ECE has traditionally been the home of multiple engineering research centers and currently is the lead or partner of the research centers and institutes below.
Federally-Designated Research Centers Led by Northeastern
Federally-Designated Research Centers Where Northeastern Is a Partner
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Designated by the National Science Foundation as an NSF AI Institute, AI-EDGE leverages the synergies between networking and AI to design future generations of wireless edge networks.
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Funded by the National Science Foundation as an Industry-University Cooperative Research Center, CHEST will coordinate university-based research with the needs of industry and government partners to advance knowledge of security, assurance, and trust for electronic hardware and embedded systems.
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Funded by the National Science Foundation as a Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention Center, CPI aims to harness new technologies and develop sensing to detect, investigate, and ultimately prevent pandemics at their source.
University Research Institutes and Centers
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WIOT pioneers research in wireless systems and networks to make the next generation of internet of things a continuum of connected devices able to interact in new ways with people and the environment—from connected cars and drones, to implantable medical devices and smart communities.
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IER focuses on the development of robots able to learn and adaptively execute autonomous behaviors from human partners and/or other robots.
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The institute is a global hub focused on pioneering semiconductor research, learning, and innovation.
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Conducts fundamental and interdisciplinary applied research in the areas of computational modeling, computer vision, distributed computing, image analysis, machine learning, optimization, and signal processing.
