeller (ENG’86) and Karen Moeller ■ Samuel Moijueh (ENG’15) ■ Md Saiful Arefin Mojumder (ENG’20) Macie Monborne (ENG’21) ■ Gregory Montemurro (ENG’90, Questrom’14) ■

John Moore and Barbara Moore ■ Paul Moore ■ Jonathan Mooty (ENG’90) Michel Moravia (Questrom’18,’20, ENG’20) ■ Mark Moreira (ENG’84) and Gina Moreira ■ Michael Moreira (ENG’11) and Samantha Moreira (ENG’11,’15) Yosuke Mori (ENG’87) and Chiharu Mori Fred Morrison (ENG’62) and Barbara Morrison (CAS’64) Moriison Morrison and Sarojini Morrison ■ ■ John Morrissey (ENG’88) and Deborah Morrissey ■ Ronald Morrissey (ENG’92,’01) Robert Morse, Sr. (ENG’63) Michaela Moynihan (ENG’18) Alex Moyse (ENG’18) ■ King Mui (ENG’15) Catherine Mulhearn (ENG’88) ■ Emma Mulligan (ENG’18) ■ Abhishek Mundra (ENG’14) Emily Murphy (ENG’18, CAS’18) ■ Shawn Murphy (ENG’08) ■ Elizabeth Murray and Michael Murray ■ ■ Timothy Murray (ENG’84) and Susan Murray ■ William Murray, Jr. (ENG’06) Alyssa Myszewski (ENG’18) ■ Adam Nadeau (ENG’08) ■ Vithika Nag (ENG’18) ■ Bhupendra Nagpure (ENG’10) ■ Amartya Naik (ENG’21) ■ Hayato Nakamura (ENG’19) ■ Masato Nakanishi (ENG’11) and Kirsten Nakanishi ■ Van Galaxy Naldoza (ENG’20) ■ Vincent Naldoza and Sylvia Naldoza ■ ■ Tania Nauman (ENG’17) ■ Suha Nawaz (ENG’20, Questrom’20) ■ Jacob Nazarian V (ENG’18) ■ Anila Ndreu-Lamaj ■ ■ Dylan Neidorff (ENG’09, MET’12) Jacqueline Nelson (ENG’19) ■ Tammra Nelson (ENG’84) Ben Newbery (ENG’18) ■ Brandon Ng (ENG’18) ■ Kenneth Nguyen (ENG’89) Nam Nguyen and Hoa Tran ■ ■ Pho Nguyen (ENG’75) and Vi Nguyen ■ ■ Thanh Nguyen (ENG’18) ■ Tony Nguyen (ENG’19) ■ Ben Nichols (ENG’14) Calin Nicolescu (ENG’18) ■ Jacob Nikolajczyk (ENG’18) ■ Norman Hom and Susan Nonaka-Hom ■ Jacob Noordzij (Questrom’18) and Corinne Noordzij ■ ■ ■ Maarten Noordzij (ENG’19) ■ Corey Noriega, Jr. (ENG’18) ■ William Norman (ENG’18) ■ Bruce Norris (ENG’64) and Mary Lynne Norris (CAS’65) Cameron Nurse (ENG’18) Kabir Tripat Oberoi (ENG’18) ■ Mark O’Brien (ENG’14) ■ Walter Obrochta (ENG’18) ■ Angelica Ochoa (ENG’13) ■ Burt Ochs (ENG’83) and Cindy Ochs ■ Grace O’Donnell (ENG’17, CAS’17) ■ Christopher Ogorzalek (ENG’09) ■ Harshavardhan Ogoti (ENG’20) ■ Alex Oleinik (CAS’16, ENG’18) ■ Ekaterina Oleinik ■ ■ Isabella Olivares (ENG’17) ■ Craig Olson (ENG’90) and Dayna Olson David Oluwadara, Jr. (ENG’17, Questrom’18) ■ R. B. Omo III (ENG’97) John Orr (ENG’11)

