News
Feb 17, 2026
2026 Goldwater Scholarship Nominees
Megan Farrington, E’27, electrical engineering and physics, and Maren Ritterbuck, E’27, bioengineering and biochemistry were nominated for the 2026 Barry Goldwater Scholarship—a highly competitive, merit-based award for outstanding students in mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering who are interested in pursuing careers in research.
Feb 17, 2026
Patent for Faster and More Efficient AI Applications on Smartphones
ECE Professor Yanzhi Wang was awarded a patent for “Computer-implemented methods and systems for DNN weight pruning for real-time execution on mobile devices.”
Feb 13, 2026
Patent for a Scalable and Sustainable Approach to High Performance Computing
ECE Associate Professor Cristian Cassella was awarded a patent for developing a “Low power Ising system.”
Feb 13, 2026
Shrivastava and Zheng Receive MassCEC Funding for Climate Tech Advancement
ECE Associate Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava’s start-up, Think Analog, Inc., and MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng were each awarded $75,000 as part of a $4.5 million Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) investment for 23 clean energy and climate technology projects.
Feb 03, 2026
Optimizing Training Signals for Millimeter Wave Power Amplifier Modeling
ECE Professor Miriam Leeser’s research on “Training Signal Optimization for Behavioral Modeling and Digital Predistortion of RF Power Amplifiers” was published in IEEE Microwave Magazine.
Feb 03, 2026
Tiwari Receives 2025 IEEE TCPP Outstanding Service Award
ECE Associate Professor Devesh Tiwari was awarded the 2025 IEEE Technical Community on Parallel Processing (TCPP) Outstanding Service and Contributions Award for “innovative and committed leadership, impactful research contributions, and community building.”
Jan 29, 2026
Faculty and Staff Awards 2026
Faculty and staff were recognized at the 28th Annual College of Engineering Faculty and Staff Awards for their exceptional service and dedication in support of students, the COE community, and the university during the 2025-2026 academic year.
Jan 26, 2026
Innovation Across the Sea: London’s New INS Hub
Northeastern’s Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems opens a new hub in London after its success in Boston and Burlington. Their projects focus on optimizing wireless communications, with a focus on AI.