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Sep 22, 2011

Redesigning the Internet

ECE Associate Professor Edmund Yeh is working with NSF’s Future Internet Architecture Program to develop a method that would relieve network congestion and privacy concerns when surfing the internet.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Sep 09, 2011

Prof. Michael Silevitch Discusses Homeland Security After 9/11

Professor Michael Silevitch, co-director of the Center for Awareness and Localization of Explosives Related Threats (ALERT), talks about homeland security ten years after 9/11. Topics Professor Silevitch discusses include how 9/11 changed the perception of homeland security in the U.S., how far we have come as a nation with regards to national security, and what challenges remain.

Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Sep 06, 2011

Detecting Mines Using GPR

ECE Professor Carey Rappaport was awarded a $200K NSF grant to incorporate a high resolution ground penetrating radar system into a walking robot to locate land mines and other IEDs.

Bioengineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Aug 29, 2011

Building a Better Tomorrow

ECE professors Ali Abur, Hanoch Lev-Ari, and former COE professor Alex Stankovic secured a $2.3M grant from the NSF and the Dept. of Energy to help develop the nation’s next generation of electric power transmission grids. Source: News @ Northeastern

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Aug 29, 2011

Building a Better Tomorrow

ECE professors Ali Abur, Hanoch Lev-Ari, and former COE professor Alex Stankovic secured a $2.3M grant from the NSF and the Dept. of Energy to help develop the nation's next generation of electric power transmission grids.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Aug 22, 2011

Monitoring Air Quality

ECE Assistant Professor Kaushik Chowdhury and Associate Professor Stefano Basagni were awarded an $170K NSF Grant to develop a series of networks to monitor air pollution.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Aug 15, 2011

One of the Top Articles

ECE Associate Professor, Hossein Mosallaei’s paper “Array of Planar Plasmonic Scatteres Functioning as Light Concentrator” is one of the top downloaded articles in July 2011 from the journal Optic Letters.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jul 20, 2011

Kirda Receives NSF Grant

ECE and CCS Associate Professor Engin Kirda was awarded a $486K NSF grant to develop tools to automatically detect when a malicious bot is trying to connect to a computer host.

Electrical & Computer Engineering