Olivia Osbourn (ENG’20) ■ Dennis Osgood (ENG’07) ■ Alexandra Osman (ENG’18) ■ Isabela Osorio Moran (ENG’18, Questrom’18) ■ Susan O’Sullivan (ENG’03) David Ott (ENG’92) ■ David Ouk (ENG’12) ■ Daniel Oved (Questrom’18, ENG’18) ■ Vivek Pachaury and Madhurima Pachaury ■ ■ Darshan Padmanabhan (ENG’18) Robert Paglierani (ENG’66) and Susan Paglierani Sushrut Palatkar (ENG’16) Michael Paley (ENG’95) and Janice Paley (CGS’90, COM’92) Joseph Palladino (ENG’82) and Diane Wilan ■ Joseph Paller (ENG’20) ■ Cristina Palumbo (ENG’95, MED’99) and Michael Palumbo (COM’95) Laura Pan (ENG’89) and Victor Pan Zixuan Pan (ENG’15) Taki Pantazopoulos (CGS’80, ENG’83) and Elaine Pantazopoulos Nicole Papalambros (ENG’18, CAS’18) ■ Anton Paquin (ENG’18) ■ Jan Pararas (CAS’76) and John Pararas ■ ■ Jeong Min Park (ENG’18) ■ Joon Park (ENG’67) and Hyonsook Park Faiz Parvaz (ENG’20) ■ Ioannis Paschalidis and Georgia Mourtzinou ■ Christina Pasdo (ENG’91) and Michael Pasdo Joseph Passarelli (ENG’88) Mark Pastarnack and Michele Pastarnack ■ Akash Patel (ENG’99) and Sagun Patel Nikit Patel (ENG’18,’18) ■ Pavan Patel (ENG’08) ■ Soniya Patel (ENG’18) ■ Alex Patow (ENG’15) Maia Patrie (ENG’18) ■ Chrysanthea Paul (ENG’90) and John Paul (CAS’90) Carolyn Paulus ■ ■ Vivian Pazmany (CAS’18, ENG’18) ■ Patrick Pease (ENG’11,’12) Kylie Pedersen (ENG’13) Paul Pederson (ENG’90) and Martha Pederson Julien Penders (ENG’06) Peng Peng (ENG’16) ■ Juan Peralta (CAS’18, ENG’18) ■ Samantha Perez Menendez (ENG’20) ■ Javier Perez-Andreu (ENG’80) and Marta Perez (Questrom’80) ■ Wyatt Perry (ENG’19) ■ Alexandria Persaud (ENG’18) ■ Philip Persaud (ENG’21) ■ Jessica Peters (ENG’18) ■ Marissa Petersile (ENG’15) ■ Donna Petherbridge and Martin Petherbridge ■ ■ Luat Pham and Trang Pham ■ ■ Trung Pham (ENG’19) ■ Douglas Phillips (ENG’66) and Joyce Phillips ■ Zachary Phillips (ENG’09) ■ Paulina Phu (ENG’16) John Piantedosi (ENG’61) ■ Maricor Piloneo (ENG’90) ■ Karl Pilz (ENG’00) and Heather Pilz Joao Pina (ENG’87,’92) Errol Pinkney (ENG’02,’04) ■ Jocelin Pinto (ENG’18) ■ Amy Pinto-Quintanilla (ENG’21) ■ Allyson Pipkin (ENG’99) ■ Anthony Pippo, Jr. (ENG’67) Joyce Pippo ■

