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Jun 14, 2018
Metamaterials Might Allow for Invisibility
MIE/ECE Assistant Professor Yongmin Liu has developed a machine learning algorithm to identify new metamaterial structures which would allow for light absorption and maybe someday even invisibility. In the world of Harry Potter, invisibility cloaks are made from the hair of a magical creature called a Demiguise. In our world, they may one day be […]
Jun 12, 2018
Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava Given Patent
ECE Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava was awarded a patent for “Low power clock source.” Abstract Source: USPTO An ultra-low power clock source includes a compensated oscillator and an uncompensated oscillator coupled by a comparator circuit. In an example, the compensated oscillator is more stable than the uncompensated oscillator with respect to changes in one or […]
Jun 12, 2018
Professor Kim Awarded Patent
ECE Professor Yong-Bin Kim was awarded a patent for creating an “Impedance calibration device for semiconductor device”.
Jun 12, 2018
Climate Dialogue to Peru & Brazil completes last two phases
CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly explains what his group of students on a Dialogue of Civilizations on Climate Change Science and Policy did for the second half of their trip.
Jun 11, 2018
NSF-sponsored US-Finland collaboration meeting held at Northeastern
ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury, coordinator for the Wireless Innovation between Finland and U.S. (WiFiUS) program, organized a PI meeting at Northeastern, with 10 projects currently funded on the theme of Internet of Things (IOT).
Jun 10, 2018
Smart Sensors for Health Applications
ECE Professor & Chair Srinivas Tadigadapa is using his inquisitive instincts to develop sensing technology for health applications.
Jun 07, 2018
Ostadabbas Awarded NSF CRII Grant
ECE Assistant Professor Sarah Ostadabbas has been awarded a $170K NSF grant to develop a “Semi-Supervised Physics-Based Generative Model for Data Augmentation and Cross-Modality Data Reconstruction” to bridge the gap between state-of-the-art deep learning techniques and the small data problem common in personalized healthcare and other data-limited domains.
May 24, 2018
Prof. Edmund Yeh to Serve on National Academies Panel
ECE Professor Edmund Yeh will serve on the National Academies Panel on Review of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The panel of leading experts will independently assess the scientific and technical work performed by the NIST Information Technology Laboratory and contribute to the development of the National […]