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Oct 09, 2023
Ostadabbas Receives Sony Faculty Innovation Award
ECE Associate Professor Sarah Ostadabbas received the Sony Faculty Innovation Award for her project titled “Live Stream Temporally Embedded 3D Human Body Pose and Shape Estimation,” set to commence in October 2023. Notably, this marks the inaugural occasion where a member of Northeastern University has received this prestigious award from Sony.
Oct 03, 2023
There are Ghosts in your Machine. Cybersecurity Researcher can Make Self-driving Cars Hallucinate
ECE/Khoury Professor Kevin Fu is researching methods to prevent cyberattacks in self-driving cars caused by optical illusions.
Oct 02, 2023
From Classroom Project to Presented Paper
Electrical and computer engineering students Justin Kawakami, E’23, and Dominik Zajac, E’24, who both took the class EECE 4632 Hardware-Software Codesign for FPGA-Based Systems with Professor Miriam Leeser, turned one of their classroom projects into a paper on “Selective Encryption of Compressed Image Regions on the Edge with Reconfigurable Hardware” that was presented at the […]
Sep 28, 2023
AI and Machine Learning Help Researchers Get Audio from Still Images and Silent Videos
ECE/Khoury Professor Kevin Fu has developed a machine learning tool called Side Eye that can extract audio from pictures and even muted videos.
Sep 28, 2023
Detecting Arc Faults in Photovoltaic Systems
ECE Professor Bradley Lehman was awarded a patent for “Arc fault detection based on photovoltaic operating characteristics and extraction of pink noise behavior.”
Sep 28, 2023
Developing a Robotic Aquaculture System
BioE/ECE Affiliated Faculty Joseph Ayers, MES/CEE Professor Mark Patterson, CEE Chair Jerome Hajjar, ECE Professor Milica Stojanovic, and CEE/MES Associate Professor Amy Mueller were awarded a patent for “Robotic aquaculture system and methods.”
Sep 25, 2023
Designing New Chips for AI-Enabled Spectrum Perception
ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia; in collaboration with Arjuna Madanayake from Florida International University, Vishal Saxena from the University of Delaware, and Jia Di from the University of Arkansas; was awarded a $2M NSF grant for “FuSe: Deep Learning and Signal Processing using Silicon Photonics and Digital CMOS Circuits for Ultra-Wideband Spectrum Perception.”
Sep 22, 2023
Creating New Sensor Technology
ECE Associate Professor Cristian Casella and Professor Matteo Rinaldi were awarded a patent for “Subharmonic tags for remote continuous and threshold sensing.”