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Apr 10, 2018
Patent Awarded to Assistant Professor Shrivastava
ECE Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava was awarded a patent for “Low voltage crystal oscillator (XTAL) driver with feedback controlled duty cycling for ultra low power.” Abstract Source: USPTO A low voltage crystal oscillator (XTAL) driver with feedback controlled duty cycling for ultra low power biases an amplifier for an XTAL in the sub-threshold operating regime. […]
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Apr 09, 2018
NSF PAWR Project Office Awards First Round of Funding
NSF PAWR Project Office Awards First Round of Funding for Groundbreaking Community-scale Wireless Experimental Platforms Northeastern’s College of Engineering research team, led by Tommaso Melodia, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering (ECE), together with U.S. Ignite, Inc., a nonprofit organization, was selected to direct a National Science Foundation initiative: Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research. […]
Apr 06, 2018
ECE Students Win Best Poster at 2018 RISE Expo
Two Northeastern ECE graduate students, Kaustubh Shivdikar and Julian Gutierrez, along with external collaborator Tad Gallion and advisor Professor David Kaeli, led a team of 3 ECE undergraduates (freshmen), and received first prize for the top poster in the "Computer and Information Sciences" in the graduate category at the 2018 RISE Expo. This is the 3rd year […]
Apr 04, 2018
Congratulation 2018 NSF GRFP Recipients
Congratulations to the current students and alumni who are recipients of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Awards.
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Apr 02, 2018
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
ECE Professor Vincent Harris was awarded a patent for his “Device and method for deep transcranial magnetic stimulation”.
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Apr 02, 2018
Sharing of Wireless Network Frequency Bands
ECE Associate Professor Tommaso Melodia was awarded a patent for creating a “Method for sharing of unlicensed radio frequency bands by cellular LTE and WiFi networks”.
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Apr 02, 2018
Four COE Students Awarded Goldwater Scholarships
Minhal Ahmed, BioE’19, Kritika Singh, BioE’20, Elizabeth Wig, EE’20, and Isaac Kresse, S/CompE’19, were awarded the 2018 Barry Goldwater Scholarship, the United States’ premier award for outstanding young researchers in STEM fields.
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Mar 29, 2018
Leeser Selected as Fulbright Fellow
ECE Professor Miriam Leeser was selected for a Fulbright award at Maynooth University and the CONNECT Centre, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland to study wireless and networking technology with applications to Internet of Things (IoT), wireless networking, cognitive radio, software defined radio and software defined networking.