Anthony Pirri (ENG’64) and Catherine Pirri Thomas Piscatelli, Jr. (ENG’04) and Kristen Piscatelli (Sargent’05,’07) ■ Ian Pitcairn (ENG’79) Angela Pitter (ENG’86, MET’93) and Richard Wright ■ Dennis Poe and Milja Poe ■ Robert Polimeno (ENG’92) and Jennifer Polimeno (CAS’92) ■ Samuel Polio (ENG’09,’12,’14) ■ Matthew Pollack (ENG’14) Emily Polson (ENG’13) ■ Hannah Polster (ENG’17) ■ Rachel Poole ■ Meagan Poulin (ENG’14) ■ Rasna Prakash (ENG’99) and Ashish Prakash Bruce Pratt (ENG’69) and Maureen Pratt Carol Prevost ■ ■ Richard Prevost (ENG’67) ■ ■ ■ Christopher Prior (ENG’97) ■ Cheryl Pritchard (ENG’86) Ben Pritz (ENG’14) David Provencher and Mary Murphey ■ Edgar Puesan (ENG’14) Joseph Puglise (ENG’75,’77) and Nora Puglise ■ Michael Pulliam (ENG’83) and Jacquett Pulliam ■ Scott Pulliam and Landra Pulliam ■ Zenan Qi (ENG’12,’15) ■ Juncheng Qian (ENG’19) ■ Ruohui Qiao (ENG’14) ■ Stephen Qually (ENG’72, Questrom’73) and Linda Qually (Wheelock’70) Barbara Quinn and William Quinn ■ ■ Thomas Quinn (ENG’21) ■ Sowmya Ramakrishnan and Rajaram Radhakrishnan ■ ■ Rakesh Singh and Vibha Rajat ■ ■ Shrey Rajgarhia (ENG’20, Questrom’20) ■ David Rak (ENG’21) ■ Israel Ramirez and Libia Ramirez ■ ■ Freddie Ramos, Sr. and Yvette Ramos ■ ■ Marc Randell (ENG’99) and Abigail Randell (COM’00) ■ Ashvika Rao (ENG’21) ■ Eric Rapp (ENG’18) ■ Mithil Kishor Raut (ENG’18) ■ Anoop Ravilla (ENG’14, MED’18) ■ Jason Raymond (ENG’99,’02) Agnes Rayome ■ Nate Reddi (ENG’18) ■ Herbert Redman (ENG’63) and Joan Redman ■ James Reed (CGS’85, ENG’88) Nilgun Reed ■ Gilbert Reese (ENG’00,’06) and Tara Rabuse (CAS’00) Roberto Reif (ENG’08) and Kathy Reif (LAW’09) Patrick De La Torre and Monica Reinoso ■ ■ Don Reny, Jr. (ENG’88) and Jennifer Reny ■ Katherine Reny (ENG’18) ■ Dorie Resnik (ENG’92) ■ Alejandro Restrepo (ENG’02) and Melina Restrepo ■ Sandra Reulet (ENG’86) and David Reulet Jinara Reyes (CAS’88, Questrom’99) ■ Brady Reynolds (ENG’18) ■ Linda Reynolds (ENG’89) Joo Sub Rhee (ENG’06) and Eunice Kim (CAS’08) ■ Gregory Richardson (ENG’92) and Julie Richardson ■ Katharina Riepl ■ Adam Riley (ENG’07) Sabrina Riley (ENG’18) ■ Christopher Ring (ENG’95) and Jessica Ring (CAS’97) ■ Allen Riss (ENG’84) ■

Raquel Rivera (ENG’96) Wesley Rivera-Calva (ENG’18) Amy Robbins (ENG’18) ■ Beth Robert (ENG’89,’04, Questrom’04) ■ Holly Roberts (ENG’17, Sargent’17) ■ Nicolas Robertson (ENG’19) ■ Michael Robichaud (ENG’11) and Natalie Robichaud (ENG’11) Henry Robinson (ENG’57) and Carol Robinson Lisa Robinson Schoeller (ENG’82, Questrom’98) and Richard Schoeller Claire Rodman (ENG’18) ■ Moises Rodriguez (ENG’17) Nickholas Rodriguez (ENG’18) ■ Lisa Rogers (ENG’00) and Robert Rogers III (CAS’00) Sarah Rogers (ENG’20, Sargent’20, CAS’20) ■ Joseph Rollin (ENG’05) Irving Roman, Jr. (ENG’95,’98) and Arelice Roman (Sargent’01) ■ Anthony Romero (ENG’18) ■ Steven Romero and Molly Romero ■ ■ Lisa Rooker (ENG’13) Robert Ropp (Questrom’74,’80, ENG’79) and Alexia Jacobs Lesbeth Roque (ENG’21) ■ Lourdes Roque and Francisco Roque ■ ■ Calvin Rose (ENG’19) ■ Nicholas Rosenberger (ENG’20) ■ Kenneth Ross (ENG’95) Michael Rothko (ENG’18) ■ Michael Rothman (ENG’64) Evan Roux (Questrom’19, ENG’19) ■ Donald Rowe (ENG’83) Sheela Rowles (ENG’85,’89) ■ Marvin Roxas (ENG’13) ■ Rohan Roy (ENG’12) Hayden Ruiz (ENG’18) ■ Michael Runci (ENG’68,’74, Questrom’74) and Janet Runci ■ Derek Russell (ENG’88) and Elizabeth Russell ■ Aidan Ryan (ENG’19) ■ Jason Ryan (MET’03) and Martha Ryan ■ ■ Tyler Ryan (ENG’17, MED’21) ■ Robert Sabia (ENG’87) and Kathy Sabia Bogac Sabuncu (ENG’18) ■ Eduardo Salazar (ENG’18) Farhat Saleem (ENG’03) ■ Reza Salehi (ENG’88, Questrom’04) ■ Lewis Salerno and Barbara Salerno ■ ■ Saeedeh Salimianrizi (ENG’15) ■ Alex Samaha (ENG’19) ■ Elena Sanchez Albinana (ENG’21) ■ Nayan Sanjiv (CAS’18, MED’18) ■ Sivaramakrishnan Sankarapandian (ENG’18) ■ Yoko Sano (ENG’92) ■ Ling Santora and Mark Santora ■ Kailen Santos (ENG’18, CAS’18, COM’19) ■ Julia Santos Nothaft (ENG’21) ■ Christopher Sanzo (ENG’87) and Roberta Groch (CAS’87) ■ Peter Sapp and Ellen Sapp ■ ■ Bradley Sauln (ENG’14) and Chelsea Sauln Steven Saunders (ENG’89) and Susan Saunders Arpan Savla (ENG’05) ■ Crystal Sayles (CGS’75, ENG’78) ■ Kathryn Scheerer (ENG’21) ■ Perry Schein (ENG’12) Matthew Schickler (ENG’97) and Vanessa Vera (ENG’97) ■ Jasper Schilling (ENG’18) ■ Thomas Schlatter (ENG’94) and Tania Schlatter (CFA’90) Eric Schmitt (ENG’11) ■ Robert Schneider (ENG’79) and Diane Schneider ■

