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Aug 02, 2021
Treating Neurodiseases with Implantable Ultrasound Stimulation
ECE Chair and Professor Srinivas Tadigadapa, in collaboration with Sri-Rajasekhar Kothapalli from Penn State University, was awarded a $250K NSF grant to create “An implantable intracranial ultrasound stimulation for treating neurodiseases.”
Jul 30, 2021
Northeastern Part of New NSF Artificial Intelligence Research Institute
Northeastern is part of a team led by the Ohio State University that was awarded $20 million over five years for the NSF AI Institute for Future Edge Networks and Distributed Intelligence (AI-EDGE). Professor Kaushik Chowdhury, electrical and computer engineering (ECE), is the Northeastern lead, with co-PIs ECE Professor Tommaso Melodia and ECE Associate Professor Stratis Ioannidis responsible for $1.8 million of the award.
Jul 28, 2021
Advancing Remote Robotic Technology
MIE Assistant Professor Peter Whitney has been working to design lightweight nimble robotic arms that could be capable of remote surgery or other situations where safety might be a factor. Nimble robotic arms that perform delicate surgery may be one step closer to reality Main photo: Robotics researchers at Northeastern are advancing a technology to […]
Jul 26, 2021
DiMarzio Selected as SPIE Senior Member
ECE Associate Professor Charles DiMarzio was selected by the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) as a 2021 Senior Member.
Jul 20, 2021
RFDataFactory: Categorized and Searchable Research Datasets
ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury (PI), William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor Tommaso Melodia (co-PI), and Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia (co-PI) are leading a $1.8M NSF grant, in collaboration with Ashutosh Sabharwal from Rice University, for “RFDataFactory: Principled Dataset Generation, Sharing and Maintenance Tools for the Wireless Community.” RFDataFactory aims to make available categorized datasets suitable for research related to machine learning in 5G and beyond networks, and advance fundamental understanding and design tools for accessing, creating, sharing and storing wireless datasets.
Jul 20, 2021
ECE PhD Student Wins Best Student Paper Award at EFTF-IFCS 2021
ECE student Hussein M. E. Hussein, PhD’24, was awarded the 2021 Joint Conference of European Frequency and Time Forum & the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium (EFTF-IFCS) Best Student Paper Award for Paper “Parametric Acoustic-Based Passive Transponders for Ultra-Sensitive Temperature and Temperature-Threshold Sensing.”
Jul 20, 2021
Investigating the Dynamics of Biochemical Systems
University Distinguished Professor Eduardo Sontag, ECE/BioE, is the PI of a $305K NSF grant for designing “New Techniques for Analyzing the Long-term Behavior of Intracellular Networks.” The project aims to develop an approach to the computer-aided analysis of biochemical networks and is based on research done in the Sontag Lab by Senior Research Scientist Muhammad Ali Al-Radhawi.
Jul 19, 2021
Yeh Named Inaugural Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
ECE Professor Edmund Yeh has been named the inaugural Area Editor in Networking and Computation for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. The IEEE Transactions on Information Theory is a leading journal that publishes theoretical and experimental papers concerned with the transmission, processing, and utilization of information.