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Aug 27, 2024
Patent for Breakthroughs in Miniature Antenna Technology
ECE Distinguished Professor Nian Sun was awarded a patent for “Mechanically-driven SMR-based MEMS magnetoelectric antennas.”
Aug 22, 2024
Northeastern Co-PI of New NSF Center for Insights Into the Pre-Emergence Phase of Pandemics
ECE Distinguished Professor Nian Sun is co-PI of the new NSF Center for Pandemic Insights, which is led by the University of California-Davis and in partnership with 10 universities. Sun is leading innovative sensing technology, while Associate Teaching Professor Jennifer Love is part of the project team for education, outreach, training, and workforce development.
Aug 21, 2024
Exploring Silevitch’s Northeastern Legacy
For more than 40 years, Michael B. Silevitch, Robert D. Black ECE Distinguished Professor, has had a profound impact at Northeastern as an innovative leader of several groundbreaking initiatives such as SENTRY and ALERT, and as an inspiration to faculty, students, alumni, and members of industry.
Aug 20, 2024
Double Paper Win at ACL 2024
ECE/Khoury Assistant Professor Weiyan Shi received two awards for papers at the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024) annual meeting in Bangkok, Thailand.
Aug 19, 2024
Using Interference Structure To Improve Wireless Communication
ECE/COS Professor Ken Duffy, in collaboration with Boston University and MIT, was awarded a $780,000 NSF grant for “Interferers in Our Midst.” The team will develop methods to improve communication performance in shared, congested, and contested spectrum bands.
Aug 14, 2024
New Faculty Spotlight: Weiyan Shi
Weiyan Shi joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in August 2024 as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in Khoury.
Aug 13, 2024
Revolutionizing Medical Imaging With Micromirror Technology
ECE Assistant Professor Benyamin Davaji, in collaboration with Shahrzad Towfighian from SUNY at Binghamton, was awarded a $550,000 NSF grant for “Merging Electrostatic and Ferroelectric MEMS Actuators To Create Tunable High-Speed Scanners.”
Aug 13, 2024
Patent for Improved Detection of Facial Landmarks
ECE/Khoury Professor Yun Raymond Fu was awarded a patent for “System and method for generating image landmarks.”