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Jun 05, 2023
Who Has the Best Self-driving Car? Northeastern Robotics Team Captures First Place in Premier Competition
A robotics team led by ECE Assistant Professor Milad Siami won the Self-Driving Car Competition at the American Control Conference (ACC) 2023.
Jun 02, 2023
Best Student Paper Award at ACC 2023
Mohammad Alali, PhD’26, electrical engineering, received the Best Student Paper Award Finalist from the 2023 American Control Conference (ACC 2023) for his paper “Reinforcement Learning Data-Acquiring for Causal Inference of Regulatory Networks,” which was one of the five papers selected for this award.
Jun 01, 2023
Fu Appointed to PCAST Working Group
ECE/Khoury Professor Kevin Fu was appointed to the White House President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) Working Group to identify research areas and possible solutions, as well as, advance current approaches to bolstering cyber-physical resilience.
Jun 01, 2023
Fu Receives AAMI & MedCrypt Cybersecurity Visionary Award
ECE/Khoury Professor Kevin Fu received the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) & MedCrypt Cybersecurity Visionary Award for his groundbreaking research that demonstrated that implantable devices like pacemakers can be vulnerable to hackers and his efforts to mitigate these risks.
May 31, 2023
CNERT Workshop Best Paper Award
Zhaoyang Han, PhD’24, computer engineering, who is advised by ECE Professor Miriam Leeser, won the Computer and Networking Experimental Research using Testbeds (CNERT) Workshop Best Paper Award for their paper on “A Framework To Enable Runtime Programmable P4-enabled FPGAs in the Open Cloud Testbed” at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications.
May 24, 2023
Kostas Research Institute Receives $13M U.S. Army Contract for Wireless Research
The Kostas Research Institute (KRI) at Northeastern University has been awarded $13 million by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory for foundational research into Cognitive Distributed Sensing in Congested Radio Frequency Environments. KRI and five partner institutions will conduct innovative research to enable technologies in distributed machine learning, signal processing algorithms, and computational, sensing, and communication hardware infrastructure for distributed sensing and communication.
May 18, 2023
Best Paper Award at IFCS-EFTF 2023
Nicolas Casilli, E’21, MS’21, PhD’26, electrical engineering, was awarded the best paper award at the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium and the European Frequency and Time Forum (IEEE IFCS-EFTF 2023) for his paper “An Ising Tag With a LiNbO3 Resonator for Temperature Threshold Sensing.”
May 16, 2023
Patent for Enhancing Face Recognition With Frontal Face Synthesis
ECE/Khoury Professor Yun Raymond Fu was awarded a patent for “Frontal face synthesis from low-resolution images.”