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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
Robotics Graduate Student Selected to Inaugural NSS 30 Under 30 Class
Prathmesh Barapatre, MS’27, robotics, has been selected for the inaugural National Space Society (NSS) 30 Under 30 Class of 2026.
Leeser Wins Outstanding Paper Award at IEEE HPEC
ECE Professor Miriam Leeser co-authored “LatencyLab: A DPDK-Based P4 Pipeline Latency Measurement Framework for FPGA SmartNICs,” which won the Outstanding Paper Award at the 30th Annual IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Virtual Conference.
Sternad and Krotov Win Best Conference Paper Award at BioRob 2026 for Whip Control Study
COS/ECE University Distinguished Professor Dagmar Sternad and Aleksi Krotov, MS’20, PhD’26, bioengineering, won the Best Conference Paper Award (Second Place) at the IEEE RAS/EMBS 11th International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2026) in Edmonton, Canada for their paper “Hitting a target with a whip: The center of mass as a simplified internal model to control the whip,” which will be published in IEEE Transactions in Medical Robotics and Bionics.
Northeastern to Host NANOscientific Symposium Americas 2026
Northeastern University will serve as the host site for the NANOscientific Symposium Americas (NSS Americas) 2026, a hybrid event bringing together researchers, instrumentation experts, and industry partners to explore the latest developments in nanoscale discovery. The symposium runs September 29 at EXP, Northeastern University in Boston, with hands-on tool training following on September 30 at Northeastern’s Innovation Campus in Burlington, MA.