News
Jun 27, 2019
Predicting Protein Functions from 3D Structures
ECE Professor Deniz Erdogmus (co-PI) and affiliated BioE Professors Mary Jo Ondrechen (PI) and Penny Beuning (co-PI) were awarded a $600K NSF grant for “Mining for mechanistic information to predict protein function”.
Jun 19, 2019
Using Deep-Learning for Multi-Functional Meta-Systems
MIE/ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu and ECE/Koury Associate Professor Yun “Raymond” Fu were awarded a $530K NSF grant for “Multi-Functional Optical Meta-Systems Enabled by Deep-Learning-Aided Inverse Design”.
Jun 17, 2019
Melodia’s Group Wins Best Paper Award at WoWMoM
A paper from ECE Professor Tommaso Melodia’s lab on “HIRO-NET: Self-Organized Robotic Mesh Networking for Internet Sharing in Disaster Scenarios” won the Best Paper Award at the 2019 IEEE 20th International Symposium on World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM).
Jun 10, 2019
ECE PhDs Win Best Student Paper Award at PETRA 2019
ECE PhD students Mo Han, PhD’22, Yagmur Gunay, PhD’21, and Ilkay Yildiz, PhD’22, received the best student paper award at PETRA 2019, which took place in Rhodes, Greece, for their paper “From Hand-perspective Visual Information to Grasp Type Probabilities: Deep Learning via Ranking Labels”.
Jun 05, 2019
Lin to Lead $1.2M Grant to Reduce DNN Computation and Storage Requirements
ECE Assistant Professor Xue (Shelley) Lin will lead a $1.2M NSF grant, in collaboration with ECE Professor Miriam Leeser and Massoud Pedram from the University of Southern California, on developing “A Unified Software/Hardware Framework of DNN Computation and Storage Reduction Using ADMM”.
Jun 04, 2019
Leeser to Give Keynote Speech at ISSC
ECE Professor Miriam Leeser will give a keynote speech on “Billions and billions – or what to do with all those transistors” at the Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC).
May 28, 2019
NU Team to Compete at Mars Society’s University Rover Challenge
The Northeastern University Mars Rover Team, which is made up of 35 students from civil engineering, electrical & computer engineering, mechanical engineering, science, and computer science majors, is heading to Utah to compete in the 2019 Mars Society’s University Rover Challenge.
May 23, 2019
Qian Receives TechConnect Innovation Award
ECE Research Assistant Professor Zhenyun Qian received the TechConnect 2019 Innovation Award for his research on “Miniaturized Zero-Power Flame Detectors for Ubiquitous Fire Monitoring”.