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Nov 10, 2025
Colangelo Receives Embassy of Italy Award for Quantum Technology
ECE Assistant Professor Marco Colangelo was selected as the winner of the Embassy of Italy Award for Quantum Technology for his remarkable contributions to the field of quantum technologies, addressing the important challenge of realizing reliable and efficient detection of single photons for building scalable quantum information processing architectures.
Nov 10, 2025
Tiwari Receives 2025 HPE Faculty Excellence Award
ECE Associate Professor Devesh Tiwari received the 2025 HPE Faculty Excellence Award for his innovative research.
Nov 07, 2025
Northeastern Nominates 6 COE Students for Prestigious Knight-Hennessy Scholarship
Druhi Bhargava, E’24, computer engineering; Amanda Ferrante, E’26, bioengineering and biochemistry; Kevin Giordano, E’26, mechanical engineering and physics; Victoria Robbins, E’22, chemical engineering; Nishita Roy, E’26, bioengineering, and Zhenming Yang, E’26, electrical and computer engineering were were six of nine nominated by Northeastern for the Knight-Hennessy Scholarship, which develops a community of future global leaders to address complex challenges through collaboration and innovation.
Nov 06, 2025
Autonomous Wheelchair Project Positively Impacts Individuals
ECE Professor Taskin Padir talks about an AI-powered autonomous wheelchair that could be an impactful technological advancement for individuals with quadriplegia and other physical conditions.
Nov 04, 2025
New Sensor Design for Early Single-Cell Cancer Diagnosis
ECE Assistant Professors Siddhartha Ghosh, Marco Colangelo, and Associate Professor Cristian Cassella published their research on “Topologically enhanced guided acoustic wave sensors” in Physical Review Applied.
Oct 31, 2025
Making Exoskeletons Safe Through Uncertainty
Research conducted by Fatima Mumtaza Tourk, PhD’27, mechanical engineering; Bishoy Galoaa, PhD’29, computer engineering; Sanat Shajan, COS’25; ECE/Khoury Assistant Professor Michael Everett; and Bouvé/MIE Assistant Professor Max Shepherd on “Uncertainty-Aware Ankle Exoskeleton Control” was published in Robotics.
Oct 31, 2025
Creating a Single Nanodevice That Displays a Record-High Number of Independent Images
Research conducted by MIE/ECE Professor Yongmin Liu on “Polarization-Encoded Lenticular Nano-Printing with Single-Layer Metasurfaces” was published in Advanced Functional Materials.
Oct 29, 2025
Northeastern Partners in Major Grant to Advance Trusted Microelectronics
ECE Associate Professor Xiaolin Xu, in addition to Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Synopsys Inc., is collaborating on a new multi-institutional project funded through the Massachusetts SCALE Capital Program. Their project, “SAIL: Securing AI Chips and Intelligent Design Automation for Trusted Hardware,” is led by Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and received a $236,226 grant to acquire key capital equipment.