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Sep 20, 2022
Spring 2022 Center for Research Innovation Spark Fund Awardees
Bouve/ChE University Distinguished Professor Mansoor Amiji, ChE Assistant Professor Sara Hashmi, ECE Professor Purnima Ratilal-Makris, and MIE Assistant Professor Mohsen Moghaddam are recipients of the Spring 2022 Spark Fund Awards from Northeastern’s Center for Research Innovation.
Sep 19, 2022
Best Scientific Paper Award at the ICPR 2022
The paper entitled “InfAnFace: Bridging the Infant-Adult Domain Gap in Facial Landmark Estimation in the Wild,” authored by ECE Assistant Professor Sarah Ostadabbas and her team at the Augmented Cognition Lab, received the Best Scientific Paper Award in the Biomedical Track at the 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2022).
Sep 16, 2022
Designing the Next Generation of AI-Driven Dynamic Spectrum Access Systems
ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia, in collaboration with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (lead) and Florida International University, was awarded a $750K NSF grant for “SWIFT: AI-based Sensing for Improved Resiliency via Spectral Adaptation with Lifelong Learning.” The project will demonstrate a system for spectral situational awareness through radio frequency machine learning.
Sep 15, 2022
Abowd Receives UbiComp 10-year Impact Award
Gregory Abowd, dean of the College of Engineering and professor of ECE, was awarded the UbiComp 10-year Impact Award for his paper “What Next, Ubicomp?: Celebrating an Intellectual Disappearing Act.” The UbiComp conference series is the premiere venue for researchers and practitioners interested in all aspects of ubiquitous and pervasive computing.
Sep 12, 2022
Designing Novel Storage System for Better Management of Data from Scientific Instruments
ECE Associate Professor Devesh Tiwari is part of a multi-university and national lab team that received a $2.7 million DOE award for “End‐to‐end Object‐focused Software‐defined Data Management for Science.” The research will design a software framework that would make it easier for domain scientists using data storage systems to glean insights from massive scientific datasets.
Sep 09, 2022
Designing Self-Adaptive Next Generation RF Receivers for Heavily Crowded Electromagnetic Environments
ECE Associate Professor Marvin Onabajo, Professor Miriam Leeser, and Assistant Professor Cristian Cassella were awarded a $750K NSF grant for “Advancing Coexistence through a Cross-Layer Design Platform with an Adaptive Frequency-Selective Radio Front-End and Digital Algorithms.” The research lays the groundwork for enhanced radio frequency communication systems that make use of real-time tuning to adapt to different spectrum environments for higher interference tolerance, and to provide design techniques and tools that improve the coexistence of wireless devices.
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.