News
Feb 01, 2022
Creating a Wireless Network Operating System
ECE William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia was awarded a patent for creating a “Distributed wireless network operating system.”
Feb 01, 2022
Transmitting Implantable Medical Device Data Ultrasonically
ECE William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia was awarded a patent for designing an “Ultrasonic multiplexing network for implantable medical devices.”
Feb 01, 2022
Creating Ultra-Low Power Consumption
ECE Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava was awarded a patent for “High stability gain structure and filter realization with less than 50 ppm/° c. temperature variation with ultra-low power consumption using switched-capacitor and sub-threshold biasing.”
Jan 27, 2022
Fall 2021 Spark Fund Awardees
BioE Professor Jeff Ruberti, ECE Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava, ChE Assistant Professor Benjamin Woolston, and MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng are recipients of Spark Fund Awards, which help Northeastern researchers bridge the gap between promising lab results and demonstrating a commercially viable prototype.
Jan 25, 2022
Creating a More Comfortable Fitness Tracker
ECE Associate Professor Canek Fuentes-Hernandez is creating a thin, flexible fitness tracker that doesn’t consume a lot of power.
Jan 24, 2022
Do 5G Frequency Bands Interfere with Older Plane Altimeters?
William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia explains how new 5G network radio frequencies might interfere with older plane altimeters.
Jan 24, 2022
Checking to Determine if a Mask is Counterfeit
ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir explains how to help determine if N95 and KN95 masks are counterfeit by checking for certain codes and expiration dates.
Jan 24, 2022
Fu Receives Acorn Innovation Fund Award
ECE/Khoury Professor Yun Raymond Fu received an Acorn Innovation Fund Award for his project “Pathfind: AI Driven Remote Motion Tracking by Light-Weight Deep Learning.”