Jonathan Scholl (ENG’85) and Teresa Scholl Jeffrie Schreier (ENG’08) James Schulman (ENG’18) ■ Karl Schultejans and Christina Schultejans ■ ■ Brian Schulz (ENG’82) Frank Schwamborn (ENG’16) Stephanie Sczylvian Mills (ENG’07) ■ Adil Seddiq (ENG’02) Albert Seeley (ENG’85, MET’95) and Lauren Seeley Rajendranath Selagamsetty (ENG’14,’21,’21) Akram Semakula (ENG’21) ■ Matthew Seminerio (ENG’08) Ryan Servais (ENG’18) ■ Christopher Sgrignari (ENG’18) ■ Masoud Shafa and Manijeh Shafa Daniel Shaffer (CAS’14, ENG’14) ■ Nirmit Shah (ENG’16) ■ Pooja Shah (ENG’14) Ronak Shah (ENG’99) and Angela Shah Ronak Shah (ENG’21) ■ Simran Shah (ENG’19) ■ Ushir Shah (ENG’98) Soroush ShaKib (ENG’86) ■ Deepak Shamdasani (CGS’85, Questrom’87) and Lavina Shamdasani (ENG’97) ■ Sandra Shanaberger (ENG’82) and William Warner Michael Shanler (ENG’97) and Amy Shanler (CAS’96, COM’96,’04) Katherine Shannahan (ENG’20) ■ Neal Sharma (ENG’01) and Logan Sharma (Sargent’02) ■ Sahil Sharma (ENG’18) John Sheffield (ENG’91) Jiayi Sheng (ENG’17,’17) ■ Skye Shepherd (ENG’20) ■ Eric Sheppard (ENG’83) and Veronica Sheppard Joseph Shifrin (ENG’11) Dustin Shigaki (ENG’15,’16) Ryan Shimizu (ENG’19) Gordon Shogren (ENG’59) and Frances Shogren Chang Shu (ENG’01) and Ping Shen Nir Shukrun (ENG’21) ■ Sharon Shukrun and Sammy Shukrun ■ ■ Paul Siem (ENG’94) ■ Mark Sika (ENG’01) ■ Mohinder Sikka (ENG’97) ■ Graham Silva (ENG’18) ■ Rhonda Silva (CAS’15, ENG’15) ■ Satyajit Simhadri (ENG’19) ■ Eran Simhon (ENG’16) ■ Elena Simoncini (ENG’10) Brittany Simone (ENG’09) ■ Amanda Simoni (ENG’18) ■ Christopher Simons (ENG’15) Courtney Singer-Coseglia (ENG’18, CAS’18) ■ Vikas Singh (Questrom’21, ENG’21) ■ Panagiotis Siozios (ENG’21) ■ Elly Sirotta (ENG’01, Questrom’08) and Stacey Sirotta (Sargent’01,’03,’08) ■ Harold Sit (ENG’76) ■ Matthew Siwkiewicz (ENG’16) ■ Georgios Skoufalos (ENG’15) ■ Kevin Slaboda (ENG’84) ■ Thomas Slinker (ENG’81) ■ Theodore Smigelski (ENG’14) James Smith (ENG’18) ■ John Smith (ENG’63) Nikolas Smith (ENG’21) ■ John Snyder (ENG’17) ■ Michael Snyder (ENG’14) Steven Rhejohn So (ENG’19) ■ Donald Soisson and Edwina Soisson ■ ■ Tatiana Sokolinski (ENG’15) ■ Sheldon Solow (ENG’06) ■ Anthony Solt (ENG’18) ■

