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May 05, 2026
New Guidelines Aim to Make Technology Research More Accessible and Easier to Verify
ECE Professor Miriam Leeser and her co-authors examine the evolution of research transparency in their editorial, “Artifact Evaluation in the FPGA Community and in ACM TRETS,” published in ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems.
May 05, 2026
Groundbreaking Research on MIMO Wireless Networks
ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia received the 2026 IEEE INFOCOM Best Paper Award for his research on “BANDWEAVE: Enhanced Channel Estimation in MIMO Networks with Multi-Band Fusion,” which highlights his groundbreaking research on MIMO wireless networks.
May 05, 2026
Tiwari Receives 2026 ISC Jack Dongarra Early Career Award
ECE Associate Professor Devesh Tiwari was selected to receive the 2026 ISC Jack Dongarra Early Career Award for his groundbreaking research in sustainable HPC and hybrid quantum-classical systems.
Apr 29, 2026
New Research Recognized Among Top 24 Global Breakthroughs at OFC Conference
ECE Assistant Professor Yuan Yuan and his research team achieved a global distinction at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2026 for their paper, “Fully Integrated 1064 nm Transmitters With Widely Tunable GaAs Lasers and > 100-GHz Thin-Film LiNbO3 Modulators.”
Apr 28, 2026
Breakthrough in Reprogrammable Wireless Tech
Researchers from Northeastern’s Institute for NanoSystems Innovation (NanoSI) and the Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems have developed a dual-mode, reprogrammable on-chip antenna, published as a feature paper in a special issue of Electronics titled “Monolithic Integration of a Dual-Mode On-Chip Antenna with a Ferroelectric Hafnium Zirconium Oxide Varactor for Reprogrammable Radio-Frequency Front Ends.”
Apr 21, 2026
How Thermal Management & Advanced Materials Are Powering the Future
Yunume Fitchorova, principal engineer and director of the Materials and Devices Laboratories at the Kostas Research Institute, leads the development of advanced materials and thermal management solutions for high-power defense and civilian electronics, bridging the gap between electromagnetism and strategic device engineering.
Apr 15, 2026
Professional Development Through Human Connection with the LEADERs Program
For many PhD students, the path from academic research to an industry career can feel like navigating uncharted territory, but for Fridolin Paiki, a Computer Engineering doctoral candidate who specializes in System Identification and Machine Learning, the LEADERs program provided both the map and the compass needed for this voyage.
Apr 14, 2026
ECE Student Receives 2026 Critical Language Scholarship
Anastasia Lindquist, E’25, computer engineering and computer science, was the recipient of the 2026 Critical Language Scholarship, which partners with universities and nonprofits around the globe to provide cohorts of U.S. students an opportunity to study the language and culture in a country/location where the target language is commonly spoken.