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Jan 09, 2017
Professor Chowdhury Named Presidential Early Career Award Winner
ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury is one of 102 scientists and researchers being awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
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Jan 06, 2017
Liu Awarded NSF CAREER Award
MIE/ECE Assistant Professor Yongmin Liu was awarded a $500K NSF CAREER award for "Spin Plasmonics for Ultrafast All-Optical Manipulation of Magnetization in Hybrid Metal-Ferromagnet Structures".
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Jan 05, 2017
ECE PhD Student Awarded Baidu Scholarship
PhD Student Sheng Li has been named one of ten awardees of The Baidu Scholarship. Baidu, a Chinese search engine company, selects PhD students for this scholarship based on research accomplishment and academic record for candidates doing exceptional work in computer science and related disciplines. This scholarship provides financial support of roughly $28,000 for two […]
Jan 04, 2017
ECE PhD Student Receives Dissertation Award
ECE PhD Student Benjamin Drozdenko named a Spring 2017 Dissertation Completion Awardee from Northeastern University’s Provost Office. Drozdenko is co-advised by Professor Miriam Leeser and Professor Kaushik Chowdhury. Drozdenko's dissertation is entitled “Enabling Protocol Coexistence: Hardware-Software Codesign of Wireless Transceivers on Heterogeneous Computing Architectures.” For a full list of awardees, please visit Dissertation Completion Award.
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Dec 19, 2016
Director Selected as National Academy of Inventors Fellow
Provost Emeritus Stephen W. Director, a pioneer in the field of electronic design automation and who has a long record of commitment to and innovation in engineering education, has been named a National Academy of Inventors Fellow.
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Dec 14, 2016
Spinostim Places Second in the Biannual ECE Senior Capstone Design Competition
Written by Liane Wong, a fifth year Electrical and Computer Engineering student.
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Dec 13, 2016
Teaching Robotics to the Next Generation
Christopher Scianna, ECE'19, shared his experiences of helping sixth graders build "sumo robots" at the Fall 2016 Service-Learning Expo.
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Dec 06, 2016
Professor Liu Named in Top 10 Rising Researchers
Professor Yongmin Liu, jointly appointed in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, has been named a 2017 SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing Rising Researcher. According to SPIE, the Rising Researcher program recognizes “early career professionals who are conducting outstanding work in product development or research in […]