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Sep 20, 2017
Tiwari Selected as Program Area Vice Chair for IPDPS
ECE Assistant Professor Desesh Tiwari was selected to be the Program Area Vice Chair for the 32nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium which is one of the leading conferences in high performance parallel and distributed computing.
Sep 19, 2017
Undergraduate Lab Fair Offers New Experiences
The COE Undergraduate Lab Fair provides undergraduate students with an opportunity to learn about all the research options available to them. Source: News @ Northeastern Nicholas Fresneda strode into the Curry Student Center Ballroom with high expectations, intent on finding an opportunity to work in one of the College of Engineering’s many cutting-edge research labs. […]
Sep 19, 2017
Professor Fu to Receive $250k From the Department of Defense
ECE/CCIS Associate Professor Yun Raymond Fu was awarded $250k in funding from DOD’s Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) to buy powerful GPU Clusters for his research project, “Large-Scale Video Translation by Deep Learning and Knowledge Graph.”
Sep 19, 2017
ECE Team to Develop Testbed for Underwater Communication
ECE Associate Professor Tommaso Melodia will lead a three-year $1.57M NSF grant with Associate Professors Stefano Basagni, Matteo Rinaldi, and Professor Milica Stojanovic for the “Development of a Software-Defined Networking Testbed for the Internet of Underwater Things”.
Sep 18, 2017
Two ECE Students Win 2017 Women Forward in Technology Scholarship
Two students from Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) — Carolina Binns (left) and Sara Symonds (right) — have been announced as recipients of the 2017 Women Forward in Technology Scholarship. This unique scholarship program was founded by Distil Networks, Foundry Group, Techstars, Cooley, Yesware, Help Scout, Cloudability, Kulesa Faul, FullContact, and Anchor Point Fund, with […]
Sep 15, 2017
Onabajo is the recipient of an ARO Young Investigator Program Award
Assistant Professor Marvin Onabajo, electrical and computer engineering, has received a $205,000 Young Investigator Award from the Army Research Office (ARO). The grant supports Onabajo’s efforts to develop security solutions for the global semiconductor industry — specifically, an on-chip thermal sensing system that detects hardware hacking attempts. “There is an increasing risk of harmful modifications that can […]
Sep 14, 2017
Lin & Kaeli to Work on $800K NSF Grant Collaboration
ECE Assistant Professor Xue Lin and Professor David Kaeli in collaboration with CUNY City College received an $800K NSF grant to develop “A Framework of Simultaneous Acceleration and Storage Reduction on Deep Neural Networks Using Structured Matrices”.
Sep 12, 2017
Ratilal-Makris Receives $710K NSF Grant
ECE Associate Professor Purnima Ratilal-Makris received a $710K NSF award for the “Development of a Large-Aperture Coherent Hydrophone Array, Data Processing and Analysis Software System for Instantaneous Wide-Area Passive Acoustic Monitoring of Marine Mammals.”