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Nov 04, 2019
Stojanovic Awarded IEEE WICE Outstanding Achievement Award
ECE Professor Milica Stojanovic was awarded the 2019 IEEE Women in Communications Engineering (WICE) Outstanding Achievement Award for having done outstanding technical work in the broad field of communications engineering, and achieved a high degree of visibility in the field.
Oct 27, 2019
ICCV 2019 Workshop RQL Best Paper Award given to Can Qin, Lichen Wang, Yulun Zhang, and Professor Yun “Raymond” Fu
Electrical Engineering PhD students Can Qin, Lichen Wang, Yulun Zhang, and Professor Yun “Raymond” Fu’s paper, “Generatively Inferential Co-Training for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation,” was awarded the Best Paper Award in the The International Workshop and Challenge on Real-World Recognition from Low-Quality Images and Videos (RLQ), in conjunction with International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2019.
Oct 25, 2019
Rinaldi Awarded Patent for Integrated PCM Switches for Piezoelectric MEMS Resonators
ECE Associate Professor Matteo Rinaldi was awarded a patent for “Piezoelectric MEMS resonator with integrated phase change material switches.”
Oct 25, 2019
Makris Awarded Patent for Monitoring Marine Animals
ECE Professor Purnima Ratilal Makris was awarded a patent for “Systems and methods for monitoring and classifying marine animals based on acoustic signals”. Abstract Source: USPTO Disclosed herein are apparatus, devices, and methods for monitoring marine animals, such as whales, and other marine mammals, and fish groups within a marine environment. A marine animal monitoring […]
Oct 25, 2019
Competing in International Off-Road Racing Competitions
Northeastern’s Baja SAE team design and build their own all-terrain cars from scratch to compete in international off-road racing competitions.
Oct 24, 2019
COE Students Nominated for Knight-Hennessy and Schwarzman Scholarships
Congratulations to Anas Abou Allaban, Sofia Catalina, Simisola Familusi, & Elizabeth Wig who were nominated for Knight-Hennessey Scholarships and Thomas Cerier & Michael Tormey who were nominated for Schwarzman Scholarships. The Knight-Hennessy and Schwarzman Scholarships, which fund study at Stanford and within China’s Tsinghua University respectively, are among the newest and most prestigious postbaccalaureate awards […]
Oct 24, 2019
ACM TOMM Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award 2019 awarded to Shuhui Jiang, Yue Wu, and Professor Yun “Raymond” Fu
Electrical PhD students Shuhui Jiang, Yue Wu, and Professor Yun “Raymond” Fu’s paper, “Deep Bi-directional Cross-triplet Embedding for Online Clothing Shopping,” was awarded the ACM TOMM Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award 2019.
Oct 23, 2019
Upstage Lung Cancer Funds Biomarker Sensor Project Supporting Early Lung Cancer Detection
Boston-based organization Upstage Lung Cancer (ULC), the advocacy non-profit exclusively utilizing performing arts to raise awareness and funding in the fight against lung cancer, has awarded a $30k grant award to ECE Professor Nian Sun’s cutting edge Advanced Materials and Microsystems Laboratory (AMML), substantially funding a new research project exploring the use of a hand-held gas screening sensor system for breath biomarkers in the early detection screening of lung cancer.