ECE Student Stories
Apr 26, 2022
2022 Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Research Winners
Li Jiao, PhD’22, chemical engineering, and Tirthak Patel, PhD’23, computer engineering received 2022 Outstanding Graduate Student Awards in Research.
Apr 25, 2022
Congratulation NSF GRFP Recipients
Congratulations to the current students and alumni who are recipients of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Awards.
Apr 19, 2022
Congratulations RISE: 2022 Winners
Congratulations to our engineering students who won awards at the RISE:2022 Research, Innovation and Scholarship Expo!
Apr 14, 2022
PlusOne Leads to Head Start on Career Success
Nicolas Tedori, E’20, computer engineering, MS’21, electrical and computer engineering, didn’t arrive at Northeastern intending to complete both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in five years. But when his academic advisor told him about the PlusOne program during his third year of study in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, it made immediate sense […]
Mar 23, 2022
PhD Student Xiaolong Ma to Become Assistant Professor at Clemson University
ECE PhD candidate Xiaolong Ma, advised by Assistant Professor Yanzhi Wang, has accepted an offer as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson University, starting Fall 2022. He works on compression-compilation co-design of deep learning applications, deep learning training acceleration, etc.
Mar 14, 2022
SEDS Student Group Finalist in NASA BIG Idea Challenge for Innovative Robot Snake Design
A Northeastern University student team, advised by Assistant Professor Alireza Ramezani, electrical and computer engineering, was one of seven university teams selected as finalists in the 2022 NASA’s BIG Idea Challenge. The team’s project, titled “COBRA: Crater Observing Bio-inspired Rolling Articulator,” received $174K in funds to further develop and test the technologies over the next 10 months. COBRA is a snake-like design for their robot which will allow it to traverse the extreme terrains on the moon’s surface.
Mar 10, 2022
ECE PhD Students Nominated as Finalists for Best Paper at IEEE Conference
Xuanyi Zhao, PhD’23, and Onurcan Kaya, PhD’24, electrical engineering, have been nominated as finalists for the best student paper at the 2022 Joint conference of the European Frequency and Time Forum & the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium.
Feb 08, 2022
Computer PhD Alum to Lead SAIL
Alumnus and Draper GEM Fellow Will Tomlinson, PhD’18, Computer Engineering, is named director of the Software and Application Innovation Lab (SAIL) at Boston University. Related News: Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Community Service Creating a Safer Way to Transmit Data Overcoming the Odds