ECE Student Stories
Dec 20, 2021
ECE PhD Student Wins IEEE CDC Outstanding Student Paper Award
Jared Miller, PhD’23, electrical engineering, advised by Professor Mario Sznaier, won CDC Outstanding Student Paper Award at the 2021 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control for his paper “Peak Estimation for Uncertain and Switched Systems.”
Dec 16, 2021
ECE Wins NVIDIA CCS Best Student Paper Award
ECE Professor Y. Raymond Fu and his computer engineering students Songyao Jiang, PhD’22, Hongfu Liu, PhD’18, and Yue Wu, PhD’19, received the “NVIDIA CCS Best Student Paper Award” from IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) 2021.
Nov 22, 2021
Collaborative Work Between Cognitive Systems Laboratory and MERL Wins at NeurIPS 2021 BEETL Competition
Khoury computer science student Niklas Smedemark-Margulies, PhD’23, and his advisor ECE Professor Deniz Erdogmus were part of the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) Signal Processing team that placed first in the cross-subject transfer learning task and fourth place overall at the NeurIPS 2021 BEETL AI Challenge for EEG Transfer Learning.
Nov 22, 2021
Best Paper Award at IEEE PES ISGT Europe 2021
Ramtin Khalili, PhD’23, electrical engineering, and Professor Ali Abur received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE PES Innovative and Smart Grid Technologies-Europe 2021 conference for their paper titled “Three-phase Linear State Estimation Based on SCADA and PMU Measurements”.
Nov 17, 2021
Three ECE Students Named IEEE PES Scholarship Plus Initiative Awardees
Electrical and computer engineering students Eleanett Perez Cervera, E’22, Julia Estrin, E’22, and Valentina Ribeiro, E’24 are recipients of the 2021-2022 IEEE Power & Energy Society Scholarship Plus Initiative.
Oct 27, 2021
Computer PhD Student Selected for ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship
Tirthak Patel, PhD’22, computer engineering, was selected as a recipient of the 2021 ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship and the 2022 Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Research.
Oct 22, 2021
Northeastern Team Advances to Finals of ANA Avatar XPRIZE
Team Northeastern is one of 15 teams selected as finalists in the ANA Avatar XPRIZE. Finalist teams will equally share a milestone prize purse of $2M and move on to Finals Testing in Fall 2022 for their chance to win part of the $8M Finals prize purse.
Oct 19, 2021
2021 Fulbright Applicants
Rodrigo Blanco Bravo, E’22, bioengineering; Hannah Boyce, E’22, chemical engineering; Lake Jacobs-Skolik, E’22, electrical engineering; and Carrie Tam, E’22, civil engineering and architectural studies, are among the slate of 2021 Northeastern University applicants to the Fulbright US Student Program.