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Sep 16, 2018
Embark, Volume II Published
Embark, Northeastern’s Undergraduate Engineering and Applied Sciences Review, has published their second volume. Go check it out here! Research was executed by undergraduate students across an array of fields. Content […]

Sep 12, 2018
Detecting Trojan Circuits with On-Chip Temperature Sensors
ECE Associate Professor Marvin Onabajo and Professor Yong-Bin Kim were awarded a patent for creating a "method to use on-chip temperature sensors for detection of Trojan circuits". Abstract Source: USPTO […]

Sep 11, 2018
$13.2M NIH Award for Environmental Influences of Child Health Outcomes in Puerto Rico
CEE Professor Akram Alshawabkeh has been awarded $13.2M over five years from the National Institutes of Health to lead a renewal of the multi-institutional and interdisciplinary research project, entitled, “Environmental Influences of Child Health Outcomes in Puerto Rico (ECHO-PRO).

Sep 10, 2018
Improving Human-Robot Interactions with Dynamically Complex Objects
Professor Dagmar Sternad, Biology, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics, recently received a $700,000 National Science Foundation grant title, “Learning to Control Dynamically Complex Objects” to improve human-robot interaction by exploring […]

Sep 06, 2018
Imaging the Brain With Transparent Array of Microelectrodes
ECE Assistant Professor Hui Fang and a team of neuroscientists from Boston Children’s Hospital have developed a transparent array of microelectrodes on nano-mesh to monitor the impulses sent by the brain.

Sep 06, 2018
Creating an Optimal Sharing Economy
Professors Ozlem Ergun (MIE), Haris Koutsopoulos (CEE), and Jennie Stephens (CSSH/Affiliated CEE) were awarded a $99K NSF grant for a “Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Sharing economy – Humans, Automation, Resilience and Engineering: SHARE”.

Sep 05, 2018
Professor Camps Awarded Best Paper from 2018 ICDSC Conference
ECE Professor Octavia Camps and her collaborators were awarded the Best Paper Award at the 2018 International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The paper, titled “Correlating Belongings […]

Sep 04, 2018
Securing Global Navigation Satellite System Infrastructures
ECE Assistant Professor Pau Closas was awarded a $160K NSF grant for “securing GNSS-based infrastructures.” Pau Closas, assistant professor, electrical and computer engineering, was awarded a $160K National Science Foundation […]