News
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 […]
Jun 16, 2016
Professor David Kaeli and EEMBC in Yahoo Finance Article
ECE Professor David Kaeli was mentioned in a Yahoo Finance article. The article focuses on a recent announcement by the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium, or EEMBC. Professor Kaeli will serve as a technical advisor to EEMBC on their new heteroeneous benchmark suite targeting Automotive Vision, Compute and Mobile Imaging. Read more about EEMBC and how its […]
Jun 07, 2016
Advancing Teaching and Learning at Northeastern
Northeastern has awarded grants to two groups of faculty to promote Advancing Teaching and Learning at Northeastern.
Jun 07, 2016
Grant to Combat Against Side-Channel Attacks
ECE Associate Professor Yunsi Fei was awarded a $1.2M three-year NSF grant to create "Automating Countermeasures and Security Evaluation Against Software Side-channel Attacks". Abstract Source: NSF Side-channel attacks (SCA) have been a realistic threat to various cryptographic implementations that do not feature dedicated protection. While many effective countermeasures have been found and applied manually, they […]
Jun 07, 2016
ECE Welcomes Summer Program Students
The ECE Department is happy to welcome students from all over the country through the NSF-supported REU-D3 program and the ECE-supported ENTER program. Students will also join the department from the ALERT REU program, supported by DHS. These carefully selected students have come from around the country—as far as Hawaii—to take advantage of some of the best opportunities […]
Jun 07, 2016
Valkyrie has Successful Meeting with Public
The Valkyrie robot destined for use on Mars had its first interaction with the public during a presentation in East Village at the beginning of June.
Jun 01, 2016
Influencing Students for Several Decades
Professors Michael Silevitch (ECE) and John Cipolla (MIE) have worked at Northeastern University training thousands of students for over four decades and have setup funds to push these students to reach their highest potentials. Source: Northeastern Magazine These senior engineering professors became friends and research collaborators soon after joining the faculty in 1971. Celebrating careers […]
May 27, 2016
NVIDIA GPU Education Center Status Renewed
The ECE Department is happy to announce our status as a NVIDIA GPU Education Center has been renewed under the direction of Professor Miriam Leeser. According to NVIDIA, the GPU Education Center Program recognizes and supports academic institutions with a track record teaching GPU Computing at both the undergrad and graduate level.