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Jul 07, 2022
Sontag Receives MURI Grant for Synthetic Biology
Distinguished University Professor Eduardo Sontag (ECE, BIOE; affiliate in Mathematics and ChE) and collaborators received a $7.5M award ($1.25M to Northeastern University) entitled “Rules of composition in synthetic biology across scales of complexity: theory and tools.”
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Jul 06, 2022
Protecting Breaches from Side Channel Attacks
ECE Professor Yunsi Fei and Mathematics Associate Professor Aidong Ding were awarded a $300k NSF EAGER grant for “Side Channels Go Deep – Leveraging Deep Learning for Side-channel Analysis and Protection.”
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Jul 06, 2022
Designing Microelectromechanical Tunable Delay Lines
ECE Professor Matteo Rinaldi was awarded a patent for “Microelectromechanical tunable delay line circuit.”
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Jul 01, 2022
Fu Elected Member of Academia Europaea
ECE/Khoury Professor Yun Raymond Fu was elected to be a Member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe).
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Jul 01, 2022
Ramezani Selected for JPL Faculty Fellowship Research Program
ECE Assistant Professor Alireza Ramezani was selected as a participant in the Faculty Fellowship Research Program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California.
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Jun 28, 2022
Improving Acoustic Wireless Communication
ECE Professor Tommaso Melodia and ECE Research Assistant Professor Emrecan Demirors were awarded a patent for designing a “method and apparatus for wireless communications.”
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Jun 28, 2022
Ultrasensitive, Miniaturized, and Inexpensive Ion Detection Device
MIE Professor Yung Joon Jung and affiliated Physics Associate Professor Swastik Kar were awarded a patent for “Ion and radiation detection devices based on carbon nanomaterials and two-dimensional nanomaterials.”
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Jun 28, 2022
Powering Reconfigurable Implantable Medical Devices
ECE William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia received a patent for creating a “Reconfigurable implantable medical system for ultrasonic power control and telemetry.” Abstract Source: USPTO A reconfigurable implantable system for ultrasonic power control and telemetry includes a charging device that includes an ultrasonic transducer to transmit and receive ultrasonic signals transmitted through a biological […]