News
Apr 13, 2026
ECE Student Receives 2026 Outstanding PhD Student Award in Research
Nicolas Casilli, E’21, MS’21, PhD’26, electrical engineering, is the recipient of an Outstanding PhD Student Award in Research, which recognizes those who have shown an exceptional ability to conduct high-level research and make contributions to the scholarly literature in their fields.
Apr 13, 2026
2026 NSF GRFP Recipients
Current students and alumni were recipients of the 2026 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 09, 2026
2026 COE Outstanding Graduate Student Awards
The COE Outstanding Graduate Student Awards for 2026 were awarded to more than 50 graduate students across the Northeastern global campus for their exceptional achievements in research, teaching, leadership, and service.
Apr 02, 2026
Digital Twins for MEMS Manufacturing
ECE Assistant Professor Benyamin Davaji is co-organizing a full-day workshop on Digital Twins for MEMS Manufacturing at the Hilton Head 2026 conference to explore how AI-driven virtual models can accelerate semiconductor design and bridge the gap between academic research and industrial production.
Mar 30, 2026
First Observation of Quantum Oscillations in Second-Order Electrical Transport
COS/ECE Professor Mingzhong Wu and his team recently published “Quantum Oscillations of Nonlinear Electrical Transport in a Topological Dirac Semimetal” in Physical Review Letters.
Mar 26, 2026
NSF CAREER Award to Develop Next Generation Optical Frequency Combs
ECE Assistant Professor Sunil Mittal was awarded a $560K NSF CAREER award for “On-Chip Coupled Resonator Arrays for Generating Unconventional Classical and Quantum Optical Frequency Combs (CRAYONS).”
Mar 25, 2026
Best Paper Award at 3DV 2026 for LAPA Multi-Camera Point Tracking
ECE Associate Professor Sarah Ostadabbas and her team of PhD, MS, and postdoctoral researchers at the Augmented Cognition Lab received the Best Paper Award at the 2026 International Conference on 3D Vision for their paper on “Look Around and Pay Attention: Multi-camera Point Tracking Reimagined with Transformers”.
Mar 17, 2026
Patent for Arc Fault Detection for Solar Power Systems
ECE Professor Bradley Lehman was awarded a patent for “Arc fault detection using current signal demodulation, outlier elimination, and autocorrelation energy thresholds.”