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Sep 10, 2021
Creating a Human Avatar in Remote Locations
A group of Northeastern University students led by MIE Assistant Professor Peter Whitney, has made it to the semifinals of the global Avatar XPrize competition which aims to create an avatar system that can transport human presence to a remote location in real-time.
Sep 07, 2021
Yeh Pioneers Application of Information Theory to Mechanism Design in Microeconomics
ECE Professor Edmund Yeh and Jinkun Zhang, PhD’22, in collaboration with Dirk Bergemann, Douglass and Marion Campbell Professor of Economics at Yale University, has published the paper titled “Nonlinear Pricing […]
Sep 02, 2021
$1.5M NSF Award for Real-Time Mobile Air Quality Monitoring and Intervention
CEE Assistant Professor Qi Ryan Wang is leading a $1.5M NSF grant, in collaboration with ECE Assistant Professor Yanzhi Wang, CEE/MES Assistant Professor Amy Mueller, CAMD Associate Professor Brooke Foucault Welles, and Adrienne Katner from the LA State University Health Science Center, to work on “Toxic-Free Footprints to Improve Community Health against Respiratory Hazards.”
Aug 24, 2021
Using MU-MIMO Controls to Improve Transmission to MAS Edge Servers
ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia, in collaboration with Marco Levorato from the University of California-Irvine, was awarded a $415K NSF grant for “Reliable Task Offloading in Mobile Autonomous Systems Through Semantic MU-MIMO Control.”
Aug 23, 2021
Advancing the Design of Nanoscale Photonic Devices
MIE/ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu was awarded a $400K NSF grant for “Non-Hermitian and Topological Plasmonic Devices for Light Manipulation at the Nanoscale.”
Aug 20, 2021
NU Team PARIS Wins in Phase 1 of American-Made E-ROBOT Prize
A Northeastern faculty and student team was awarded a $200K prize as a finalist for Phase 1 of the U.S. Department of Energy’s American-Made Challenges E-ROBOT Prize. In Phase 2, up to four teams (from the 10 finalists) will receive a $500K award. The team’s submission proposed development of a Precise Air-sealing Robot for Inaccessible Spaces (PARIS). The Northeastern team is advised by ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir, CEE Assistant Professor Michael Kane, and ECE Distinguished Professor Carey Rappaport.
Aug 18, 2021
Keeping Supercomputers Running Effectively
ECE Assistant Professor Devesh Tiwari has developed methods to find and predict hardware failures and optimize the data storage in the world’s fastest supercomputers.
Aug 18, 2021
New Faculty Spotlight: Kristen Dorsey
Kristen Dorsey joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in August 2021 as an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences.