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Jun 10, 2024
Northeastern Researchers Participate in Inaugural ClimaTech Conference
ECE/Khoury Professor Jennifer Dy, ECE/MIE Professor Hanumant Singh, and CEE Assistant Professor Julia Hopkins took part in the inaugural ClimaTech conference, joining hundreds of energy and technology experts from around the world who gathered to explore how protecting the environment can contribute to economic growth.
Jun 06, 2024
Ensuring Safety and Evaluating Risks for Deep-Sea Missions
ECE/MIE Professor Hanumant Singh outlines the safety certifications and risk evaluations that go into deep-sea research missions in autonomous underwater vehicles. Despite last year’s OceanGate tragedy, another manned deep dive is planned to take place in the summer of 2026.
Jun 05, 2024
Best Paper Runner-Up for X5G Open Testbed
ECE PhD students, and ECE and WIOT faculty and research staff received the Best Paper Runner-Up for their paper, “An Open, Programmable, Multi-Vendor 5G O-RAN Testbed With NVIDIA ARC and OpenAir Interface,” at the 2nd Workshop on Next-Generation Open and Programmable Radio Access Networks (NG-OPERA).
Jun 05, 2024
Best Short Paper Award for Simulating Connected Cars With ColosSUMO
ECE Research Engineer Gabriele Gemmi, Principal Research Scientist Pedram Johari, Assistant Research Professor Michael Polese, and William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia received the Best Short Paper Award for their paper “ColosSUMO: Evaluating Cooperative Driving Applications With Colosseum” at the 2024 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) in Japan.
Jun 05, 2024
Revolutionizing Refrigeration With Tiny Wireless Sensors
ECE Associate Professor Cristian Cassella and Distinguished Professor Nian Sun received a $500,000 NSF grant for “Boosting the Cold Chain Efficiency Through Integrated, Magnetoelectric, Piezoelectric and Ferroelectric Devices in pAssive on-Chip Tags (IMPACT).”
May 22, 2024
Enhancing AR/VR Performance in 5G Networks
ECE Professor Edmund Yeh and Associate Professor Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, in collaboration with Mai Vu from Tufts University, were awarded a $600,000 NSF grant for “TARGET: Latency-aware Edge Computing for VR/AR in 5G and Beyond Networks.”
May 20, 2024
Leeser Delivers Keynote at FCCM 2024
ECE Professor Miriam Leeser gave a keynote speech on “Pets vs Cattle: Heterogeneous Systems in the 21st Century” at the 32nd IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines.
May 20, 2024
ECE Professors Recognized Among Leading Women in Visual Tech and AI
ECE Professor Octavia Camps and ECE Associate Professor Sarah Ostadabbas were recognized by LDV Capital as two of the 120+ Women Spearheading Advances in Visual Tech and AI, which highlights contributions of women in fields such as machine vision, pattern recognition, and generative models.