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Aug 09, 2024
Exploring the Adverse Effects of Ticketmaster’s Monopoly
Khoury/ECE Associate Professor Wil Robertson explains how the cyberattack by bots that Ticketmaster suffered from during the sale of tickets for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour reflects the company’s monopolistic position within the concert industry.
Aug 08, 2024
Patent for Ultra-Low Power Sensor for Remote Monitoring
ECE Professor Matteo Rinaldi and Associate Research Professor Zhenyun Qian were awarded a patent for “Sensor and method using bi-stable digitizing micromechanical switches for analog measurement of input signals.”
Aug 02, 2024
Revolutionizing Quantum Technology With Metamaterial-based Detectors
ECE Assistant Professor Marco Colangelo, Professor Matteo Rinaldi, and Assistant Professor Benyamin Davaji were awarded a $330,000 NSF grant for “Metamaterial-Enabled Superconducting Nanowire Detectors for High Temperature Operation.”
Aug 01, 2024
Revolutionizing Computing With Meta-ONNs
MIE/ECE Professor Yongmin Liu was awarded a $467,930 NSF grant for “Design and Realization of Multiplexed Meta-Optical Neural Networks.” He will design and implement a novel class of metasurface-based ONNs, which can operate at optical frequencies and realize diverse functions.
Aug 01, 2024
$1.6M NSF Award for Creating Inclusive Cities Through Technology
CEE Associate Professor Qi “Ryan” Wang and ECE Associate Professor Yanzhi Wang, in collaboration with the University of Florida and the University of Virginia, received a $1.6 million NSF grant for “Strengthening Elderly Mobility in Urban Landscapes: Towards Age-Inclusive and Equitable Communities.”
Jul 24, 2024
$1.5M NSF Grant To Develop New Photonic Materials
MIE/ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu and ECE Assistant Professor Sunil Mittal, in collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology and Purdue University, are leading a $1.5 million NSF DMREF grant for “Accelerating the Design and Development of Engineered Photonic Materials Based on a Data-Driven Deep Learning Approach.”
Jul 22, 2024
Major Consequences of IT Outage
ECE/Khoury Professor Kevin Fu and ECE Professor and Interim Chair Josep Jornet explain the causes and implications of the Microsoft tech outage that grounded flights from major airlines and limited healthcare and financial services worldwide.
Jul 22, 2024
ECE PhD Receives Best Student Paper Finalist Award at IFAC SYSID 2024
Mohammad Alali, PhD’25, electrical engineering, received the Best Student Paper Finalist Award from the 20th IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID 2024), which was held at Northeastern, for his paper “Kernel-Based Particle Filtering for Scalable Inference in Partially Observed Boolean Dynamical Systems”.