News
Jul 10, 2017
Yeh Leads $1M NSF Award to Redesign World’s Largest Big Data Network
ECE Professor Edmund Yeh was recently awarded a $1M NSF grant entitled “CC* Integration: SANDIE: Software Defined Network-Assisted Named Data Network for Data Intensive Experiments.”
Jul 05, 2017
Ioannidis & Yeh Awarded $500K NSF Grant
ECE Assistant Professor Stratis Ioannidis and Professor Edmund Yeh were awarded a $500K NSF grant for "Caching Networks with Optimality Guarantees". Abstract Source: NSF The Internet today includes networks of caches–networks with storage capabilities–that are used in a broad array of real-life networking applications. They play a central role in commercial systems for the online […]
Jul 05, 2017
ECE Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava Awarded Patent
ECE Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava has been awarded a patent for “Methods and apparatus for a single inductor multiple output (SIMO) DC-DC converter circuit.” Abstract Source: USPTO In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a single-inductor multiple-output (SIMO) direct current (DC-DC) converter circuit, with the SIMO DC-DC converter circuit having a set of output nodes. The […]
Jun 28, 2017
Protecting Privacy for Wireless Medical Devices
Affiliated CCIS Professor Guevara Noubir and ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury were awarded a $300K NSF grant for "Assessing and Protecting Privacy in Wireless Wearable Sensor-Generated Medical Data".
Jun 28, 2017
Young Scholar Program Provides Experience-Based Learning for Future Scientists and Engineers
The Center for STEM Education kicked off its 2017 Young Scholars Program on June 26, 2017, with 26 budding scientists and engineers from high schools at a variety of cities and towns in the Greater Boston area.
Jun 28, 2017
Why are Robots called ‘Robots’?
ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir explains the origins of the word "robot" in this week's version of Why is That?
Jun 22, 2017
Northeastern ECE Students Compete at International Conference
Three ECE undergraduate students competed in the 2017 Student Cluster Competition at the International Supercomputing Conference in Frankfurt, Germany. The students, teaming with three students from Purdue University, came in second place in the Linpack challenge, setting a new American record. Northeastern’s Spencer Hance, Zack Marcus and Carter McCardwell make up half of the NP-Complete […]
Jun 14, 2017
Geolocation LocATER System for First Responders
ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir was awarded a $200K NSF grant to design "LocATER: Localization and Accountability Technology for Emergency Responders".