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Nov 18, 2022
COE Researchers Honored at Annual BPLA Invented Here!
The Boston Patent Law Association (BPLA) hosted its annual Invented Here! contest and honored COE inventors who help further innovation not only in the region but worldwide.

Nov 18, 2022
Sontag Receives IFAC Award on Non-Linear Control Systems
University Distinguished Professor Eduardo Sontag, ECE and BioE, received the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Technical Committee Award on Non-Linear Control Systems, which is described as the “highest distinction on nonlinear control systems research”.

Nov 18, 2022
First Place Win at 2022 NASA BIG IDEA Competition
A Northeastern University student team won the prestigious Artemis Award, the top honor at NASA’s 2022 Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-changing (BIG) Idea Challenge for their COBRA: Crater Observing Bio-inspired Rolling Articulator.

Nov 18, 2022
Jornet Receives the 2022 IEEE WTC Outstanding Young Researcher Award
ECE Associate Professor Josep Jornet received the 2022 IEEE WTC Outstanding Young Researcher Award for his pioneering contributions to the field of terahertz communications.

Nov 10, 2022
Meta Award To Quarantine and Vaccinate Silent Data Corruptions
Devesh Tiwari, ECE associate professor, received a 2022 Meta Research Award among five U.S. and international scientists for his proposal to develop a quarantine and vaccination framework to mitigate silent data corruptions in large-scale systems.

Nov 09, 2022
Liu Elected 2023 Fellow Member of Optica
MIE/ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu was elected a 2023 Fellow Member of Optica (formerly OSA). He is being honored specifically for significant contributions to the fundamental and application of nanophotonics, particularly plasmonics and photonic metamaterials.
Nov 08, 2022
Northeastern Robotics Team Wins $1M for Third-place Finish in Global Competition
Team Northeastern won $1 million in third place among 17 finalists from around the globe in the ANA Avatar XPrize robotics competition.

Nov 04, 2022
Patent for Wireless Charging of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
ECE Research Assistant Professor Yousof Naderi and ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury were awarded a patent for “Wireless charging of unmanned aerial vehicles.”