News
Jun 09, 2014
Overcoming the Odds
Computer Engineering PhD student William Tomlinson was featured in ASEE Prism for the struggles he encountered in his educational career.
Jun 03, 2014
Engineering ideas to help people in need
The newly formed student group Enabling Engineering uses engineering principles to design and build projects to help individuals with disabilities.
Jun 02, 2014
Fu Receives DURIP Award
ECE & CCIS Assistant Professor Y. Raymond Fu received a highly competitive $240K DOD Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) Research Equipment award for major equipment for his SMILE lab.
May 30, 2014
Student project targets memory impairment
People with memory-impairing diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, are not only losing their memories—they’re also losing their independence. And as memory loss worsens, they rely may more on others to help them with daily tasks. For a senior capstone project, a team of Northeastern University engineering students sought a way to help, knowing that more than 15 million Americans […]
May 21, 2014
Can current stimulate smarts?
“I’m not yet convinced it’s going to work,” Misha Pavel, an expert in neural engineering and a professor of practice at Northeastern University, said of the possibility of applying low-level current to the scalp as a means of improving intelligence. But that skepticism has only inspired Pavel and his colleagues, including associate professor of electrical and computer […]
May 09, 2014
DiMarzio Professor of the Year
ECE Associate Professor Charles DiMarzio was selected Professor of the Year by Eta Kappa Nu for his outstanding contributions to the ECE department.
May 07, 2014
VMM Intrusion Detection
ECE Professor David Kaeli and Associate Professor Jennifer Dy were awarded a patent for creating a Virtual Machine Monitor Based Intrusion Detection System. Dr. Kaeli leads the Northeastern University Computer Architecture Research Laboratory and his research is based on high-performance systems and software, while Dr. Dy has focused on developing algorithms for clustering data and improving support vector machines.
Apr 29, 2014
A key to communication for locked-in syndrome patients
For the past seven years, one man receiving care from LifeStream, a Massachusetts-based human services organization, has only been able to communicate by blinking his eyes in response to yes-or-no questions. He has cognitive awareness but is paralyzed with respect to nearly all of his voluntary motor muscles due to severe injuries he suffered in […]