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Dec 13, 2018
Shafai Awarded WAC Lifetime Achievement Award
ECE Professor Bahram Shafai received the Lifetime Achievement Award from World Automation Congress (WAC) 2018 for Outstanding Contributions to Robust Stability and Control of Multivariable Systems and Observer Design for Fault Detection.
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Dec 12, 2018
Mosallaei's APL Article Selected as Editor's Pick
ECE Professor Hossein Mosallaei’s article on “Neural Network Based Design of Metagratings” published in Applied Physics Letters was selected as Editor’s Pick.
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Dec 06, 2018
NU Team Announced as Finalist in 2019 Mars Ice Challenge
A group of Northeastern students led by ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir was selected as one of ten finalists in NASA’s 2019 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) Special Edition: Moon to Mars Ice and Prospecting Challenge for their project “Northeastern University Prospecting Underground Distilling Liquid Extractor (NU-PUDLE)”.
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Dec 04, 2018
Prof. Edmund Yeh to Serve as General Chair of ACM SIGMETRICS 2020
ECE Professor Edmund Yeh will serve as General Chair of ACM SIGMETRICS 2020, to be held in Boston. SIGMETRICS is the world's leading conference in the area of performance analysis, measurement, and modeling of computer systems. Known for its high selectivity, the conference has published many landmark papers in the area. SIGMETRICS 2018.
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Nov 29, 2018
CEE Professor Ganguly to deliver invited keynote at National Academies workshop
CEE Professor Auroop R. Ganguly was invited as a keynote speaker at The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) workshop on “Frontiers on Big Data, Modeling, and Simulation in Urban Sustainability” organized by the National Academies’ Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics.
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Nov 27, 2018
Unlocking the Mysteries of Mars
After the recent landing of NASA’s InSight lander on Mars, ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir is hoping that its investigation of the interior structure and composition of the planet will provide insight into how Mars was formed.
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Nov 26, 2018
Sznaier Selected as IEEE Fellow
ECE Professor Mario Sznaier has been elevated to an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to identification of switched systems and multiobjective control. IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation. The total number selected in any one year […]
Nov 26, 2018
Fu Selected as IEEE Fellow
ECE/CCIS Associate Professor Yun Raymond Fu has been elevated to an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to manifold learning and face and gesture recognition. IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation. The total number selected in any […]