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Oct 14, 2016
S-POWER Program to Increase STEM and Energy fields
ECE Professor Bradley Lehman, MIE Associate Professor Marilyn Minus, Assistant Dean Richard Harris, and STEM Director Claire Duggan were awarded a 5-year $5M NSF grant to develop a "Student Pathways Opening World Energy Resources (S-POWER)" program.
Sep 29, 2016
Sternad Awarded Grant to Create Robots with Better Human Dexterity
COS/ECE Professor Dagmar Sternad was awarded a $500K collaborative NSF grant to research "Towards Robots with Human Dexterity".
Sep 27, 2016
ECE PhD Student Nominated for Best Paper
PhD Student Yifan Sun has been nominated for a Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization in Providence, R.I. Sun's paper is titled: "Hetero-Mark, A Benchmark Suite for CPU-GPU Collaborative Computing," Yifan Sun, Xiang Gong, Amir Kavyan Ziabari, Leiming Yu, Xiangyu Li, Saoni Mukherjee, Carter McCardwell (Northeastern University), Alejandro Villegas (University of Malaga), […]
Sep 23, 2016
ECE Assistant Professor Mahshid Amirabadi Receives the Best Paper Award
ECE Assistant Professor Mahshid Amirabadi, received the Best Paper Award at the 8th Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition (ECCE 2016). Her paper was entitled "Cuk-Based Universal Converters in Discontinuous Conduction Mode of Operation."
Sep 22, 2016
Chowdhury has one of the Top 25 most Downloaded Sensors Paper
ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury's paper on "Low-Cost Wake-Up Receiver for RF Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks" was one of the 25 most downloaded Sensors Journal papers for June 2016. It is exciting to note that included in this count are all Sensors Journal papers published since the Journal's foundation, about 4500 papers in total, […]
Sep 19, 2016
COE Lab Fair Opens Up New Opportunities
When ECE student Andrew Tu met Associate Professor Stefano Basagni at last year's COE Undergraduate Lab Fair last year, it opened his eyes to all the research opportunities available at Northeastern. Source: News @ Northeastern When Andrew Tu, E’20, arrived at Northeastern last fall, he did not expect to be towing a buoy that stood […]
Sep 14, 2016
ECE PhD Student Named a Top 20 New Star in Data Mining
Northeastern ECE PhD Student Hongfu Liu has been named in the Top 20 New Stars in Data Mining, provided by Microsoft searching. Microsoft searching mines the past 6 years of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) submissions and combines the big data from Microsoft to then achieve the ranking by an automatic algorithm. KDD is […]
Sep 12, 2016
Building a Better Scanner
ECE Professor Carey Rappaport and MIE/ECE Assistant Professor Jose Martinez Lorenzo’s article on Improving Security Screening: A Comparison of Multistatic Radar Configurations for Human Body Imaging was one of four featured articles on the cover of IEEE Antennas & Propagation.