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Apr 14, 2014

Rappaport & Martinez-Lorenzo Awarded NSF Grant

ECE Professor Carey Rappaport and MIE Assistant Professor Jose Martinez-Lorenzo were awarded a $200K NSF grant to develop an early breast cancer imaging system that combines 3D Microwave Nearfield Radar Imaging (NRI) and Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT).

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Apr 14, 2014

New NEMS THz Technology

ECE Assistant Professor Matteo Rinaldi was awarded a $400K NSF CAREER grant to develop Chip Scale, High Resolution and Ultra-Fast Terahertz Spectroscopy and Imaging using nano electromechanical systems (NEMS). Such devices can be of use in many areas such as security, health care and telecommunications. Some of Dr. Rinaldi's research focus areas are microsystems, sensor design […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Apr 14, 2014

Novel 2D Materials

ECE Associate Professor Hossein Mosallaei was awarded a $1M Department of Defense (DOD) MURI grant as part of a team to work on EM-Physical phenomena of Strongly Linked 2D Functional Materials.  The DOD program is very competitive and every year it opens up a wide variety of opportunities for research.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Apr 11, 2014

COE Dean's Award

ECE PhD Aida Ehyaei was awarded the COE Dean's Award at this year's RISE Expo for "A System For Gathering Data on Sleep Behavior and Context in the Home Setting".  

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Apr 11, 2014

Outstanding Research Award

ECE PhD student Ceyhun Karbeyaz received a Graduate Computer and Information Sciences Research Award at this year's RISE Expo for a Web-based Laboratory for Computational Social Science. The online laboratory will allow researchers to conduct experiments in a much larger scale than they ever could.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Apr 11, 2014

Interdisciplinary Research

Jodi Belz (BioE PhD), Stacey Markovic (EE PhD), and Mark Niedre (ECE Assistant Professor) were awarded a Graduate Interdisciplinary Research Award at this year’s RISE Expo. The project, called “Localized tumor delivery of radiosensitizers and chemotherapeutics using ‘INCeRT’ implants” involves a new chemo-treatment that can potentially reduce tumors.

Bioengineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Apr 10, 2014

ECE Professor Ali Abur Named Winner of 2014 IEEE Power & Energy Society Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award

ECE Prof. Ali Abur whose expertise includes fault identification in transmissions and distribution networks, power system state estimation, and visualization of power system operation—has been named the 2014 winner of the IEEE PES Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award. He joins a distinguished cohort of PES scholars providing excellence in engineering education.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Apr 10, 2014

Three Northeastern students named Goldwater Scholars

Three North­eastern Uni­ver­sity students—Theo Bowe, S’16, Tushar Swamy, E/S’15, and Greg Allan, E/S’16—have been selected to receive the pres­ti­gious Barry M. Gold­water Scholarship. A total of 283 sopho­mores and juniors in the U.S. were named Gold­water Scholars for the 2014–15 aca­d­emic year. Scholars were selected from a field of 1,166 math, sci­ence, and engi­neering stu­dents […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering