News
Sep 21, 2024
$13M ARPA-H Award for Breakthrough 3D Imaging To Detect Lung Cancer Early
Soner Sonmezoglu, ECE assistant professor, was awarded a $13 million grant from the ARPA-H, titled “PAIL: PhotoAcoustic Imaging technology for diagnostic Lung assessment.” The result of the effort will be a radically new optical photoacoustic imaging system with advanced image reconstruction algorithms to assist in diagnosing and treating cancer and other major diseases.
Sep 19, 2024
Revolutionizing Edge Computing With Superconducting Deep Neural Networks
ECE Assistant Professors Marco Colangelo and Francesco Restuccia were awarded a two-year $500,000 DARPA grant for “Superconducting Deep Neural Networks at the Edge.” They aim to reduce end-to-end processing latency by at least three orders of magnitude compared to existing edge computing paradigms without impacting AI performance.
Sep 19, 2024
Explaining Continued Consequences of Cyberattack on a Healthcare Provider
ECE/Khoury Professor Kevin Fu explains why some healthcare providers may still be suffering from a cyberattack that occurred this February on medical payment processing provider Change Healthcare and how the continued consequences represent a need for heightened government scrutiny.
Sep 18, 2024
Understanding the Causes and Implications of Hezbollah Pager Explosions
ECE Professor and Interim Chair Josep Jornet explains what led thousands of explosive-filled pagers planted by the militant group Hezbollah to detonate in parts of Lebanon and Syria, citing a tampered fail-safe mechanism within the pagers as the likely cause.
Sep 17, 2024
Patent for Improved Underwater Acoustic Networking
ECE William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia and Research Assistant Professor Emrecan Demirors were awarded a patent for designing a “Method and apparatus for wireless communications.”
Sep 17, 2024
Student Club Is Innovating To Lower the Cost of Satellites
Matthew O’Rourke, E’25, mechanical engineering, and Rachel Rakushkin, E’26, electrical engineering, were awarded Mosaic Prototype awards from Northeastern’s Center for Entrepreneurship Education for their work developing technologies to reduce the cost of satellite components as part of the Project Horizons student club.
Sep 12, 2024
Shi Selected for 35 Innovators Under 35
ECE/Khoury Assistant Professor Weiyan Shi was named as one of MIT’s Tech Review 35 Innovators Under 35 for her work in artificial intelligence and her research in natural language processing and persuasive dialogues.
Sep 05, 2024
Creating International Deep Tech Partnerships
ECE Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute for NanoSystems Innovation David Horsley, in collaboration with Innovation Impact International, was awarded a $299,898 NSF EAGER grant for “Catalyzing Deep Tech Innovation and Entrepreneurship via International Partnerships.”