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Oct 15, 2026
2026 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations
The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2% of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines.
Oct 14, 2026
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.
Oct 14, 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.
Oct 09, 2026
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.
Sep 24, 2026
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.
Sep 22, 2026
Restuccia Receives Prestigious PECASE Award
ECE Associate Professor Francesco Restuccia was awarded a $1M Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers to develop mathematical frameworks that make wireless systems and AI models more reliable by accounting for uncertainty and ignorance.
Sep 21, 2026
Fall 2026 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of the Fall 2026 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
Sep 15, 2026
Shrivastava Awarded NIH R01 Grant for Creating Smart Implants for Managing Brain Disorders
ECE Associate Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava was awarded a $1.2M grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for “Transforming Brain Disorder Management through Ultra-Low-Power ML Implants.”