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Jun 01, 2026
Restuccia Receives Army Research Office Early Career Program Award to Study Next-Generation MIMO Networking
ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia has received the Army Research Office Early Career Program Award to develop the scientific foundations of secure, scalable, and resilient multi-input, multi-output (MIMO) communications.
May 27, 2026
Patent for Next Generation Data Compression Technology for Faster Wireless Connections
ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia was awarded a patent for “Beamforming in wireless networks via split computing.”
May 26, 2026
Rebuilding From Scratch: How Northeastern’s Mars Rover Team will Overcome the Competition
Northeastern University Mars Rover team has rebuilt their rover from scratch, and are confident that their new upgrades will serve them well in this year’s University Rover Challenge in Utah.
May 26, 2026
Uncovering the Mystery Behind Physical AI
The term “physical AI”, coined by the CEO of NVIDIA, refers to any AI system that is designed to interact with its environment. Northeastern COE professors, through the Physical AI Research Initiative (PAIR), weigh in with their own knowledge and research on the concept, and where it may be headed.
May 26, 2026
Davaji Receives the Hilton Head Rising Star of Microsystems Award
ECE Assistant Professor Benyamin Davaji won the 2026 Hilton Head Rising Star of Microsystems Award, which recognizes outstanding early-career faculty who are emerging leaders in microsystems research and who have demonstrated strong potential for sustained technical impact and community leadership.
May 19, 2026
Patent for Brainwave Feedback Technology to Help Treat Anxiety and Depression
ECE Professor Sarah Ostadabbas has received a patent for “System and method for providing neurofeedback from steady-state visual evoked potentials to target affect-biased attention for treating therapeutic outcomes such as anxiety and depression.”
May 19, 2026
Patent for Compressing and Accelerating Mobile AI Models
ECE Professor Yanzhi Wang was awarded a patent for “Computer-implemented methods and systems for compressing recurrent neural network (RNN) models and accelerating RNN execution in mobile devices to achieve real-time inference.”
May 13, 2026
Building on Strength A Decade of Progress in Flexible Electronics
ECE Professor Ravinder Dahiya published an editorial titled “Building on strength: a decade of progress in flexible electronics” to mark the 10th anniversary of npj Flexible Electronics, in which he is one of the editors-in-chief.