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TDL crop_LightingLab_0799Thomas DC Little
College of Engineering
Boston University

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Division of Systems Engineering 

Associate Dean of Educational Initiatives, Associate Director, NSF Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center

 

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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Boston University
8 Saint Mary’s Street,Boston, MA 02215, USA

E-mail: tdcl at bu.edu

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Marybel Boujaoude, Yangyang Zhang, and Thomas Little receive grant for Pilot Indoor Air Quality Sensor and Portal Campus Climate Lab Research Projects 2023-2024.

Konrad, Ishwar, Little, and Gevelber awarded US patent for Fusion-based occupancy sensing for building systems US Patent No. 11,936,688 B2 2021

Lam and Little awarded US patent for Apparatus and Method for Zone-Based Positioning US Patent No. 11,255,946 B2 2022

Iman Abdalla awarded Best Computer Engineering Dissertation for 2020-2021 at PhD Commencement. May 14, 2021.

MenuNav awarded Societal Impact Award for Senior Design Project, May 13, 2021. MenuNav (Shreya Banga, McKenna Damschroder, Vanessa Giron, Se’Lina Lasher, Kaito Yamagishi) created an iPhone and Android application for increasing independence of blind persons using a novel aural and haptic feedback system to navigate crowdsourced restaurant menus.

Using COSSY people counting technology to create safe and energy-efficient buildings Article at BU ENG. And in BU Brink

Lam awarded 2019 Editor in Chief Choice Award, for article appearing in Chinese Optics Letters. April 2020.

Lam and Little awarded US patent for Ray-Surface Positioning System and Method US Patent No. 10,527,712 B2

Seminar (webinar) on Coexisting RF and Optical Wireless Deployments (CROWD). February 28, 2020. Details

Elgala and Little awarded US patent for system and method for embedding phase and amplitude into a real-valued unipolar signal. US Patent No. 10,491,305 B2

Bishop, Little, Morrison, and Imboden awarded US patent for varifocal, tilt, tip, piston MEMS Micromirror for lighting and communications applications. US Patent No. 10,451,808 B2

Iman Abdalla receives Best Paper Award at the IEEE Globecom Conference, 2018 for the paper "Impact of Receiver FOV and Orientation on Dense Optical Networks"

Presented by Prof. Abbas Jamalipour

Little and Elgala awarded US patent for combining data modulation with dimming for lighting systems. Patent No. 9,621,268 B2

Konrad, Ishwar, Little, and Gevelber awarded $1M Department of Energy/ARPA-E project to build an occupancy sensor to reduce energy costs in commercial buildings Visit

Michael Rahaim is now at the University of Massachusetts at Boston (UMass Boston) Visit

Jessica Morrison joins the highly-selective Cyclotron Road Cohort Three to develop dynamic lighting control technologies as part of newly-formed Helux Technologies, Inc. Read

Helux Technologies, Inc. formed to provide novel applications of dynamic light control Read

BU Today story about new patent on sensory lighting by LESA researchers. Read

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