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Sep 17, 2019
Protecting Autonomous Systems From Adversarial Attacks
ECE Assistant Professor Xue “Shelley” Lin is the PI of a $500K NSF grant, in collaboration with Alfred Chen from the University of California Irvine, for the “Design of Secured Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems Against Adversarial Machine Learning Attacks.”
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Sep 09, 2019
Liu Awarded NSF Grant for Chiral Molecules
MIE/ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu was awarded a $385K NSF grant for the “Chiroptical Sensing and Sorting by Structured Materials and Structured Light”.
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Sep 09, 2019
Coordinating Object Handovers Between Robots and Humans
Bouve Professor Eugene Tunik (PI) on the project, ECE Professor Deniz Erdogmus, Associate Professor Taskin Padir and Bouve Associate Research Scientist Mathew Yarossi were award a $760K NSF grant for the “Coordination of Dyadic Object Handover for Human-Robot Interactions”.
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Sep 09, 2019
Ostadabbas and Ramezani Awarded an NSF NRI EAGER
ECE Assistant Professors Sarah Ostadabbas (PI) and Alireza Ramezani (co-PI) received a $100K EAGER grant from NSF National Robotics Initiative (NRI) on teaching aerial robots to perch like a bat via AI-guided design and control.
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Sep 09, 2019
Wang Is Part of a Collaborative NSF Grant for Deep Neural Networks
ECE Assistant Professor Yanzhi Wang is the Northeastern lead as part of a $1.2M NSF grant that is in collaboration with Xuehai Qian and Viktor Prasanna from the University of Southern California, to create a “FASTLEAP: FPGA based compact Deep Learning Platform”.
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Sep 04, 2019
Emily Belk Wins DHS COE Summit Grand Challenge Competition
Computer Engineering and Computer Science BS student, Emily Belk was part of the winning team at the 2019 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Centers of Excellence (COE) Summit Grand Challenge Student Competition held on July 31st at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia.
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Sep 04, 2019
Melodia Appointed Editor in Chief of Computer Networks
ECE Professor Tommaso Melodia was appointed Editor in Chief (together with Prof. Antonio Iera from the University of Reggio Calabria, Italy), of Elsevier’s Computer Networks Journal.
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Aug 29, 2019
New Faculty Spotlight: Josep Jornet
Josep Jornet joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in August 2019 as an Associate Professor.