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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.
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Designing a More Affordable, Sustainable Marimba
Amartya Bhattacharya, E, computer science and computer engineering, tested the physical and acoustic properties of 17 different materials, finding that hickory and cherry wood show the most promise as sustainable, affordable alternatives to endangered rosewood for constructing marimba practice bars.

Bringing AI and Robotics to New England’s Seafood Industry
ECE Professors Taskin Padir and Hanumant Singh are collaborating on the newly launched, National Science Foundation-backed “Seafood Engine” in New England, a multi-state initiative utilizing a $15 million grant to revitalize the regional seafood industry and reduce the U.S. seafood trade deficit through advanced technologies like robotics and AI.
Northeastern University Unveils GENESIS: First Agentic AI System to Take 5G/6G RAN Features from Specification to Over-the-Air in Hours
GENESIS, a groundbreaking AI framework developed by Northeastern’s Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems (INSI) to autonomously translate 5G/6G specifications into over-the-air code in hours, was featured on PR Newswire.
Creating Shock-Resistant Sensors That Won’t Break Under Pressure
Research conducted by the Institute for NanoSystems Innovation on “Toward Enhanced Inertial Sensing via Dynamically Soft Topological States in Piezoelectric Microacoustic Metamaterials,” was published in Advanced Functional Materials, a top journal in materials science and engineering.

