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Sep 14, 2026
Making Sure Students Understand the Code in the Age of AI
To address the challenges of artificial intelligence in the classroom, ECE Professor Hanumant Singh pairs homework assignments with corresponding in-person quizzes, using the lower of the two grades as the final score to ensure students truly understand the material even when utilizing AI tools.
Sep 11, 2026
Imani Receives Air Force Young Investigator Program Award
Mahdi Imani, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University, has received an Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) award for research on AI reasoning and human-AI collaboration. The three-year, $450,000 award supports his project, “Foundations of Trust and Influence in Human-AI Teams: Identifiability, Causal Measurement, and Stability”.
Sep 10, 2026
Su and Fu Receive Best Paper Award at ECCV DriveX Workshop
ECE Assistant Professor Lili Su and Professor Raymond Fu, alongside their research group, received the DriveX@ECCV 2026 Best Paper Award at the DriveX Workshop during the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2026 in Malmö for their paper titled “Post-Training in End-to-End Autonomous Driving: Taxonomy, Methods, and Challenges.”
Sep 08, 2026
Patent for Robust Wi-Fi Environment Sensing Technology
ECE Associate Professor Francesco Restuccia was awarded a patent for “System and method for sensing an environment.”
Sep 08, 2026
Patent for Zeta-Based AC Link Power Converter
ECE Associate Professor Mahshid Amirabadi was awarded a patent for “Zeta-based AC link universal power converter.”
Sep 04, 2026
Inaugural Summer Program Connects Engineering Students to Seattle Robotics Industry
Northeastern University’s inaugural seven-week “Summer In Seattle” program gave undergraduate engineering students hands-on experience in the Pacific Northwest’s vibrant robotics ecosystem through immersive coursework, industry site visits, and simulation projects.
Aug 14, 2026
Sturdier Motion Sensors Built to Survive Shock and Vibration
Research conducted by ECE Associate Professor Cristian Cassella, Assistant Professor Benyamin Davaji, Professor Matteo Rinaldi, and ECE/MIE Professor David Horsley titled “Toward Enhanced Inertial Sensing via Dynamically Soft Topological States in Piezoelectric Microacoustic Metamaterials” was published in Advanced Functional Materials.
Aug 11, 2026
Innovative Magnonic Resonator Design Advances Compact and Energy-Efficient Microwave Signal Platforms
ECE Assistant Professor Xufeng Zhang’s research on “Generation of ultra-broadband frequency comb in strongly bistable nonlinear magnonic resonator” was published in Nature Communications.