Lee Solt and Elizabeth Solt ■ ■ Aaron Sorrin (ENG’18) ■ James Soutar, Jr. (ENG’64) and Marcia Soutar ■ Megan Spangler (ENG’95) Joshua Spaulding (ENG’08) ■ Katherine Spignese (ENG’85) Robert Spitaels and Ann Spitaels ■ Arun Srinivasan (ENG’97,’98) ■ Peter Staats (Questrom’76) John Stampfel (ENG’90) ■ Robert Stanley (ENG’18) ■ Laura Stefanski ■ Allan Steingisser (ENG’99) and Gail Steingisser (CGS’98, Wheelock’00,’01) Nicholas Steinke (ENG’00) and Diane Steinke Jane Stepak (ENG’78, CAS’78) Tamara Stephen (ENG’92) Michael Stephenson (ENG’16,’18) ■ Allison Stern (ENG’18) ■ Emily Stern (ENG’16) Gina Stern (ENG’97) and Eric Rajterowski ■ Joshua Stern (ENG’18) ■ Mark Stesney (ENG’91) Margaret Stevens (ENG’87) and S. H. Stevens Susan Stevens (ENG’89) and Paul Stevens ■ James Stewart (ENG’64) William Stewart (ENG’89) ■ ■ Jerome Stidham (ENG’84) Nicholas Stiegman (ENG’12) Olivia Stoddard (ENG’18) ■ Norman Stolack (ENG’62) ■ ■ Andrew Stoycos (ENG’18) ■ Randal Struckus (ENG’84) and Laurie Guptill (CFA’77) ■ Gabriella Stueber (ENG’14) Henry Stueber and Deanna Stueber ■ ■ Timothy Styslinger (ENG’90,’92) Austeja Subaciute (ENG’20) ■ Bharat Sukhwani (ENG’11) ■ Todd Sukolsky (ENG’13) Jonathan Sukovich (ENG’08,’13) ■ Christopher Sullivan-Trainor (ENG’13, Questrom’19) Alex Sun (ENG’19) ■ Yingjie Sun (ENG’13) John-Michael Sungur (ENG’11) Priya Swamy (ENG’96) and Prithvi Sankar Stephen Swann and Tanya Swann ■ ■ Margaret Swanson (ENG’16) ■ Patrick Sweeney (ENG’85) and Sherri Sweeney ■ Charles Sweet (ENG’91) and Julia Sweet John Swoboda (ENG’17) ■ Edward Symonds (ENG’87) and Cathy Symonds ■ John Szczypien, Jr. (ENG’66) and Diane Szczypien Wun Yung Sze (ENG’20, CAS’20) ■ James Szender (ENG’03,’05) ■ Marcos Szydlo (ENG’88) and Faith Szydlo (MET’84) ■ Brian Taboada (ENG’89) ■ Tatiana Tabrani (ENG’20) ■ Snehalatha Talikacharla Kandala and Anand Bukkarayasamudram ■ ■ Ronald Tallon and Sherry Tallon ■ Sucheta Tamragouri (ENG’18) Chinh Tan (ENG’86,’88) and Yue Zhang Chui-Kit Tang (ENG’83) ■ Ed Tang (ENG’97) Min Tang-Schomer (ENG’06) Darrell Tanno (ENG’80) and Deborah Tanno (Questrom’81) Roberta Tassinari (ENG’88) and Karen Tassinari ■ Stefano Tasso (ENG’13) Raymond Taylor (ENG’08) Jennifer Tchir (ENG’91) ■

