News
Oct 25, 2023
Students Nominated for Prestigious Marshall and Rhodes Scholarships
Benjamin Lanava, E’24, environmental engineering, and Siddharth Simon, E’24, computer engineering/computer science, were nominated by Northeastern for the Marshall Scholarship and Lanava also for the Rhodes Scholarship. Both prestigious awards support study in the UK for those distinguished by their academic accomplishments, records of leadership, and drive to serve.
Oct 25, 2023
Crickets May Be the Cause of Havana Syndrome
ECE/Khoury Professor Kevin Fu believes the real cause of the mysterious Havana syndrome is caused by the chirps of the short-tailed West Indies cricket.
Oct 24, 2023
New Spinout Mirlo Systems Is Driving the Edge Computing Revolution
ECE Professor Edmund Yeh’s spinout company Mirlo Systems is a cutting-edge video delivery service that uses edge computing to improve speed and quality. He received a Spark Fund award from Northeastern’s Center for Research Innovation for this work.
Oct 24, 2023
Patent for Improving RF Resonator Technology
ECE Associate Professor Cristian Casella and Xuanyi Zhao, PhD’23, electrical engineering, were awarded a patent for “Two dimensional rod resonator for RF filtering.”
Oct 18, 2023
Testing Extremes of Human Motor Control To Advance Robotics
Dagmar Sternad, University Distinguished Professor of biology, physics, and ECE, and her research group at Northeastern’s Action Lab, including mechanical engineering PhD student Mahdiar Edraki, are looking at extreme human movement to understand how humans manipulate complex objects, like whips.
Oct 16, 2023
DARPA Young Faculty Award To Develop Ultra-Low Power Machine-Learning Hardware
ECE Associate Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava was awarded a Young Faculty Award from DARPA for up to $1 million for “Nano-Watt Power Machine-Learning Hardware Using Precision Analog Computing.”
Oct 12, 2023
Abowd Receives 10-Year UbiComp Impact Award
Gregory D. Abowd, dean of the College of Engineering and professor of ECE, was a recipient of the UbiComp 2023 10-Year Impact Award for his paper, “Instant Inkjet Circuits: Lab-based Inkjet Printing to Support Rapid Prototyping of UbiComp Devices,” that was published in 2013. The award is given to papers published at the conference 10 years ago that have been deemed the most impactful over time.
Oct 09, 2023
Ostadabbas Receives Sony Faculty Innovation Award
ECE Associate Professor Sarah Ostadabbas received the Sony Faculty Innovation Award for her project titled “Live Stream Temporally Embedded 3D Human Body Pose and Shape Estimation.” She is the first at Northeastern to receive this prestigious award.