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Jun 28, 2022
ECE PhD Wins ACM TODAES Rookie Author of the Year Award
Computer engineering student, Shijin Duan, PhD’25, advised by ECE Assistant Professor Xiaolin Xu, is the recipient of the prestigious ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) Rookie Author of the Year (RAY) Award, for their paper titled “FPGAPRO: A Defense Framework Against Crosstalk-Induced Secret Leakage in FPGA”.
Jun 27, 2022
Best Paper Award in ACM DroneCom 2021, co-located with ACM MobiCom
ECE PhD student Sara Garcia Sanchez, advised by Professor Kaushik Chowdhury, won the best paper award at the 2021 4th International Workshop on Drone Assisted Wireless Communications for 5G and […]
Jun 24, 2022
New Quantum Bit Platform Points to New Direction for Low-Cost, Large-Scale Quantum Computers
A paper, titled “Single electrons on solid neon as a solid-state qubit platform,” published in the journal Nature by Assistant Professor Xufeng Zhang, electrical and computer engineering, who had a key contribution in the quantum microwave measurements, and researchers at Argonne National Lab and other collaborative institutions, demonstrates a fundamentally new quantum bit (qubit) platform.
Jun 14, 2022
Sontag Awarded 2022 Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award
University Distinguished Professor Eduardo Sontag, electrical and computer engineering, jointly appointed in bioengineering, received the 2022 Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award—the highest recognition in control theory and engineering in the United States.
Jun 13, 2022
Imani Awarded $590K NIH Trailblazer Grant for Mathematical Modeling of Microbial Communities
ECE Assistant Professor Mahdi Imani was awarded a $590K NIH Trailblazer R21 grant for New and Early Stage Investigators from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) for “Bayesian Dynamical Modeling of Microbial Communities”.
Jun 09, 2022
Padir Selected as Northeastern’s First Amazon Scholar
ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir was selected as Northeastern University’s first Amazon Scholar and will be bringing his human-centered approach to robotics to the company’s fleet of drivers.
Jun 09, 2022
Creating NME Antennas for Portable Electronic Applications
ECE Professor Nian X. Sun was awarded a patent for “Nanoscale radio frequency magnetoelectric antenna.” Abstract Source: USPTO A nanomechanical magnetoelectric antenna includes a thin film heterostructure that has a […]
Jun 09, 2022
Improving Computer Networks with Distributed Cached Content
ECE Associate Professor Stratis Ioannidis and Professor Edmund Yeh were awarded a patent for designing a “Distributing cached content in a network.” Abstract Source: USPTO The invention relates to a […]