News
Aug 22, 2013
Camps & Sznaier Win NSF Grant
Electrical & Computer Engineering Professors Octavia Camps and Mario Sznaier were awarded a $455K National Science Foundation grant to study "Dynamic Invariants for Video Scenes Understanding." Octavia Camps and Mario Sznaier obtained their B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the Universidad de la Republica in Uruguay, and their M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the […]
Aug 09, 2013
Laser of the Future
ECE & MIE Assistant Professor Yongmin Liu has created the world’s first plasmofluidic lens which can manipulate light at much smaller scales using a tiny laser beam just a few micrometers wide. Source: News @ Northeastern Hold a magnifying glass over the driveway on a sunny day and it will focus sunlight into a single […]
Jul 26, 2013
Young scholars get a taste for science in the summer
Twenty-four high school students listened intently as civil and environmental engineering assistant professor Matthew Eckelman presented his research on modeling the energy inputs and outputs of commercial products and processes. At the end of the lecture, Eckelman revealed a surprising fact. “Seventeen years ago I was where you are now,” he told the students, who gathered in […]
Jul 11, 2013
ISACA Scholarship Winners
M.S. Information Sciences students Lujaen Basri and Nishant Gour won first and third place, respectively, at the 2013 H. Peet Raap Memorial Scholarship for their knowledge of the practice of Information Systems Auditing and the field of Governance, Risk and Compliance. ISACA engages in the development, adoption and use of globally accepted, industry-leading knowledge and practices for information systems. […]
Jun 21, 2013
Smart devices need smart communication standards
Today you can hold a slew of computers in the palm of your hand. Smartphones, said David Kaeli, a virtualization technology expert and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern, integrate programs such as browsers, applications, graphics, and cellular communication, each of which may require a different hardware device to power it efficiently. But handheld devices […]
Jun 17, 2013
Better Security Parameters
Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Yunsi Fei was awarded a $522K NSF Grant to create “A Unified Statistics-Based Framework for Side-Channel Attack Analysis and Security Evaluation of Cryptosystems”. Dr. Fei received her BS and MS in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University in China, and her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Harvard. She is […]
Jun 12, 2013
Quadcopter to the Rescue
Under the direction of Bahram Shafai, a team of Electrical and Computer Engineering capstone students Cameron Olean, Ben Leathe, Tim Hickson, Chase Hathaway, Dan Petrillo, and Andrew Barada have developed TRAQ—an autonomous quadcopter that uses a unique four-element antenna array to locate and navigate to the source of a radio signal. View video here.
Jun 11, 2013
A New Way to Communicate
Under the direction of Assistant Professor Kaushik Chowdhury and Associate Professor Waleed Meleis, a team of ECE capstone students have developed a Interoperable Communication Device (ICD) that allows 2-way radio users to communicate across channels without updating any hardware. Source: News @ Northeastern