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Sep 28, 2022
Zhang Receives ONR YIP Award to Develop THz System-on-a-Chip
ECE Assistant Professor Xufeng Zhang was awarded an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award for “Cryogenically Enabled Ultrabroadband THz System-on-a-Chip.” With its comprehensive on-chip signal processing capabilities including THz generation, routing, manipulation, and detection, novel THz SOCs will be suitable for a broad range of applications such as THz wireless communication and sensing without any off-chip components.
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Sep 26, 2022
Impact Engines Spur Multidisciplinary Research Innovation to Solve Global Challenges
Northeastern University has selected its first cohort of Impact Engines to ignite measurable change in problem-solving, three of the five of which are led by engineering faculty.
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Sep 26, 2022
Restuccia Receives ONR YIP Award for 6G Spectrum Dominance
ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia was awarded an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award for “Polymorphic Wireless Computing for Ultra-Wideband 6G Spectrum Dominance.” The project will lay the foundations of a new paradigm named polymorphic wireless computing for 6G wireless systems.
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Sep 23, 2022
Singh Receives IEEEOES 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award
ECE/MIE Professor Hanumant Singh received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society for his work on autonomous underwater vehicles.
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Sep 20, 2022
Northeastern in Top 100 Universities with U.S. Utility Patents
For the seventh consecutive year, Northeastern University has appeared in the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) list of Top 100 Universities that were granted U.S. utility patents in 2021, cementing it as a world leader in academia and research.
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Sep 20, 2022
Spring 2022 Spark Fund Awardees
Bouve/ChE University Distinguished Professor Mansoor Amiji, ChE Assistant Professor Sara Hashmi, ECE Professor Purnima Ratilal-Makris, and MIE Assistant Professor Mohsen Moghaddam are recipients of the Spring 2022 Spark Fund Awards. The goal of the award is to advance a technology or suite of technologies from academia towards commercialization.
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Sep 19, 2022
Ostadabbas Paper Wins Best Scientific Paper Award at the ICPR 2022
The paper entitled “InfAnFace: Bridging the infant-adult domain gap in facial landmark estimation in the wild,” authored by ECE Assistant Professor Sarah Ostadabbas and her team at the Augmented Cognition Lab, received the Best Scientific Paper Award in the Biomedical Track at the 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2022).
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Sep 16, 2022
Designing the Next Generation of AI-Driven Dynamic Spectrum Access Systems
ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia, in collaboration with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (lead) and Florida International University, was awarded a $750K NSF grant for “SWIFT: AI-based Sensing for Improved Resiliency via Spectral Adaptation with Lifelong Learning.” The project will demonstrate a system for spectral situational awareness through radio frequency machine learning.