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Sep 08, 2022
Targeting the Shared Mid-Band Spectrum for 5G
ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury and Associate Research Scientist Debashri Roy, in collaboration with the University of Oklahoma, were awarded a $750K NSF grant for “MEDUSA: Mid-band Environmental Sensing Capability for Detecting Incumbents during Spectrum Sharing.” The objective of the project is to detect the presence of static/mobile radar and anomalous transmissions within concurrent and comparatively higher power 5G and 4G-LTE signals through machine learning and receiver antenna design.
Sep 08, 2022
Outstanding Paper Award at IEEE HPEC Conference
Computer engineering student Baolin Li, PhD’24, and ECE Associate Professor Devesh Tiwari received an outstanding paper award (top ~5%) from the IEEE HPEC conference for their paper “Benchmarking Resource Usage for Efficient Distributed Deep Learning.” Li was also nominated as one of four students selected by Northeastern University for the Google PhD Fellowship.

Aug 25, 2022
Addressing Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Issues
MIE Associate Professor Jacqueline Griffin, ECE Professor David Kaeli, MIE Professor Ozlem Ergun, and affiliate faculty members Stacy Marsella and Casper Harteveld were awarded a $750k NSF grant for “Designing an Improved Information Infrastructure for Better Decision Making in Pharmaceutical Supply Chains.”

Aug 18, 2022
Lin Wins U.S. DOT Inclusive Design Challenge Stage II
ECE Assistant Professor Xue “Shelley” Lin, together with Prof. Nicholas Giudice and Prof. Richard Corey at U Maine, and Prof. Stacy Doore at Colby College, became a Finalist Awardee and […]

Aug 18, 2022
Ultra-low Power Distributed Beamforming to Harvest Indoor RF Energy
ECE Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava was awarded a $400K NSF grant for “High Efficiency Distributed Beamforming RF Energy Transfer using a Closed-loop Energy Receiver.”

Aug 18, 2022
Designing Computer Models for Multi-Area Power Grids That Isolate Divergence Anomalies
ECE Professor Ali Abur was awarded a patent for “Computer-implemented methods and systems for avoiding divergence in multi-area power grid state estimation.”

Aug 17, 2022
Predicting Seizures in Epilepsy Patients
ECE Professor Tommaso Melodia and Principal Research Scientist Pedram Johari, in collaboration with Joseph Neimat from the University of Louisville, Jorge Jimenez from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Doug Pham from Microchip Technology Inc., received a $550K NSF Partnerships for Innovation – Research Partnerships (PFI-RP) grant for “Smart Seizure Prediction System based on AI-enabled Implantable Sensor Networks.”

Aug 17, 2022
New Faculty Spotlight: Derya Aksaray
Derya Aksaray joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in August 2022 as an Assistant Professor.