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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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Sherman Awarded NIH Career Development Grant to Advance Neurofeedback Therapy for Knee Osteoarthritis Pain
Assistant Professor David Alexander Sherman, jointly appointed in the physical therapy, movement, and rehabilitation sciences, as well as electrical and computer engineering, has received a prestigious K23 Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health, a five-year grant supporting his research into neurofeedback therapies for knee osteoarthritis pain.

Making Sure Students Understand the Code in the Age of AI
To address the challenges of artificial intelligence in the classroom, ECE Professor Hanumant Singh pairs homework assignments with corresponding in-person quizzes, using the lower of the two grades as the final score to ensure students truly understand the material even when utilizing AI tools.

Imani Receives Air Force Young Investigator Program Award
Mahdi Imani, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University, has received an Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) award for research on AI reasoning and human-AI collaboration. The three-year, $450,000 award supports his project, “Foundations of Trust and Influence in Human-AI Teams: Identifiability, Causal Measurement, and Stability”.

Su and Fu Receive Best Paper Award at ECCV DriveX Workshop
ECE Assistant Professor Lili Su and Professor Raymond Fu, alongside their research group, received the DriveX@ECCV 2026 Best Paper Award at the DriveX Workshop during the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2026 in Malmö for their paper titled “Post-Training in End-to-End Autonomous Driving: Taxonomy, Methods, and Challenges.”


