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Nov 09, 2017
Patent Awarded to ECE Assistant Professor Shrivastava
ECE Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava has been awarded a patent for “Low Input Voltage Boost Converter with Peak Inductor Current Control and Offset Compensated Zero Detection.”
Nov 09, 2017
PhD Student Wins Best Paper at Computer Design Conference
ECE PhD student Mohammad Khavari-Tavana won the best paper award at the 35th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD).
Nov 09, 2017
Two Awards for SmileLab
The Synergetic Media Learning Lab, or SmileLab, run by Professor Yun Raymond Fu, is the recipient of two recent awards, one from an international competition and another for an IEEE best paper. The first award is from the 2017 International Conference on Computer Vision MS-Celeb-1M Grand Challenge. According to the organizers of the event, “The […]
Nov 08, 2017
Enabling Engineering Podcast Featuring ECE Professor Waleed Meleis
How do we design for the large part of the population with varying physical and cognitive abilities? In this What's New podcast, Waleed Meleis, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, discusses the mission, innovations, and impact of the student-led club Enabling Engineering group, which designs and builds low-cost devices for those with physical and […]
Nov 08, 2017
Fu’s AI Startup Acquired by Global Cosmetics Company Shiseido
ECE/CCIS Raymond Fu’s spin-out company Giaran Inc., which specializes in using AI to allow consumers to test cosmetics products virtually, was acquired by the leading global cosmetics company Shiseido Americas Corporation.
Nov 05, 2017
Padir to Give Talk at International Automotive Engineering Conference
ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir gave an invited talk entitled “Risk-Aware Compositional Autonomy” at the 2017 International Automotive Engineering Conference held in Istanbul, Turkey. This event coincided with the announcement of a major consortium to make Turkey's first domestically produced car. “
Oct 27, 2017
Mosallaei’s Research Among Top Downloaded Articles in Microscopy
ECE Professor Hossein Mosallaei’s article on “Graphene-based near-field optical microscopy: high-resolution imaging using reconfigurable gratings” is one of the top downloaded articles in microscopy from Applied Optics, Biomedical Optics Express, and Journal of the Optical Society of America A.
Oct 20, 2017
Human-Robot Friendship
Doctoral student Murphy Wonsick envisions a world where humans and robots coexist as friends. She spends her days trying to figure out how astronauts and robots can work together to complete dangerous tasks in space. In fact, she’s working on one of the world’s most advanced humanoid robots to exist—Northeastern’s NASA robot Valkyrie—under the direction […]