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Feb 25, 2013
Congratulations Sarah Brown
Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD student Sarah Brown was awarded the Mike Shinn Distinguished Member of the Year award for her excellent scholastic performance and her dedicated service to NSBE. The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), is a nonprofit organization that is owned and managed by its members. With more than 30,000 members around the world, […]
Jan 30, 2013
Chowdhury Gets NSF Grant
ECE Assistant Professor Kaushik Chowdhury was awarded a $278K EAGER NSF Grant for creating Cognitive Radio Enabled Spectrum Aware Intelligent Vehicular Networks. The NSF funds research and education in science and engineering, through grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements. The Foundation accounts for about 20 percent of federal support to academic institutions for basic research.
Jan 30, 2013
Fu Awarded $1M NSF Grant
Electrical and Computer Engineering and CCIS Assistant Professor Raymond Fu won a $1M NSF grant to develop an at-home knee osteoarthritis rehabilitation therapy utilizing automated data analysis. The NSF funds research and education in science and engineering, through grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements. The Foundation accounts for about 20 percent of federal support to academic institutions for […]
Jan 15, 2013
Journey of Experience
ECE PhD student Sarah Brown was featured in Diversity/Careers for how her experiences at Northeastern from undergraduate to graduate shaped her career goals. Diversity/Careers publishes six bi-monthly professional issues and two semi-annual minority college issues a year. Subscriptions, electronic or hard-copy, are free to qualified engineers, information technology professionals and small business owners. Additional copies are distributed at diversity-focused […]
Jan 04, 2013
Lombardi Named Editor in Chief
ECE Professor Fabrizio Lombardi has been named the inaugural Editor in Chief of the new open-access journal, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. The IEEE Computer Society is the computing professional's single, unmatched source for technology information, inspiration and collaboration. By making the most up-to-date and advanced information in the computing world easily accessible, […]
Dec 18, 2012
Sznaier Joins the less than 1% of CSS Members with this Distinction
ECE Professor Mario Sznaier was presented with the 2012 IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Member Award for his scientific contributions to multi objective robust control, dynamic vision & imaging, and identification and for his outstanding service.
Nov 19, 2012
Green High Performance Computing Center opens its doors
We heat up when we’re working hard. Computers do, too. And as big data continues to get bigger, we’re asking these machines to work even harder, which means they require more energy than ever. The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, a new nine-acre, $165 million high-tech center in Holyoke, Mass., addresses those challenges in novel ways. […]
Nov 07, 2012
A new wave for antennas
From solar panels to high-resolution imaging, a host of advanced technologies relies on the manipulation of light waves. Engineers have traditionally bent light beams toward a desired focal point using glass lenses, according to Hossein Mosallaei, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University. But lenses are bulky and curved, limiting their ability to […]