News
Aug 20, 2019
Studying Sleep Positions
Assistant Professor Sarah Ostadabbas is creating a database of sleeping positions to learn how it affects a person’s health.
Aug 06, 2019
Padir to Lead $2.5M NSF Grant to Develop Collaborative Robots to Impact the Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier
ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir to lead a $2.5M NSF grant with Kemi Jona (CPS Assistant Vice Chancellor), Alicia Modestino (CSSH Associate Professor), Kristian Kloeckl (CAMD Associate Professor), and John Basl (CSSH Associate Professor) to create “Co-worker Robots to Impact Seafood Processing (CRISP): Designs, Tools and Methods for Enhanced Worker Experience”.
Aug 06, 2019
Monitoring Fires in Complex Environments
ECE Associate Professor Matteo Rinaldi has developed a smart wireless fire detector that could monitor complex environments using an ultra-battery-saver mode that could last up to ten years.
Jul 31, 2019
Ostadabbas Awarded NSF Grant to combined Augmented Reality (AR) and EEG for Stroke-Induced Visual Neglect Rehabilitation
ECE Assistant Professor Sarah Ostadabbas is the Northeastern PI of a collaborative $1.2M NSF grant with the University of Pittsburgh on “SCH: INT: Collaborative Research: Detection, Assessment and Rehabilitation of Stroke-Induced Visual Neglect Using Augmented Reality (AR) and Electroencephalography (EEG).”
Jul 30, 2019
Creating Pressure Sensors with Higher Sensitivity over a Wider Range
ECE Professor & Chair Srinivas Tadigadapa was awarded a patent for creating a “Micromachined bulk acoustic wave resonator pressure sensor”. Abstract Source: USPTO A pressure sensor includes a piezoelectric substrate […]
Jul 25, 2019
Using Sound Waves to Improve Medical Implants
ECE Professor Tommaso Melodia is developing methods to use sound waves to transmit data wirelessly within implantable medical devices instead of the electromagnetic radio waves used today.
Jul 24, 2019
Paradigm Hyperloop Competes at SpaceX Hyperloop Competition
Congratulations to the Paradigm Hyperloop team who competed in the 2019 SpaceX Hyperloop Competition this past weekend in California and placed 8th in the world and 3rd in North America.
Jul 18, 2019
Developing Better Airport Sensors
ECE Professor Carey Rappaport and MIE/ECE Associate Professor Jose Martinez-Lorenzo are developing sensors that could replace current airport scanners to quickly scan passengers as they walk down a hallway.