News
Jan 06, 2009
Prof. Marengo named 2008 most distinguished alumnus
Prof. Edwin Marengo was named the 2008 most distinguished alumnus of the Technological University of Panama in the category of research, innovation, and technological development. The university grants five awards to the most distinguished alumni of the year, in five different categories.
Jan 02, 2009
Congratulations to Roni Mittelman and Dilber Gamsiz
Roni Mittelman, an Electrical Engineering PhD student and Dilber Gamsiz, a Chemical Engineering PhD student, are recipients of the Dissertation Writing Fellowships for the 2009 Spring Semester. The award is sponsored by the Office of the Provost and offers financial support to Ph.D. candidates so they may spend their final semester writing.
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 […]