Oleg Teplyuk (ENG’18) ■ Emilio Teran (ENG’15, Questrom’16) ■ Maya Terhune (ENG’18, CAS’18) ■ Tansukh Thanki (ENG’71) and Hema Thanki Lisa Theobald (MET’95) and Carl Theobald ■ ■ Charles Thomas (ENG’03,’04) and Jennifer Thomas ■ Sarah-Grace Thomas (ENG’02, MET’05) and Jacob Boucher (COM’99, MET’13) ■ ■ Nicholas Thomas (ENG’18) ■ Zachary Thompson (ENG’18) ■ Mark Thorley (ENG’09) ■ Joshua Ting (ENG’18) ■ Ike Tingos (ENG’91,’94) and Artemis Tingos Flemming Tinker (ENG’99) Jorge Tizol (ENG’77) and Vilma Rivera ■ Christian Tjia (ENG’15) ■ Bonnie To (ENG’18) ■ Tszhang To (ENG’08,’13) ■ Daniel Tokar (ENG’62,’64, Questrom’64) and Taffy Pettit Dale Tollman (ENG’18) Samuel Tomp (ENG’21) ■ Richard Tong (ENG’06) Alfredo Torrejon (ENG’80) Manuel Torres (ENG’90) and Dorothy Torres Emanuel Torti (ENG’79) Paul Toste (ENG’84) and Patricia Toste Randolph Tow (ENG’66) and Susan Tow ■ Heather Towey (ENG’14) Ian Towill (ENG’15) ■ Heather Tracey (ENG’91) Hieu Tran (ENG’07) Peter Tranoris (ENG’16) Micaela Trexler (ENG’16,’17) Harrison Tross ■ Robert Trottier (ENG’88) and Robyn Trottier Aleksey Trubitsyn (ENG’08) and Maria Burtseva (CAS’10, GRS’10) Tibor Trunk (ENG’99,’00) ■ Michael Tsang (ENG’02) ■ Kadin Tseng (ENG’74) Kevin Tseng (ENG’91) Nicole Tunick (ENG’16) ■ Lukasz Turolski (ENG’07) Kerry Twibell (ENG’00) ■ Georgia Tyner (CGS’81, ENG’85) Eric Ulin (ENG’18) ■ Isioma Utomi (ENG’07) Ned Utzig (ENG’86) ■ Stephen Valdesuso (ENG’18, CAS’18) ■ Michael Valerio (ENG’80) and Elizabeth Valerio (CAS’80) ■ ■ Vineet Vallam (ENG’16) ■ Pien Van Westendorp (ENG’21) ■ Guy Vandevoordt and Mady Vandevoordt ■ Richard Vanetzian (ENG’60) and Eleanor Vanetzian Teena Varghese (ENG’12) ■ Almir Velagic (ENG’05) and Elma Kadic ■ Anjanesh Venkatesh (ENG’13) Glenda Ventura (ENG’90) and Vicente Ventura Syed Naufal Bin Veqar (ENG’12) ■ Ellen Verdile ■ ■ German Viana (ENG’82) ■ Guillermo Vidaurreta ■ ■ Alfred Villa (Wheelock’49,’60) ■ Evan Vincent (ENG’16) and Phuong Vincent (ENG’15) ■ Vite Vitale and Linda Vitale ■ Bong Vo and Wendey Wong ■ ■ Gui Von Zuben (ENG’13) Gregory Wagner (ENG’96) and Lisa Wilsbacher Ayan Waite (ENG’18) ■ Henry Walaszczyk (ENG’81) and Susan Walaszczyk Lisa Wall (ENG’81) ■

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Baxter Walsh (ENG’61) Edmund Walsh, Jr. (ENG’83,’83) and Jane Walsh Gary Walsh (ENG’11,’13) and Carolyn Walsh Thomas Walsh (ENG’01) and Kelly Walsh (ENG’02,’04) ■ Bonnie Walton (ENG’19) ■ Michael Waluk (ENG’93) ■ Anthony Wang (ENG’18) ■ Ben Wang (ENG’16) Caoyue Wang (ENG’19) ■ Hongchuan Wang (ENG’13) Ren Wang (ENG’18,’18) ■ Richard Wang (ENG’07) ■ Sen Wang (ENG’18) ■ Yu Wang (ENG’01, GRS’06) ■ Yuanpei Wang (ENG’19, CAS’19) ■ Joseph Ward (ENG’18) ■ Sarah Ware ■ ■ David Warner (ENG’60) and Philippa Warner James Warren (ENG’20) ■ Peter Warren (ENG’73) and Pamela Warren John Washington and Jamillah Washington ■ ■ Max Wasilewski (CAS’21, ENG’21) ■ Mary Wassenberg (ENG’90) and Michael Wassenberg Anirudh Watturkar (ENG’21) ■ Suhas Watturkar and Seehma Watturkar ■ ■ Daniel Weaver ■ ■ Maureen Weaver ■ ■ Brandon Webster (ENG’18) ■ Ann Weeks (ENG’80) and Eric Lustig Steven Weibel (ENG’89,’91,’97) and Cristina Weibel (GRS’98) Norman Weinberg (ENG’64) and Sandra Weinberg Jeannette Wellman (ENG’87) ■ Changtai Wen and Hong Guo ■ ■ Hanqing Wen (ENG’16,’16) ■ Joel West (ENG’57) and Elizabeth West Brian Wherry (ENG’98) Fabio White (ENG’95) and Theresa White ■ Heather White (ENG’92) and Darwin White ■ Andrew Whiting (ENG’02) and Amanda Whiting ■ Barrett Whitman (ENG’56) and Joyce Whitman ■ Alex Whitnall (ENG’08) ■ Denise Wierzbicki ■ ■ Grayson Wiggins (ENG’21) ■ Kimberly Wiggins and Michael Wiggins ■ ■ Daniel Wiley (ENG’17) ■ Rachel Wilhelm (CAS’19, ENG’19) ■ Joseph Wilinski, Jr. (ENG’09) ■ Zachary Wilkerson (ENG’19) David Wilsey (ENG’83) and Naomi Wilsey ■ Megan Wimmer (ENG’21) ■ Dylan Winchell (ENG’19) ■ Edward Wingfield (ENG’61) and Patricia Wingfield Robert Winnett (ENG’12) Allison Winter (ENG’19) ■ Philip Winterson (ENG’62) and Barbara Winterson Jack Wisnosky (ENG’18, CAS’18) Steve Witkowski and Laura Witkowski ■ ■ ■ Andres Witzke (ENG’17) ■ Marvin Wolf ■ Yimer Wolle and Abebech Kassa Hailemairam ■ ■ Drew Wolos (ENG’18) ■ Eric Womer (ENG’12) ■ Alex Wong (ENG’15) Edward Wong (ENG’61,’69) and Katherine Wong ■ Hasting Wong (ENG’67,’68) and Josephine Wong (GRS’68)

