News
Dec 22, 2008
Purnima Ratilal is winner of Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
This is the nation's highest honor for professionals at the outset of their independent scientific research careers.
Dec 10, 2008
Necmiye Ozay receives CDC best student paper award
Necmiye Ozay, an Electrical Engineering graduate student, is the recipient of the best student paper award at the Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) for her paper entitled "A sparsification approach to set membership identification of a class of affine hybrid systems", co-authored with M. Sznaier, C. Lagoa and O. Camps.
Dec 10, 2008
Fabrizio Lombardi named Fellow of IEEE
Professor Fabrizio Lombardi has been elected a Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to testing and fault tolerance of digital systems.
Dec 03, 2008
Chairman of Board receives New York Life’s 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award
Sy Sternberg, ME '68, Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Northeastern and Chairman of the Board at New York Life Insurance Company, received New York Life’s 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Nov 25, 2008
A Clearer Picture of Cancer
Mark Niedre, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern, developed a new high resolution method for in vivo fluorescence imaging. The list of genes and proteins associated with cancer and other diseases is growing rapidly: earlier this month, for instance, scientists reported sequencing the whole genome of a cancer cell for the first time. […]
Nov 06, 2008
Computer Finds Molecules Causing Diseases
Mehdi Tahoori, assistant professor of ECE, was featured for research focused on schizophrenia, major depression & cancer at UPI.com. Researchers say they have created an algorithm that can identify genes & proteins most likely to cause such complex diseases. U.S. scientists say they have created an algorithm that can identify genes and proteins most likely […]
Oct 28, 2008
Ribbon-Cutting for ALERT
Inauguration of the DHS Research Center of Excellence for Explosives Detection, Mitigation & Response. Northeastern University will inaugurate the Center for Awareness and Localization of Explosives-Related Threats (ALERT) on Thursday, October 30, 2008. ALERT, a new research Center of Excellence for Explosives Detection, Mitigation & Response, is funded by the Department of Homeland Security. The ceremony […]
Oct 22, 2008
Assistant Professor Mehdi Baradaran Tahoori's Research Article is the Cover Story in Science Signaling
Assistant Professor Mehdi Baradaran Tahoori's Research Article is the Cover Story in Science Signaling. The research article is titled "Fault Diagnosis Engineering of Digital Circuits Can Identify Vulnerable Molecules in Complex Cellular Pathways". Science Signaling is the premier journal of cell signaling in physiology and disease. Mehdi Tahoori received his PhD and M.S degrees in Electrical […]