News
Aug 13, 2021
Simplifying Large-Scale Complex Networks
ECE Assistant Professor Milad Siami was awarded a $300K NSF grant for “Sparse Sensing, Actuation, and Communication in Complex Networks.”
Aug 11, 2021
ECE PhD Student Wins 2021 VNN-COMP Award
Kaidi Xu, PhD’21, computer engineering, from Assistant Professor Xue “Shelley” Lin’s lab, got the Top Highest Score Award and Category Winner during the 2nd International Verification of Neural Networks Competition (VNN-COMP’21) at the 33rd International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification. The work was done in collaboration with researchers from CMU, Columbia University, and UCLA.
Aug 10, 2021
Spin Out Company from ECE Lab Receives NSF SBIR Phase I Funding
ECE Assistant Professor Yanzhi Wang is co-founder of a startup company CoCoPIE, LLC that was awarded a $250K Small Business Innovation Research Phase I NSF grant for “Enabling Real-Time AI on End Devices through Compression-Compilation Co-Design.”
Aug 10, 2021
Addressing Future Distribution Systems Challenges
ECE Professor Ali Abur was awarded a $380K NSF grant for designing “A Comprehensive Approach to Monitoring Active Distribution Systems.”
Aug 06, 2021
Northeastern Receives Rare Designation by FCC as Spectrum Innovation Zone
Northeastern University has been given the rare designation by the FCC as a Spectrum Innovation Zone, which will allow for opportunities to build the next generation of wireless technology. It is the fourth such hub in the U.S. and the first to enable experimentation for wireless communications and sensing technologies above 100 gigahertz, including a frequency band that is crucial for the development of 6G technologies.
Aug 05, 2021
Developing Ultra-Low Power Circuits to Prevent Denial of Sleep IoT Attacks
ECE Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava received a $356K NSF grant for “Energy and Activity Analysis-based On-chip Methods for Mitigating Denial-of-Sleep Attacks in Ultra-low Power IoT Devices.”
Aug 05, 2021
Cutting-Edge Transcranial Magnetic Stimulator
BioE/ECE Affiliated Faculty Eugene Tunik, ECE Professor Deniz Erdogmus, ECE Research Professor Dana Brooks, and COS Professor Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli were awarded a $400K NSF MRI grant for the “Acquisition of a controllable pulse transcranial magnetic stimulator with robotic positioning and integrated EEG / EMG for engineering and neuroscience research and education.”
Aug 03, 2021
2021 Acorn Innovation Awards
ECE Research Assistant Professor Yousof Naderi, Professor Kaushik Chowdhury, Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava, and ChE Assistant Professor Benjamin Woolston received Acorn Innovation Fund Awards which help in the commercialization of scientific breakthroughs in Massachusetts.