Mary Wong (ENG’84, MET’88) and Ronald Wong ■ Wei Wong (ENG’18) ■ Sue Wong-Lee (CAS’75, ENG’89) ■ Zachary Woo (ENG’18) John Wright ■ Nicholas Wright (ENG’00) Barry Wu (ENG’86,’92) Chih-Cheng Wu (ENG’21) ■ Elizabeth Wu (Sargent’20) ■ I-Hsien Wu (ENG’05) Jiaqian Wu (ENG’19) ■ Tianming Wu (ENG’07) ■ Tiffany Wu (ENG’18) ■ Angela Xie (ENG’12) ■ Xinyu Xing (ENG’00) ■ Haiyun Xu (ENG’19) ■ Yisha Xu (ENG’18) ■ Isabella Yachkouri (ENG’18, CAS’18) ■ Sherry Yan (ENG’17) ■ ■ Yui Ham Yan (ENG’16) ■ Zhuohao Yang (ENG’18) ■ Holson Yap (ENG’05,’06) ■ Kathryn Yates (ENG’16) ■ Martin Yates (ENG’08) Youming Ye (ENG’14) Robert Yee (ENG’85) ■ Jessica Yen (ENG’10) William Yen (ENG’17) ■ ■ Jamie Yieh (ENG’96) Jian Yin (ENG’10,’16) ■ Anthony Yitts (ENG’88,’92) and Lisa Yitts (MET’93,’95) Alex Yokubison (ENG’21) ■ Connor Yong (ENG’18) ■ Joseph Young (ENG’95) ■ Julie Young (ENG’07) ■ Angela Yu (ENG’19) Jiaying Yu (ENG’18) ■ Xinke Yu (ENG’14) Yi Yu ■ Kang Yuan (ENG’13) and Xiangying Qian ■ Zihao Yuan (ENG’22) ■ Alberto Zacarias (ENG’89,’90) Gracemarie Zambuto (ENG’90) and Domenic Zambuto, Jr. ■ Tyler Zamjahn (ENG’17) ■ Naz Zamoyski (ENG’78, Questrom’78) Guylherme Zaniratto (ENG’98) Dean Zeldich (ENG’18) ■ Lara Zelman (Questrom’02, MET’16) ■ ■ Qingtai Zhai (ENG’04,’07) Yanrong Li and Meizai Zhan ■ ■ Chengshi Zhang (CAS’18, ENG’18) ■ Chentian Zhang (ENG’16,’16) ■ Jiang Zhang (ENG’12) ■ Qian Zhang (ENG’99) ■ Tiansheng Zhang (ENG’17,’17) ■ ■ Wei Zhang (ENG’03) ■ Yanjun Zhang and Yajing Li ■ ■ Felix Zhao (ENG’21) ■ Zehua Zhao (ENG’17) ■ Junwei Zhou (ENG’19) ■ Lan Cheng and Baosen Zhou ■ ■ Yuan Zhou (ENG’18) ■ Jialin Zhu (CAS’19, ENG’19) ■ Jingjing Zhu (ENG’17) ■ Zachary Zimits (ENG’19) ■ Kimberly Zubris (ENG’11) and Cyril Harakal ■ Jeffrey Zuccaro (ENG’05) and Rebecca Zuccaro (COM’05) Zamir Zulkefli (ENG’05,’05) ■ Edward Zuniga (ENG’18) ■ Steven Zysman (ENG’85)

CORPORATIONS & FOUNDATIONS $250,000–$499,999

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.

