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Dec 17, 2019
Detecting Arc Faults in AC Circuits
ECE Professor Bradley Lehman awarded patent for creating a “Method for AC arc fault detection using multidimensional energy points”.
Dec 17, 2019
ECE Receives Best Paper Award at IEEE GLOBECOM
ECE PhD students Kai Li, Ufuk Muncuk, Principal Research Scientist Yousof Naderi, and Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury were awarded the best paper award at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2019 conference for their paper “SoftSense: Collaborative Surface-based Object Sensing and Tracking Using Networked Coils”.
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Dec 03, 2019
Desnoyers and Leeser Awarded $1.55M NSF Grant to Accelerate Innovations in Cloud Technologies
ECE Affiliated Faculty Peter Desnoyers (PI), Khoury College, and ECE Professor Miriam Leeser (co-PI) are the Northeastern University leads of $1.55M five-year NSF grant that is part a $5M total award in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Amherst (lead) and Boston University.
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Dec 03, 2019
Lehman Selected as IEEE Power Electronics Society Fellow
ECE Professor Bradley Lehman was selected as a 2020 Fellow of IEEE Power Electronics Society for his contributions to high quality LED lighting and modeling and control of DC-DC converters.
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Dec 02, 2019
Networking for Big Data: Landmark SC19 Demo Shows High-Performance Delivery of Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Data with NDN
The multi-university (Northeastern, Caltech, and Colorado State) research SANDIE team led by ECE Professor Edmund Yeh has finished a landmark demo at SC19 in Denver.
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Nov 27, 2019
Ioannidis Gives Talk at Networking@Scale
ECE Assistant Professor Stratis Ioannidis gave a talk on “Adaptive Cache Networks with Optimality Guarantees” at Networking@Scale.
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Nov 26, 2019
Nian Sun Named IEEE Fellow
ECE Professor Nian Sun has been named an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to integrated magnetic and magnetoelectric materials and devices.
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Nov 25, 2019
Sun Receives Prestigious Humboldt Research Award
ECE Professor Nian Sun was awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.