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Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
ECE Distinguished/Khoury Professor Yun Raymond Fu and William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia were named Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery. Fu for contributions to representation learning, computer vision, face and gesture recognition and Melodia for contributions to open radio access network architectures and AI-native wireless networks.
Engineering in Action
Making Notable Advancements in Neuro-Engineering
Spencer Lake Jacobs-Skolik, BS electrical and computer engineering, shares his experience leading research, becoming a published author, and earning a Goldwater Scholarship – all as an undergraduate. Learn how Northeastern University’s College of Engineering provides research opportunities you can’t find anywhere else, and how those experiences prepare passionate students for successful careers.
Co-op for a Wireless World
Sara Garcia Sanchez, PhD, electrical engineering, came to Northeastern University from Spain to study wireless communications in a high-level international environment. In addition to cutting-edge research, her experimental work brought her to a co-op with IBM, studying the use of the extremely high-frequency Millimeter Wave Band for sensing and communication.
World Renowned Co-op Program
Sofia Vanessa Benitez Quevedo, BS, electrical engineering, completed three co-ops near and far including iRobot as a systems engineer, Flex in California working on emerging tech on the internet of things, and Starry, a start up in Boston using cutting-edge technology for the next generation.
Getting a Competitive Edge on Co-op
Noah Lichtenstein, BS, computer engineering and computer science, says the integrated way of learning and experience with co-op will allow him to jump in to a job when he graduates. So far he’s had a co-op at Starry, an internet startup, and Amazon Robotics as a firmware engineer, and feels this experience will give him a decent leg up.
Recent News
Understanding What Causes Autonomous AI Systems to Misbehave
ECE Assistant Professor Lili Su explains that recent incidents of autonomous AI systems acting out of bounds stem from training gaps and human configuration errors rather than malicious intent.
Optimizing Marine Sensors to Capture Detailed Ocean Data Efficiently
ECE Associate Professor Milad Siami, in collaboration with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), is leading a $612,062 NSF grant for “Energy-Aware Deployment and Scheduling for Sparse Ocean Sensor Networks.”
Northeastern helps lead $15M Army-funded center for next-generation sensing and communications
Josep M. Jornet and Tommaso Melodia, co-director and director of the Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems (INSI) at Northeastern University and faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, are co-principal investigators on a new $15 million research center funded by the Army Research Office to advance secure sensing, imaging and wireless communications.
Patent for Innovative System to Boost Speed and Efficiency in Quantum Computing
ECE Assistant Professor Xufeng Zhang was awarded a patent for “Slow-wave hybrid magnonics based on interacting magnons and spoof surface plasmon polaritons.”