News
Jan 30, 2019
Finding the Right Balance
COS/ECE Professor Dagmar Sternad is studying the motion of dancers from the Boston Ballet to determine how the human body balances itself which could help improve medical rehabilitation as well as stabilizing robots.
Jan 22, 2019
Developing Robots That Don’t Fall
ECE Assistant Professor Alireza Ramezani is working on designing robots that can not only walk but fly to someday explore distant planets.
Jan 18, 2019
Rinaldi Awarded $1.7M ARPA-E Grant for Transformational Energy Technology
Matteo Rinaldi, ECE Associate Professor and director of Northeastern SMART, was awarded a $1.7M grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) for “Zero-Power Wireless Infrared Digitizing Sensors for Large Scale Energy-Smart Farm”.
Jan 18, 2019
Mathworks TA office Hours for Spring 2019
Mathworks TA office hours for Spring 2019: Mondays: 4:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tuesdays: 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm Wednesdays: 4:30 pm – 8:00 pm in Snell Library Colab-D
Jan 17, 2019
Creating Low-Cost, Low-Power Sensors to Protect Crops
Matteo Rinaldi, ECE Associate Professor and Director of Northeastern SMART, is developing low-cost, low-power sensors that can monitor the health of a farmer’s crop and alert them when there is trouble.
Jan 04, 2019
Patent Awarded to Assistant Professor Shrivastava
ECE Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava was awarded a patent for “Single Inductor Multiple Output DC-DC converter.” Abstract Source: USPTO In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a single-inductor multiple-output (SIMO) direct current (DC-DC) converter circuit, with the SIMO DC-DC converter circuit having a set of output nodes. The apparatus also includes a panoptic dynamic voltage scaling […]
Jan 04, 2019
Mosallaei to Work on Optical Links for Space
ECE Professor Hossein Mosallaei was awarded a $500K grant, in collaboration with California Institute of Technology, for “Optical Links for Space” from the NASA Innovative program.
Jan 02, 2019
ECE Faculty and Students Receive Funding From CRI
Four faculty members will have projects funded by Northeastern through the Center for Research innovation as part of a new funding initiative administered by the Center for Research Innovation. For a full description, please see this CRI announcement page. The projects and faculty awarded include: Battery-less Infrared Sensor Tags for Reliable Occupancy Sensing (BISTROS)Matteo Rinaldi, Zhenyun […]