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May 12, 2025
Northeastern’s Boston Campus Hosts Inaugural Magnetics Workshop
The Inaugural NU Cross-College Magnetics Center Workshop, hosted at Northeastern’s Boston campus on May 7, 2025, brought together dozens of participants from the university’s Boston, Burlington, and Portland campuses.

May 08, 2025
ECE Team Wins Best Reproducible Paper Award at ACM MMSys 2025
A research team led by Guodong Chen, PhD’29, computer engineering, won the Best Reproducible Paper Award at ACM MMSys 2025 for research on “TVMC: Time-Varying Mesh Compression Using Volume-Tracked Reference Meshes.”

May 01, 2025
Cassella Receives EFTF Young Scientist Award
ECE Associate Professor Cristian Cassella is the recipient of the European Frequency and Time Forum (EFTF) Young Scientist Award “for his seminal research on metamaterials in RF microacoustics as well as for his pioneering contributions on long-range remote sensors and lower-noise frequency generators through parametric nonlinearities.”

Apr 30, 2025
Sontag Elected Member of National Academy of Sciences
Eduardo Sontag, university distinguished professor of ECE/BioE, was elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

Apr 30, 2025
Patent for Efficient Computation Request Servicing
ECE Professor Edmund Yeh was awarded a patent for “Network and method for servicing a computation request.”

Apr 30, 2025
Abowd Elected Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Gregory D. Abowd, dean of the College of Engineering and ECE professor, was elected a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in the area of Computer Sciences. The Academy honors excellence across disciplines and addresses critical global issues.

Apr 30, 2025
Patent for 3D Human Pose Estimation System
ECE Associate Professor Sarah Ostadabbas was awarded a patent for “3D human pose estimation system.”

Apr 24, 2025
Researchers Observe Axion Quasiparticles for the First Time
COS/ECE Associate Professor Kin Chung Fong and more than a dozen researchers from across the globe published “Observation of the Axion Quasiparticle in 2D MnBi2Te4 ” in Nature, revealing how they were able to observe axion quasiparticles for the first time, adding to their understanding of dark matter.