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Aug 31, 2020
The Northeastern University SMART Center Deploys an Evatec CLUSTERLINE® 200 for Manufacturing High Performance Piezoelectric Micro and Nano Systems
The Northeastern University SMART Center added the Evatec’s CLUSTERLINE® 200 to its nanofabrication capability. This is the first Evatec’s CLUSTERLINE® 200 tool deployed in an academic institution in the United States providing the SMART Center with a unique cutting-edge capability to perform research, development and pilot manufacturing of high-performance piezoelectric micro and nano systems.
Aug 28, 2020
Best Paper Award at IEEE HPEC 2020
Computer engineering PhD student Mahsa Bayati (PhD’20), ECE Professor Miriam Leeser, Associate Professor Ningfang Mi were awarded the Outstanding Student Paper Award for their paper “Exploiting GPU Direct Access to Non-Volatile Memory to Accelerate Big Data Processing” at the 2020 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC).
Aug 28, 2020
Northeastern Receives NSF-JST Planning Grant in Support of Super-Aging Societies
Northeastern researchers comprised of Taskin Padir (ECE), Deniz Erdogmus (ECE), Misha Pavel (Khoury, BCHS), and Carmen Sceppa (BCHS) received a planning grant from the NSF-JST Smart and Connected Communities program to focus on team-building, user-centered design ideation, and community participation activities to develop a tight and sustainable collaboration among U.S.-Japan researchers
Aug 24, 2020
ECE Team won First Place in ISLPED 2020 Design Contest
ECE Assistant Professors Yanzhi Wang and Xue Lin and their graduate students were part of a collaborative Northeastern University and College of William and Mary team that won first place at the design contest at ISLPED 2020 for their demonstration titled, “CoCoPIE: A Framework of Compression-Compilation Co-design Towards Ultra-High Energy Efficiency and Real Time DNN Inference on Mobile Devices.”
Aug 24, 2020
Wang organized the ROAD4NN workshop at DAC 2020
Yanzhi Wang, assistant professor at ECE, organized the ROAD4NN workshop: International Workshop on Research Open Automatic Design for Neural Networks, at DAC 2020. Over 400 virtual attendees registered for the workshop.
Aug 21, 2020
Yeh Leads New Initiative to Build Advanced Data Ecosystems for High Energy Physics and Genomics
ECE Professor Edmund Yeh is leading an $875K two-year NSF grant multi-university research initiative for “CC* Integration-Large: N-DISE: NDN for Data Intensive Science Experiments” in collaboration with California Institute of Technology, the University of California at Los Angeles, and Tennessee Technological University.
Aug 06, 2020
ECE PhD Student Vageeswar Rajaram Receives Best Paper Award at IEEE IFCS-ISAF
Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD student Vageeswar Rajaram receives best paper award at IEEE IFCS-ISAF 2020 Virtual Conference for his paper “A Zero Standby Power MEMS Switch-based Infrared Sensor with Frequency Output”.
Aug 04, 2020
Patent for Improved Receiver Circuit that Recovers the Transmitted Signal with Reduced Power Consumption
ECE Professor Yong Bin Kim was awarded a patent for designing a “receiver circuit”.