News
Sep 02, 2014
Chowdhury Awarded EAGER Grant
ECE Assistant Professor Kaushik Chowdhury was awarded a $300K EAGER NSF grant to design a network protocol stack using weak electrical currents instead of RF waves in implanted sensors.
Aug 27, 2014
Infrared Imaging System
ECE Associate Professor Charles DiMarzio was awarded a patent for his “Tunable laser-based infrared imaging system and method of use thereof ”.
Aug 27, 2014
Vibration Energy Harvester
ECE Professor Nian Sun was awarded a patent for his invention of a vibration energy harvesting device with increased output power density.
Aug 27, 2014
Building Underwater Networks
ECE associate professors Stefano Basagni, Yunsi Fei, & professor Milica Stojanovic were awarded a $400K NSF grant to develop a Northeastern University Marine Observatory NETwork (NU MONET).
Aug 13, 2014
Thwarting Cyber-espionage
ECE & Khoury College Associate Professor Engin Kirda is developing advanced malware detection software to analyze and protect against the growing number of targeted cyberattacks. When it comes to Internet attacks, hackers have traditionally taken a blanket approach, sending out malware to large, random groups of people and hoping that something would stick. But in […]
Aug 08, 2014
Detecting Vulnerabilities
ECE & CCIS Associate Professor Engin Kirda & Assistant Professor Wil Robertson won a $500K NSF grant to build an analysis tool which automates, engineers, & summarizes closed source binary software
Aug 08, 2014
Modeling Nonlinear Data
ECE Professors Octavia Camps, Mario Sznaier, & CEE Associate Professor Ferdinand Hellweger were awarded a $380K NSF grant to use OUR Charles to generate models of high volume nonlinear data steams.
Aug 06, 2014
Learning While Teaching
By participating in NUTRONS, NU’s FIRST Robotics team, undergraduates are able to teach high school students to build robots while reinforcing their own engineering skills.