News

Jan 30, 2025
Faculty and Staff Awards 2025
Faculty and staff were recognized at the 27th Annual College of Engineering Faculty and Staff Awards for their exceptional service and dedication in support of students, the COE community, and the university during the 2024-2025 academic year.

Jan 29, 2025
Tips For Avoiding Static Electricity Shocks During Winter
COS/ECE Assistant Professor Ivana Dimitrova explains how dry winter air causes static electricity that can result in sometimes painful shocks and offers tips to prevent them, like using a coin or key to touch a metal object.

Jan 28, 2025
Patent Awarded for Lightweight Pose Estimation Network
ECE Distinguished/Khoury Professor Yun Raymond Fu was awarded a patent for “Light-weight pose estimation network with multi-scale heatmap fusion.”

Jan 16, 2025
Fu Elected AAAI Fellow
ECE/Khoury Professor Yun Raymond Fu was elected a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence for significant contributions to transformative technology innovation in computer vision, augmented human-machine interaction, and leadership in AI technology commercialization.
Jan 14, 2025
Spring 2025 AJC Merit Research Scholars
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Northeastern’s AJC Merit Research Scholarship, which will fund a co-op in the laboratory of a Northeastern University STEM faculty member.

Jan 14, 2025
Patent for Closed-Loop GNSS Simulation
ECE Associate Professor Pau Closas was awarded a patent for “System for closed-loop GNSS simulation.”

Jan 14, 2025
Research Uncovers Wi-Fi Security Vulnerability
ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia is one of several authors of new research that has uncovered a significant security vulnerability in wireless technology found in nearly every Wi-Fi system. The findings will be presented in May at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM).

Jan 13, 2025
Jornet Delivers Keynote at IEEE CCNC 2025
ECE Professor and Associate Dean for Research Josep Jornet gave a keynote speech on “Terahertz Communications: From the Near Field to Space Networks” at the IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference.