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Feb 25, 2021
Improving Flood Monitoring Methods
ECE Assistant Professor Pau Closas, Professor Deniz Erdogmus, CEE Professor Edward Beighley, and ECE Postdoc Tales Imbiriba were awarded a $98K grant from the National Geographic Society’s Committee for Research and Exploration for “Spaceborne Multispectral Image Fusion for Water Mapping and Flood Management”.
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Feb 22, 2021
Taking Stereotypes out of Facial Recognition Software
PhD computer engineering student Zaid Khan, PhD’24, and ECE/Khoury Professor Raymond Fu are working to remove racial bias out of facial recognition programs.
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Feb 18, 2021
Celebrate National Engineers Week 2021
Join the College of Engineering February 21-27, 2021 for a variety of fun, informative, and inspirational activities and events to showcase the many ways that engineers are “Imagining Tomorrow” and celebrate the importance of the engineering profession to society and the world.
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Feb 17, 2021
Subharmonic Tag for Wireless Sensing
ECE PhD student Hussein Hussein, Professor Matteo Rinaldi, Associate Professor Marvin Onabajo, and Assistant Professor Cristian Cassella had their research on “A chip-less and battery-less subharmonic tag for wireless sensing with parametrically enhanced sensitivity and dynamic range” published in Scientific Reports from the Nature group.
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Feb 12, 2021
Amirabadi Received NSF CAREER Award to Improve Renewable Energy Systems
ECE Assistant Professor Mahshid Amirabadi received a $400K NSF CAREER Award for “Universal SiC-Based Power Converters for Renewable Energy Systems.”
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Feb 11, 2021
Measuring Electromagnetic Activity of the Brain
ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury was awarded a patent for “Sensor system and process for measuring electric activity of the brain, including electric field encephalography”.
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Feb 11, 2021
Vincent Harris Named Senior Member of The National Academy of Inventors
University Distinguished and William Lincoln Smith Professor Vincent Harris of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University has been named a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors.
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Feb 09, 2021
Mosallaei’s Research Featured on Cover of Advanced Theory and Simulations
ECE Professor Hossein Mosallaei’s research on “Machine Learning: TCO‐Based Active Dielectric Metasurfaces Design by Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks” was featured on the cover of Advanced Theory and Simulations.