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Feb 26, 2025
Abowd Receives ACM SIGCHI Special Recognition Award
Gregory D. Abowd, dean of the College of Engineering and ECE professor, received the Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI) Special Recognition Award “for his extraordinary ability to inspire and mentor individuals from diverse backgrounds and his commitment to fostering collaboration, creativity, and impact.”
Feb 25, 2025
Young Alumni Impact Award Winners Share Their Career Journeys
As part of Engineers Week, Gregory Abowd, dean of the College of Engineering, presented the college’s inaugural Young Alumni Impact Awards to six recent graduates who are transforming industries and inspiring the next generation. The award recipients shared their career journeys and how they turned their experiential education into impactful careers. View the video recap and photo gallery.
Feb 19, 2025
Patent for AI-Powered Control of Drone Networks
ECE William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia and Associate Research Professor Salvatore D’Oro were awarded a patent for “Distributed deep reinforcement learning framework for software-defined unmanned aerial vehicle network control.”
Feb 19, 2025
Patent for Automated Control of Drone Swarm Networks
ECE William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia and Associate Research Professor Salvatore D’Oro were awarded a patent for “Software defined drone network control system.”
Feb 19, 2025
Patent for Contactless In-Bed Pressure Estimation
ECE Associate Professor Sarah Ostadabbas was awarded a patent for “Method and system for in-bed contact pressure estimation via contactless imaging.”
Feb 18, 2025
$2M DARPA Award for MEMS Inertial Sensor To Revolutionize Navigation Systems
ECE Associate Professor Cristian Cassella (PI), Professor Matteo Rinaldi, Professor David Horsley, and Assistant Professor Benyamin Davaji were awarded a $2 million DARPA grant for “Enabling Higher Scale Factors in Gyroscopes Through soFt and LacAlized interface-States in microelectromecHanical resonators (FLASH).”
Feb 07, 2025
Understanding Superconductivity With Graphene
ECE/COS Associate Professor Kin Chung Fong published research on “Superfluid Stiffness of Twisted Trilayer Graphene Superconductors” in Nature. Written in collaboration with researchers at Harvard and MIT, Fong uses ideas from resonant circuits to measure superfluid stiffness, providing deep insights into the nature of unconventional high-temperature superconductivity.
Feb 07, 2025
Spring 2025 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several COE, COS, and Khoury students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of the Spring 2025 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.