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May 01, 2018
Mosallaei's Article Selected for Top 100 Scientific Reports
ECE Hossein Mosallaei's article on "Optimization-based Dielectric Metasurfaces for Angle-Selective Multifunctional Beam Deflection" was selected as one of the top 100 read physics papers for Scientific Reports in 2017.
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May 01, 2018
Faculty and Staff Awards 2018
Congratulations to all the winners of the faculty and staff awards, and to everyone for their hard work and dedication during the 2017-2018 academic school year.
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Apr 29, 2018
Outstanding Teaching Award
FYELIC Teaching Professor Bala Maheswaran received the Outstanding Teaching Award at the Northeast Section of the American Society for Engineering Education banquet on April 27, 2018 at the University of Hartford, Connecticut. ASEE is the Global Principal organization for Engineering Education.
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Apr 24, 2018
Honoring Highest Achievements
Congratulations to the COE faculty and students that were honored at the 2018 Academic Honors Convocation.
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Apr 24, 2018
Electrical Alum and NU Chairman of the Board Emeritus Awarded Presidential Medallion
Sy Sternberg, ME’68, H’12, was awarded the prestigious Presidential Medallion, the university’s top honor.
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Apr 24, 2018
Northeastern Undergrad Team Places at Pfizer Digital Medicine Challenge
Congratulations to Northeastern’s Husky Hacks team for competing in CMG, Computer Measurement Group’s Need for Speed Hackathon and coming in tied for second place in the Pfizer Digital Medicine Challenge, a binary classification problem on ambient sound data. The team trained a Deep Learning model on GPU using MATLAB, leveraging continuous wavelet transforms to represent […]
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Apr 24, 2018
The Rise of Northeastern Robotics
MIE Assistant Professor Peter Whitney, ECE/MIE Professor Hanumant Singh, and MIE Affiliated Faculty Robert Platt were hand-selected to attend Amazon’s MARS conference which brings together leaders in AI, automation, robotics, and space exploration.
Apr 23, 2018
Northeastern IoT Research Shines at IEEE Infocom in Honolulu, Hawaii
Northeastern researchers were prominently featured at the recent IEEE Infocom 2018 conference in Honolulu, Hawaii on April 14-19. Prof. Tommaso Melodia served as Technical Program Chair for the conference, and was recognized with the class of new 2018 IEEE Fellows in the conference opening ceremony. Prof. Kaushik Chowdhury and his team received a Best Paper […]