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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 […]
Oct 18, 2017
Rinaldi and McGruer Receive Patent
ECE Associate Professor Matteo Rinaldi & Prof Nicol McGruer awarded patent for “Zero Power Radio Frequency Receiver”.
Oct 18, 2017
Easy ‘Friending’ Startup
Computer Engineering students Jay Shome and Andrew Smith developed the app FriendsUp to share and connect to multiple social accounts at once.
Oct 06, 2017
Research to Help Add Solar to the Grid
ECE Professor Ali Abur was awarded a $792K grant from the Enabling Extreme Real-time Grid Integration of Solar Energy (ENERGISE) funding program.
Oct 06, 2017
Rinaldi & McGruer Featured on Cover of Nature Nanotechnology
ECE Associate Professor Matteo Rinaldi and Professor Nicol McGruer’s research on “Zero-power infrared digitizers based on plasmonically enhanced micromechanical photoswitches” was featured on the cover of Nature Nanotechnology.
Oct 06, 2017
Professor Closas Research on GNSS featured in Two Scientific Magazines
Assistant Professor Pau Closas was featured as the lead guest editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine “Advanced in Signal Processing for Global Navigation Satellite Systems” special issue. The magazine focuses on research and applications of signal processing with tutorial-style articles and reflections on the areas of their research. Along with being the guest editor, […]