News
Apr 08, 2025
2025 NSF GRFP Recipients
Current students and alumni were recipients of the 2025 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Awards. This prestigious program recognizes outstanding graduate students who have demonstrated the potential to be high achieving scientists and engineers early in their careers.
Apr 04, 2025
Report on Strategic Engineering for Next-Gen Wireless Competitiveness
ECE Professor and Associate Dean for Research Josep Jornet, who is co-director of the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things at Northeastern, co-organized the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA) visioning event that led to the report, “Strategic Engineering for Next-Generation Wireless Competitiveness.”
Apr 03, 2025
Affinity Student Groups 20th Annual Joint Recognition Banquet
Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and corporate partners were recognized for their commitments to engineering affinity student groups at the 20th Annual Joint Recognition Banquet. The participating groups included SHPE, SWE, BESS, and SASE.
Apr 03, 2025
Making Wireless Signals More Resistant to Interference
ECE Associate Professor Cristian Cassella and Assistant Professor Xufeng Zhang were awarded a $500,000 NSF grant for “Boosting Radios’ ReSilience to Interference by Harnessing Magnon-Phonon Coupling In the First ElectromechanicaL SpinPhonic Devices (SHIELD).” They are enhancing a wireless transceiver’s resilience against electromagnetic interference in the 5G and 6G realms in order to transmit data at extremely high rates.
Apr 02, 2025
Northeastern Researchers Partner With Santovia Path AI and Prima CARE To Improve Cancer Diagnoses
Northeastern researchers, including BioE Professor Saeed Amal, are partnering with Santovia Path AI and Prima CARE, which operates clinics and healthcare centers, to develop AI modeling tools to speed up the cancer diagnosis process.
Mar 31, 2025
ECE Student Receives Outstanding Master’s Student Award in Teaching
Vaibhav Kejriwal, MS’25, electrical and computer engineering, received the 2025 Outstanding Master’s Student Award in Teaching from Northeastern for his dedication to academic excellence and mentorship, impactful contributions to research and innovation, and commitment to fostering a collaborative learning environment.
Mar 25, 2025
Northeastern NAI Honors Innovators in AI and Healthcare
Northeastern’s National Academy of Inventors (NAI) chapter, honored ECE University Distinguished and William Lincoln Smith Professor Vincent Harris with the Innovation Impact Award; Justin Hayes, PhD’25, chemical engineering, with the Student Innovation Impact Award; and BioE Assistant Research Professor Saeed Amal with the Emerging Visionary Award, for their significant contributions to innovation, particularly in AI-driven healthcare.
Mar 18, 2025
Patent for Improved RF Filtering Technology
ECE Associate Professor Cristian Cassella was awarded a patent for “Two dimensional rod resonator for RF filtering.”