News

Dec 19, 2018
Melodia Selected as IEEE Distinguished Lecturer
ECE Professor Tommaso Melodia has been selected as an IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Distinguished Lecturer (DL) for 2019 and 2020.

Dec 18, 2018
Assistant Professor Fang Awarded NSF CAREER
ECE Assistant Professor Hui Fang has been awarded a $500K NSF CAREER Award for his Transforming Neural Interfaces Using Stretchable, Transparent, Multifunctional Nanomesh Microelectrodes project. The award starts in 2019 and will run for five years.

Dec 18, 2018
Five COE Projects Selected for GapFund360
Congratulations to ECE Associate Professors Kaushik Chowdhury, Raymond Fu, Matteo Rinaldi, ECE Professor Vincent Harris, and BioE Professor Jeff Ruberti whose projects were selected for Phase 1 2018 funding by Northeastern’s GapFund360 program.

Dec 14, 2018
Hajjar and Padir’s Collaborative Work Highlighted at CRDR Workshop
CEE Chair and CDM Smith Professor Jerome Hajjar and ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir are collaborating on a research project for post-disaster assessment of critical infrastructure such as bridges using small unmanned aircraft systems.

Dec 13, 2018
Prof. Edmund Yeh to Chair National Academies Panel
ECE Professor Edmund Yeh will serve as Chair of the National Academies Panel on Review of the In-house Laboratory Independent Research in Network Sciences at the Army’s Research, Development, and Engineering Centers (RDECs).

Dec 13, 2018
Shafai Awarded WAC Lifetime Achievement Award
ECE Professor Bahram Shafai received the Lifetime Achievement Award from World Automation Congress (WAC) 2018 for Outstanding Contributions to Robust Stability and Control of Multivariable Systems and Observer Design for Fault Detection.

Dec 12, 2018
Mosallaei's APL Article Selected as Editor's Pick
ECE Professor Hossein Mosallaei’s article on “Neural Network Based Design of Metagratings” published in Applied Physics Letters was selected as Editor’s Pick.

Dec 06, 2018
NU Team Announced as Finalist in 2019 Mars Ice Challenge
A group of Northeastern students led by ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir was selected as one of ten finalists in NASA’s 2019 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) Special Edition: Moon to Mars Ice and Prospecting Challenge for their project “Northeastern University Prospecting Underground Distilling Liquid Extractor (NU-PUDLE)”.