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Sep 26, 2022
Restuccia Receives ONR YIP Award for 6G Spectrum Dominance
ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia was awarded an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award for “Polymorphic Wireless Computing for Ultra-Wideband 6G Spectrum Dominance.” The project will lay the foundations of a new paradigm named polymorphic wireless computing for 6G wireless systems.
Sep 23, 2022
Singh Receives IEEEOES 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award
ECE/MIE Professor Hanumant Singh received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society for his work on autonomous underwater vehicles.
Sep 20, 2022
Northeastern in Top 100 Universities With U.S. Utility Patents
For the seventh consecutive year, Northeastern University has appeared in the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) list of Top 100 Universities that were granted U.S. utility patents in 2021, cementing it as a world leader in academia and research.
Sep 20, 2022
Spring 2022 Center for Research Innovation Spark Fund Awardees
Bouve/ChE University Distinguished Professor Mansoor Amiji, ChE Assistant Professor Sara Hashmi, ECE Professor Purnima Ratilal-Makris, and MIE Assistant Professor Mohsen Moghaddam are recipients of the Spring 2022 Spark Fund Awards from Northeastern’s Center for Research Innovation.
Sep 19, 2022
Best Scientific Paper Award at the ICPR 2022
The paper entitled “InfAnFace: Bridging the Infant-Adult Domain Gap in Facial Landmark Estimation in the Wild,” authored by ECE Assistant Professor Sarah Ostadabbas and her team at the Augmented Cognition Lab, received the Best Scientific Paper Award in the Biomedical Track at the 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2022).
Sep 16, 2022
Designing the Next Generation of AI-Driven Dynamic Spectrum Access Systems
ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia, in collaboration with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (lead) and Florida International University, was awarded a $750K NSF grant for “SWIFT: AI-based Sensing for Improved Resiliency via Spectral Adaptation with Lifelong Learning.” The project will demonstrate a system for spectral situational awareness through radio frequency machine learning.
Sep 15, 2022
Abowd Receives UbiComp 10-year Impact Award
Gregory Abowd, dean of the College of Engineering and professor of ECE, was awarded the UbiComp 10-year Impact Award for his paper “What Next, Ubicomp?: Celebrating an Intellectual Disappearing Act.” The UbiComp conference series is the premiere venue for researchers and practitioners interested in all aspects of ubiquitous and pervasive computing.
Sep 12, 2022
Designing Novel Storage System for Better Management of Data from Scientific Instruments
ECE Associate Professor Devesh Tiwari is part of a multi-university and national lab team that received a $2.7 million DOE award for “End‐to‐end Object‐focused Software‐defined Data Management for Science.” The research will design a software framework that would make it easier for domain scientists using data storage systems to glean insights from massive scientific datasets.