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Jul 14, 2021
Automatically Detecting Computer Breaches in the Network
Khoury/ECE Professor Engin Kirda, in collaboration with Gianluca Stringhini from the Boston University, will be working on a $500K NSF grant for “Flanker: Automatically Detecting Lateral Movement in Organizations Using Heterogeneous Data and Graph Representation Learning.”
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Jul 13, 2021
HARMONIA: Improved Data Center Resource Management
ECE Assistant Professor Devesh Tiwari, in collaboration with Mississippi State University, is leading a $500K NSF grant for creating “HARMONIA: New Methods for Colocating Multiple QoS-Sensitive Jobs.”
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Jul 13, 2021
Pioneering a Data-Centric Approach to Distributed Machine Learning
ECE Associate Professor Stratis Ioannidis and ECE Professor Edmund Yeh, in collaboration with ECE Professor Carlee Joe-Wong from Carnegie Mellon University, have been awarded a $1M grant from the NSF to pioneer a data-centric approach to distributed machine learning.
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Jul 09, 2021
Investigating Feedback Systems in Nature and Engineering
University Distinguished Professor Eduardo Sontag, electrical and computer engineering (ECE), jointly appointed in bioengineering, and affiliate faculty in chemical engineering and mathematics, was awarded a $750K grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, titled “Network Motifs and Responses of Nonlinear Systems.”
Jul 08, 2021
Announcing New Engineering Academic Programs
The College of Engineering at Northeastern University announces several new academic programs at the graduate and undergraduate levels, including innovative combined majors, to meet industry trends and provide program flexibility for students. Graduate MS in Advanced and Intelligent Manufacturing – meets the growing demand for engineers, researchers, and scientists trained in advanced manufacturing and Industry […]
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Jul 07, 2021
Tracking Potential Outbreaks Through Wastewater
ECE Professor Nian Sun and MIE Professor Hongwei Sun are part of a team, led by Professor Sheree Pagsuyoin of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, which was awarded $660K in pledged funding as one of five third-place winners of the Trinity Awards, for their project, “Disease Surveillance with Multi-modal Sensor Network & Data Analytics”.
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Jul 06, 2021
Creating a Mass-Producible Ising Machine for Quantum-like Computing and Optimization at Room Temperature
ECE Assistant Professor Cristian Cassella, in collaboration with Prof. Philip Feng from the University of Florida, has been awarded a $500K NSF grant on “Massive Scale Computing and Optimization through On-chip ParameTric Ising MAchines (OPTIMA)”.
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Jul 02, 2021
Team Led by Sznaier Awarded $7.5M by DoD for Control and Learning Enabled Verifiably Robust AI
Mario Sznaier, Dennis Picard Trustee Professor, electrical and computer engineering (ECE), is leading a multi-university team that was awarded a $7.5 million, five-year grant from the Department of Defense (DoD).