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Aug 11, 2023
Everything to Know About the 5G Revolution—and How it Will Usher in 6G
Northeastern’s Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things is working on improving 5G operability and developing 6G technology, which will enable faster speeds and more reliable connections.
Aug 09, 2023
Northeastern Receives One of First Research Grants from CHIPS and Science Act’s $1.5 Billion Fund to Study Next-Gen Wireless Networks
The announcement of the grants was made at Northeastern’s Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex in Boston and was followed by a tour of the Wireless Internet of Things lab. The CHIPS and Science Act provides $1.5 billion over the next decade to support the development of open and interoperable wireless networks.
Aug 03, 2023
Fei’s Group Receives ACM Distinguished Papers Award
Computer engineering graduate students Ruyi Ding, PhD’24, Cheng Gongye, PhD’23, Siyue Wang, PhD’22, Mathematics Professor A. Adam Ding, and ECE Professor Yunsi Fei were awarded a Distinguished Papers Award at the 18th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security for their paper on “EMShepherd: Detecting Adversarial Samples via Side-channel Leakage.”
Aug 02, 2023
Developing Biodegradable Triboelectric Nanogenerator for Sustainable Energy Harvesting
ECE Professor Ravinder Dahiya’s research on “Aligned PLLA electrospun fibres based biodegradable triboelectric nanogenerator” was published in Nano Energy.
Jul 31, 2023
Using Visual Correspondences to See the World in Motion
ECE Associate Professor Xue “Shelley” Lin, in collaboration with Khoury Assistant Professor Huaizu Jiang, was awarded a $600,000 NSF grant for “Toward Efficient and Robust Dynamic Scene Understanding Based on Visual Correspondences.”
Jul 26, 2023
Creating Next-Gen Robotic e-Skin with Sensing and Actuation Capabilities
ECE Professor Ravinder Dahiya was awarded a $230,000 NSF Eager grant for “Flexible and Compressible e-Skin Integrated with Soft Magnetic Coil Based Ultra-thin Actuator and Touch Sensor for Robotics Applications.”
Jul 26, 2023
Chowdhury Selected as Finalist for Blavatnik National Award in Physical Sciences & Engineering
ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury was selected as a finalist for the 2023 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists in Physical Sciences & Engineering for addressing the global need of telecommunications spectrum scarcity, as well as improve connectivity by designing next generation wireless systems and machine learning-based network operations.
Jul 25, 2023
Enhancing Security for Brain-Inspired Computing
ECE Assistant Professor Xiaolin Xu, in collaboration with Shaolei Ren from the University of California-Riverside, was awarded a $600,000 NSF grant for “Securing Brain-inspired Hyperdimensional Computing against Design-time and Run-time Attacks for Edge Devices.”