$100,000–$249,999

Anonymous American Cancer Society Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Burroughs Wellcome Fund Communication Technology Services LLC General Electric Company GlaxoSmithKline Foundation The Hartwell Foundation Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Association of Oil & Gas Producers Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Massachusetts General Hospital (Leona & Harry Helmsley Char. Trust) Northrop Grumman Corporation Philips Healthcare Robert Bosch LLC Verizon Foundation

$50,000–$99,999

American Chemical Society Dermasensor, Inc. IBM Corporation The MathWorks Inc. Novartis Institutes For BioMedical Research, Inc. Osram Sylvania Inc. Purdue Univ. (Keck Fo.) W. M. Keck Foundation

$25,000–$49,999

The Appleby Foundation The Argosy Foundation The Benevity Community Impact Fund Google, LLC Jiangsu Sainuogelan Medical Technology Co The Maccarone Family Fund of Goldman Sachs Mass General Hosp (Jiangsu Sainuogelan Med Tech Co) Massachusetts Clean Energy Center NAMICS North American R&D Center Orthopaedic Research & Education Foundation PTC, Inc. Toyota Info Technology Center U.S.A., Inc. View, Inc. The W. Bradford Ingalls Charitable Foundation Trust Yobe Inc.

$10,000–$24,999

Anonymous Anonymous Accenture LLP American Heart Association AMETEK Foundation, Inc. Biogen, Inc. Insurance Services Office, Inc. International Foundation For Ethical Research National Philanthropic Trust Onboard Security Inc. PharmAkea Verisk Analytics

$5,000–$9,999

Anonymous Boston Scientific Hamilton Company Kanae Foundation for the Promotion of Medical Science LabCyte, Inc. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Boston Scientific Corp) Nanovalent Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The New York Community Trust North Plains Road, Llc Thermo Fisher Scientific

$2,500–$4,999

Austin Healey Club Of New England Inc. eM-Tech George & Nancy Savage Living Trust Osteosynthesis and Trauma Care Foundation

$1,000–$2,499

A(Line), Inc BNY Mellon Charitable Gift Fund The Elizabeth Bascom Charitable Lead UniTrust Inventagon, LLC Lisa W. Gill Trust Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust, Inc. Roney-Fitzpatrick Foundation

$500–$999

Data Network Associates Pfizer, Inc.

Introducing the College of Engineering’s next major initiative, the Biomedical Engineering Teaching & Innovation Center.

This cutting-edge facility will be available for students of all backgrounds and disciplines to work on the future of the intersection of engineering and healthcare.

$250–$499

Alliance Data Systems Francis A. Harrington Jr. Revocable Trust

$1–$249

Ann T. Spitaels, Living Trust BGR Hospitality Just Give Margaret Wang Insurance Agency, Inc. Robert H. Mathews Trust

MATCHING GIFTS $5,000–$9,999 BAE Systems

$1,000–$4,999

The Boeing Company General Electric Company Verizon Communications

Students will have access to state-of-the-art labs and equipment to expand their learning experiences and foster their innovative ideas.

$500–$999

Analog Devices Inc. Barclays Capital C. R. Bard Foundation General Electric Foundation Johnson & Johnson Microsoft Corporation Raytheon Company UBS United Technologies Corporation

$250–$499

Battelle The Benevity Community Impact Fund Boston Scientific Ciena Corporation Hewlett-Packard Company IBM Innovations in Optics, Inc. Northrop Grumman Corporation Parker Hannifin Corporation The Plymouth Rock Foundation TriPyramid Structures, Inc.

$1–$249

AbbVie, Inc. Apple, Inc. Eli Lilly and Company Ernst & Young LLP JustGive Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Medtronic, Inc. Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Nationwide NextEra Energy Company Teradata Textron Inc. Western Union Foundation

Support student innovators and entrepreneurs of all disciplines by contributing to the Engineering Annual Fund!

Visit bu.edu/eng/alumni/BME-TIC to make your gift.

Connect with the ENG Alumni Facebook group at facebook.com/BUengalumni.

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NONPROFIT US POSTAGE PAID BOSTON MA PERMIT NO. 1839

FACTS AND FIGURES

$92.9 MILLION

Total amount of research-related expenditures

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BU’s graduate programs ranking has risen 19 places since 2005, the most of any top-50 school, according to U.S. News & World Report

ENG grads are ranked #8 in midcareer salary according to Payscale

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