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Jul 28, 2016
Enhancing Safety of Ebola Workers
ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir was awarded a $54K Rapid Response Research NSF grant for "Realization of a Medical Cyber-Physical System to Enhance Safety of Ebola Workers". Abstract Source: NSF Motivated by the fact that the 2014 Ebola outbreak is the largest in history and there is a pressing need to understand how to improve […]
Jul 21, 2016
ECE Professor Fu and PhD Student Receive Best Paper Award At Conference
Professor Yun Raymond Fu and his student, PhD Candidate Zhengming Ding, have been given a best paper award at the SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) conference XXVII, 2016. The award winning paper is titled Deep transfer learning for automatic target classification: MWIR to LWIR, (9844-8). Professor Fu and his student collaborated on […]
Jul 20, 2016
Chowdhury Awarded NSF I-Corps Grant
ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Chowhury was awarded a $50K NSF I-Corps grant for his "Software-Defined Distributed Wireless Charging".
Jul 20, 2016
APS Conference
Written by Anthony Bisulco, a second year Electrical and Computer Engineering student.
Jul 19, 2016
ECE PhD Student Receives Facebook Scholarship to Attend Conference
ECE PhD Student Fanny Nina-Paravecino has been awarded a Facebook Scholarship to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing being held in October. The conference is the world’s largest gathering of women technologists, according to event organizers. Nina-Paravecino works in the Northeastern University Computer Architecture Research Lab (NUCAR) under the supervision of Professor […]
Jul 14, 2016
Assembly of Nanoelements
MIE Professor Ahmed Busnaina & ECE Professor Nicol McGruer were awarded a patent for “Directed assembly of carbon nanotubes and nanoparticles using nanotemplates”.
Jul 14, 2016
VOTERS Awarded Patent
VOTERS professors Ming Wang (CEE), Sara Wadia-Fascetti (CEE), & Carey Rappaport (ECE) were awarded a patent for “Roaming mobile sensor platform for collecting geo-referenced data and creating thematic maps”. Abstract Source: USPTO A roaming sensor system collects data on the condition of roads and bridge decks and identifies and maps defects, including cracks, potholes, debonding, […]
Jun 20, 2016
ECE Students Participate in International Competition in Germany
ECE undergraduates Tristan Sweeney, Jason Booth, and Trevor Gale are competing in the ISC-HPCAC Student Cluster Competition in Frankfurt, Germany. The Northeastern students are a part of the Boston Green Team, which is also comprised of students from Boston University with advisors from Northeastern and MIT. “The purpose of this competition is to introduce the […]