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Feb 19, 2025
Patent for Automated Control of Drone Swarm Networks
ECE William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia and Associate Research Professor Salvatore D’Oro were awarded a patent for “Software defined drone network control system.”

Feb 19, 2025
Patent for Contactless In-Bed Pressure Estimation
ECE Associate Professor Sarah Ostadabbas was awarded a patent for “Method and system for in-bed contact pressure estimation via contactless imaging.”

Feb 18, 2025
$2M DARPA Award for MEMS Inertial Sensor To Revolutionize Navigation Systems
ECE Associate Professor Cristian Cassella (PI), Professor Matteo Rinaldi, Professor David Horsley, and Assistant Professor Benyamin Davaji were awarded a $2 million DARPA grant for “Enabling Higher Scale Factors in Gyroscopes Through soFt and LacAlized interface-States in microelectromecHanical resonators (FLASH).”

Feb 07, 2025
Understanding Superconductivity With Graphene
ECE/COS Associate Professor Kin Chung Fong published research on “Superfluid Stiffness of Twisted Trilayer Graphene Superconductors” in Nature. Written in collaboration with researchers at Harvard and MIT, Fong uses ideas from resonant circuits to measure superfluid stiffness, providing deep insights into the nature of unconventional high-temperature superconductivity.
Feb 07, 2025
Spring 2025 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several COE, COS, and Khoury students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of the Spring 2025 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.

Feb 07, 2025
Patent for AI-Driven Wireless Beam Management
ECE Principal Research Scientist Michele Polese, Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia, and Professor Tommaso Melodia were awarded a patent for “Coordination-free mmWave beam management with deep waveform learning.”

Feb 07, 2025
Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things Hosts Industry Conference, Showcases Research
The Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things highlighted its leadership role in wireless and smart connected systems research at its two-day conference, “Toward Open 6G Networks.” The institute plays an essential role in fostering partnerships between industry, government, and universities to develop wireless technologies for the future.

Feb 06, 2025
Sustainability Research Recognized at ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference
ECE Associate Professor Devesh Tiwari and a group of his PhD students were recognized at the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference for four papers focused on cutting-edge solutions to address the climate challenge of the massive energy usage of quantum and high performance computing.