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Sep 16, 2018
Embark, Volume II Published
Embark, Northeastern’s Undergraduate Engineering and Applied Sciences Review, has published their second volume. Go check it out here! Research was executed by undergraduate students across an array of fields. Content includes five submissions by undergraduate students Dalton Cox, Maria Jennings, Andrew Fish, Alexander Interrante-Grant, and Benjamin Trapani. Thanks to all of our student editors who […]
Sep 12, 2018
Detecting Trojan Circuits with On-Chip Temperature Sensors
ECE Associate Professor Marvin Onabajo and Professor Yong-Bin Kim were awarded a patent for creating a "method to use on-chip temperature sensors for detection of Trojan circuits". Abstract Source: USPTO A method for detecting a malicious circuit on an integrated circuit chip is provided, in which temperature sensors are thermally coupled to primary circuitry on […]
Sep 12, 2018
$13.2M NIH Award for Environmental Influences of Child Health Outcomes in Puerto Rico
CEE Professor Akram Alshawabkeh has been awarded $13.2M over five years from the National Institutes of Health to lead a renewal of the multi-institutional and interdisciplinary research project, entitled, “Environmental Influences of Child Health Outcomes in Puerto Rico (ECHO-PRO).
Sep 10, 2018
Improving Human-Robot Interactions with Dynamically Complex Objects
Professor Dagmar Sternad, Biology, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics, recently received a $700,000 National Science Foundation grant title, “Learning to Control Dynamically Complex Objects” to improve human-robot interaction by exploring how humans manipulate complex objects and tools. Insights gained from the three-year grant, awarded to both Sternad and her collaborator, Professor Neville Hogan, Mechanical Engineering […]
Sep 06, 2018
Imaging the Brain With Transparent Array of Microelectrodes
ECE Assistant Professor Hui Fang and a team of neuroscientists from Boston Children’s Hospital have developed a transparent array of microelectrodes on nano-mesh to monitor the impulses sent by the brain.
Sep 06, 2018
Creating an Optimal Sharing Economy
Professors Ozlem Ergun (MIE), Haris Koutsopoulos (CEE), and Jennie Stephens (CSSH/Affiliated CEE) were awarded a $99K NSF grant for a “Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Sharing economy – Humans, Automation, Resilience and Engineering: SHARE”.
Sep 05, 2018
Professor Camps Awarded Best Paper from 2018 ICDSC Conference
ECE Professor Octavia Camps and her collaborators were awarded the Best Paper Award at the 2018 International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The paper, titled "Correlating Belongings with Passengers in a Simulated Airport Security Checkpoint," is co-authored by Ashraful Islam, Yuexi Zhang, Dong Yin, Octavia Camps and Richard Radke. The research for […]
Sep 04, 2018
Securing Global Navigation Satellite System Infrastructures
ECE Assistant Professor Pau Closas was awarded a $160K NSF grant for “securing GNSS-based infrastructures.” Pau Closas, assistant professor, electrical and computer engineering, was awarded a $160K National Science Foundation grant for securing GNSS-based infrastructures. GNSS stands for Global Navigation Satellite Systems, encompassing all those positioning systems (like GPS or Galileo) that use a constellation […]