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Aug 16, 2016
$1.2M in New Wireless Networking Research Grants
ECE Associate Professor Tommaso Melodia has recently been awarded several national grants totaling over $1.2M to develop new wireless networks.
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Aug 03, 2016
COE to Represent NU at NAE
Sagar Kamarthi (MIE) has been selected as a panel speaker and Andrew Myers (CEE), Yunsi Fei (ECE), & Edgar Goluch (ChE) have been invited to participate at the National Academy of Engineering's eighth Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) symposium.
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Jul 28, 2016
$2.5M NSF grant for Critical Infrastructure Resilience
ECE professors Mario Sznaier, Octavia Camps, Ali Abur, & Edmund Yeh, MIE assistant professor Jacqueline Griffin, CEE professor Jerome Hajjar, COS professor Lisa Feldman Barrett, CCIS professor Stacy Marsella, and Kostas director Peter Boynton were awarded a $2.5M NSF grant for the “Identification and Control of Uncertain, Highly Interdependent Processes Involving Humans with Applications to […]
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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 […]
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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".
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Jul 20, 2016
APS Conference
Written by Anthony Bisulco, a second year Electrical and Computer Engineering student.
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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 […]