Electrical & Computer Engineering Spotlights

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Mar 07, 2023

Pursuing an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern’s Roux Institute

Chinemeremma Collins Okara is pursuing an MS in electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern’s Roux Institute in Portland, Maine, with a goal to become an embedded systems engineer working in the internet of things.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Feb 14, 2023

Abowd Receives ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award

Dean Gregory D. Abowd received the Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) Lifetime Research Award. It recognizes the very best, most fundamental, and influential research contributions, and is awarded for a lifetime of innovation and leadership.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Feb 07, 2023

Schwarzman Scholarship and Named one of BostInno’s 25 Under 25.

Alex Marley, E’22, electrical engineering, was awarded the highly selective Schwarzman Scholarship and named one of BostInno’s 25 Under 25. Schwarzman Scholars supports up to 200 Scholars annually from the U.S., China, and around the world for a one-year master’s in global affairs at Beijing’s Tsinghua University.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dec 20, 2022

Rover Team Prepares for Next Competition

After competing at the global Mars Society’s University Rover Challenge earlier this year, the Northeastern Mars Rover Team, advised by MIE Assistant Professor Peter Whitney, is gearing up for next year’s competition.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Nov 18, 2022

First Place Win at 2022 NASA BIG IDEA Competition

A Northeastern University student team won the prestigious Artemis Award, the top honor at NASA’s 2022 Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-changing (BIG) Idea Challenge for their COBRA: Crater Observing Bio-inspired Rolling Articulator.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Nov 08, 2022

Northeastern Robotics Team Wins $1M for Third-place Finish in Global Competition

Team Northeastern won $1 million in third place among 17 finalists from around the globe in the ANA Avatar XPrize robotics competition.

Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Joseph Berman

Oct 26, 2022

Seeing Code in Real Life: A Co-op Journey Into Robotics

Joseph Berman, E’24, computer engineering, has taken advantage of Northeastern’s experiential learning opportunities. After completing a co-op at Amazon Robotics, he worked in the robotics lab of Associate Professor Taskin Padir, who is also director of the Institute of Experiential Robotics. He is now on co-op in Japan working at Mujin, a startup based in Tokyo with additional branches in Georgia and China.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Rohan Basu Roy

Oct 19, 2022

PhD Spotlight: Rohan Basu Roy, PhD’24 – Computer Engineering

Originally from Calcutta, India, Rohan Basu Roy began his PhD journey at Northeastern in 2019 in the Goodwill Computing Lab, advised by Associate Professor Devesh Tiwari of electrical and computer […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering