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Apr 24, 2014
SDM14 Best Paper Award
Computer Engineering PhD student Sheng Li and ECE & CCIS Assistant Professor Y. Raymond Fu were awarded the Best Paper Award at the prestigious SIAM International Conference on Data Mining for their paper on "Robust Subspace Discovery through Supervised Low-Rank Constraints". Only 1 paper out of the 384 submissions received this award.
Apr 24, 2014
SDM Best Paper Award
Computer Engineering PhD student Sheng Li and ECE & CCIS Assistant Professor Y. Raymond Fu were awarded the Best Paper Award at the prestigious SIAM International Conference on Data Mining for their paper on "Robust Subspace Discovery through Supervised Low-Rank Constraints". Only 1 paper out of the 384 submissions received this award.
Apr 24, 2014
How to fix the Internet’s plumbing problem
Twenty-five years ago, an engineer at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva Switzerland, had an idea that would change the world. Tim Berners Lee sent a memo to his colleagues at the world’s largest particle physics laboratory proposing a way for all of its computers—and eventually all the computers in the world—to talk […]
Apr 23, 2014
Afternoon at the ‘museum’
It’s April 9, and a seventh grader from the James P. Timilty Middle School in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood is standing on a rotating platform on the third floor of Northeastern’s Snell Engineering building holding onto a spinning bicycle wheel. “When you take physics later,” says Yoshua Rozen, E’18, “you’ll learn all about the conservation of […]
Apr 14, 2014
2 ECE Students Chosen for Huntington 100
Dimitri Makris and Joseph Robinson were chosen for this year’s “Huntington 100”, a prestigious honor given to the most outstanding students for their hard work and achievements.
Apr 14, 2014
Best Paper at EuCAP
ECE PhD student Yolanda Rodriquez, CenSSIS Senior Research Engineer Borja Ganzalez, ECE Professor Carey Rappaport and MIE Assistant Professor Jose Martinez-Lorenzo won the Best Propagation Paper Award at the 8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation for "A compressed sensing-based imaging system".
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).
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 […]