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May 24, 2018
Climate Dialogue to Peru & Brazil completes 2 of 4 phases
The 2018 Northeastern University Dialogue of Civilizations on Climate Change Science and Policy, led by Professor Auroop Ratan Ganguly and co-led by his PhD student Udit Bhatia, completed the first two of the four phases.
May 22, 2018
Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava Awarded Patent
ECE Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava was awarded a patent for “Low voltage crystal oscillator (XTAL) driver with feedback controlled duty cycling for ultra low power.” Abstract Source: USPTO A low voltage crystal oscillator (XTAL) driver with feedback controlled duty cycling for ultra low power biases an amplifier for an XTAL in the sub-threshold operating regime. […]
May 21, 2018
ECE PhD Student Awarded at IEEE International Conference
ECE PhD Student Joseph Robinson has been awarded a certificate of appreciation from the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face Gesture Recognition in Xi'an, China. Robinson was given the Best Reviewer Award for the Excellence in Reviewing. Robinson is a PhD student under ECE Associate Professor Yun Raymond Fu, Director of the Synergetic Media Learning Lab.
May 21, 2018
2018 GRI Seed Grant Awardees
Congratulations to the four COE teams out of eight total receiving 2018 Seed Grant funding from the Global Resilience Institute (GRI). The resilience project topics range from coastal flooding prediction to combating opioid addiction. This year’s pool of proposals was particularly robust, with submissions demonstrating both strengths in their interdisciplinary approaches and in their promise […]
May 21, 2018
Next Generation Checkpoints
Transportation Security Administration Administrator David Pekoske toured the Center for Awareness and Localization of Explosives-Related Threats (ALERT) on Friday to see if the technology Northeastern is working on can be implemented at security checkpoints. The nation’s top airport security official Friday toured a Northeastern center that develops technology aimed at ensuring the safety of airline […]
May 17, 2018
Rinaldi Awarded 2 Patents
ECE Associate Professor Matteo Rinaldi was awarded 2 patents for nano- and microelectromechanical resonators.
May 17, 2018
Fu Awarded Patent for Extracting Features from Images
ECE/CCIS Associate Professor Yun “Raymond” Fu was awarded a patent for “Apparatus and method for extracting feature of image including object”.
May 16, 2018
ECE Professor and Chair Srinivas Tadigadapa Authors Top 15 Physics Paper in Scientific Reports
ECE Professor and Chair Srinivas Tadigadapa authored one of the 2017 most read physics papers published in Scientific Reports. The article, “On-Chip Glass Microspherical Shell Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators,” placed at number 11 for most read out of more than 3000. For a comprehensive list of the most read physics papers, visit Scientific Reports.