News
Jul 17, 2025
Fall 2025 AJC Merit Research Scholars
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Northeastern’s AJC Merit Research Scholarship, which will fund a co-op in the laboratory of a Northeastern University STEM faculty member.
Jul 15, 2025
Sharing Radio Waves For Better Connections
Assistant Research Professor Michael Polese, William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia, and WIoT Research Scientist Paolo Testolina were awarded a $759,422 NSF grant for “Sharing Spectrum, Services, and Infrastructure in Spectrum Era 4.”
Jul 14, 2025
AI-Based Sensor Fusion Unveils Auroral Ionosphere Dynamics
ECE Associate Professor Pau Closas, in collaboration with Joshua Semeter from Boston University (PI), was awarded a $1,153,603 NSF grant for “Unveiling Hidden Dynamics of the Auroral Ionosphere Using AI-based Sensor Fusion.”
Jul 14, 2025
ECE PhD Receives ACC 2025 Best Paper Finalist Award
Seyed Hamid Hosseini, PhD’26, electrical engineering, working under the supervision of Assistant Professor Mahdi Imani, received a Best Paper Finalist Award at the 2025 American Control Conference (ACC 2025) for his paper titled “Deep Reinforcement Learning for Intervention of Partially Observable Regulatory Networks.”
Jul 01, 2025
Shrivastava Receives DARPA Director’s Fellowship
ECE Associate Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava has been awarded the highly selective DARPA Director’s Fellowship Award.
Jul 01, 2025
Xu Honored with DAC Under-40 Innovators Award
ECE Assistant Professor Xiaolin Xu was named a recipient of the 2025 IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) Under-40 Innovators Award.
Jun 16, 2025
Mars Rover Team Takes Third at International Competition
A Northeastern University student team was a finalist in the University Rover Challenge of The Mars Society, where they placed in the top three at the competition. They competed in Utah with 39 teams from around the world against schools like the University of Michigan, Cornell, as well as teams from Japan, Bangladesh, Turkey, and more.
Jun 04, 2025
Patent for Designing and Conducting Virtual Reality Experiments
ECE Affiliated Faculty Eugene Tunik and Bouvé/ECE Assistant Professor Mathew Yarossi were awarded a patent for “Computer-implemented methods and systems for designing and conducting virtual reality experiments.”