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Jul 18, 2022
Creating Defenses Against Multi-Tenant ML Cloud-FPGA Vulnerabilities
ECE Assistant Professor Xiaolin Xu, in collaboration with Arizona State University, was awarded a $500K NSF grant to design a “Secure and Robust Machine Learning in Multi-Tenant Cloud FPGA.”
Jul 11, 2022
Jornet Receives Best Paper Award at IEEE WoWMOM Workshop on 6G-Non Terrestrial Networks
ECE Associate Professor Josep Jornet received the Best Paper Award at the Second IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on 6G Non-terrestrial Networks, for the work titled “Joint Terahertz Communication and Atmospheric Sensing in Low Earth Orbit Satellite Networks: Physical Layer Design”, with electrical engineering PhD students Sergi Aliaga and Ali Al Qaraghuli.
Jul 08, 2022
New Faculty Spotlight: Mauricio Santillana
Mauricio Santillana joins the Electrical & Computer Engineering department in April 2022 as a Professor with a joint appointment in Physics.
Jul 07, 2022
Rethinking Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Optimization for the Internet of Things
ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia and Associate Professor Marvin Onabajo were awarded a $600K NSF grant for “Self-Adaptive Interference-Avoiding Wireless Receiver Hardware through Real-Time Learning-Based Automatic Optimization of Power-Efficient Integrated Circuits.”
Jul 07, 2022
ECE PhD Students Win PETRA Best Student Paper Award
ECE PhD student Kyle Lockwood and coauthors received the best student paper award at PETRA 2022 (Corfu, Greece), with their paper titled “Leveraging Submovements for Prediction and Trajectory Planning for Human-Robot Handover”.
Jul 07, 2022
Tiwari Receives PC Chair Award
ECE Associate Professor Devesh Tiwari served as the Program Chair of the 31st ACM HPDC’23 conference, which is one of the top-tier, highly-selective HPC conferences. The HPDC Steering Committee recognized Tiwari with the “PC Chair Award” for building this year’s strong & innovative program and inducted him to the HPDC steering committee.
Jul 07, 2022
Sontag Receives MURI Grant for Synthetic Biology
Distinguished University Professor Eduardo Sontag (ECE, BIOE; affiliate in Mathematics and ChE) and collaborators received a $7.5M award ($1.25M to Northeastern University) entitled “Rules of composition in synthetic biology across scales of complexity: theory and tools.”
Jul 06, 2022
Protecting Breaches from Side Channel Attacks
ECE Professor Yunsi Fei and Mathematics Associate Professor Aidong Ding were awarded a $300k NSF EAGER grant for “Side Channels Go Deep – Leveraging Deep Learning for Side-channel Analysis and Protection.”