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Apr 08, 2025
Fu Addresses US Congressional Hearing on Cybersecurity Risks in Medical Devices
ECE Professor Kevin Fu raised concerns about the vulnerability of medical equipment to cybersecurity attacks when he spoke at a U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing. Fu served as the first director of medical device security at the Food and Drug Administration from 2021-2022.
Apr 08, 2025
2025 Huntington 100 COE Recipients
Eighteen College of Engineering students were selected as 2025 members of the Northeastern University Huntington 100, which recognizes undergraduate students for their outstanding achievements and who exemplify the university’s mission, ideals, values, and academic excellence.
Apr 08, 2025
2025 Laurel and Scroll 100 Inductees
Twenty-nine engineering graduate students were inducted into the Laurel and Scroll 100, a society established in 2024 to honor exceptional graduate and professional students across Northeastern’s global university system.
Apr 08, 2025
2025 NSF GRFP Recipients
Current students and alumni were recipients of the 2025 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Awards. This prestigious program recognizes outstanding graduate students who have demonstrated the potential to be high achieving scientists and engineers early in their careers.
Apr 04, 2025
Report on Strategic Engineering for Next-Gen Wireless Competitiveness
ECE Professor and Associate Dean for Research Josep Jornet, who is co-director of the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things at Northeastern, co-organized the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA) visioning event that led to the report, “Strategic Engineering for Next-Generation Wireless Competitiveness.”
Apr 03, 2025
Affinity Student Groups 20th Annual Joint Recognition Banquet
Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and corporate partners were recognized for their commitments to engineering affinity student groups at the 20th Annual Joint Recognition Banquet. The participating groups included SHPE, SWE, BESS, and SASE.
Apr 03, 2025
Making Wireless Signals More Resistant to Interference
ECE Associate Professor Cristian Cassella and Assistant Professor Xufeng Zhang were awarded a $500,000 NSF grant for “Boosting Radios’ ReSilience to Interference by Harnessing Magnon-Phonon Coupling In the First ElectromechanicaL SpinPhonic Devices (SHIELD).” They are enhancing a wireless transceiver’s resilience against electromagnetic interference in the 5G and 6G realms in order to transmit data at extremely high rates.
Apr 02, 2025
AI Modeling Technology To Accelerate Cancer Diagnoses
Northeastern researchers, including BioE Assistant Research Professor Saeed Amal, are partnering with Santovia Path AI and Prima CARE to develop AI modeling tools to speed up the cancer diagnosis process. The research is based on AI technology created by Amal to assist in diagnosing various forms of breast and prostate cancers.