ECE Student Stories
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Apr 27, 2020
2020 Huntington 100 COE Recipients
The 2020 members of Northeastern University’s “Huntington 100,” a group of students selected for their outstanding achievements locally and globally, included twenty-one students from the College of Engineering.
Apr 13, 2020
ECE Visiting Student/Postdoc Chen Pan to become an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi
The ECE visiting student/postdoc Chen Pan (supervisor Prof. Yanzhi Wang) has accepted the offer as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, starting Fall 2020. He works on embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, and embedded AI systems.
Mar 31, 2020
Congratulation NSF GRFP Recipients
Congratulations to the current students and alumni who are recipients of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Awards.
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Mar 13, 2020
ECE PhD Candidate Ao Ren to become an Assistant Professor at Clemson University
ECE PhD candidate Ao Ren, 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 2020.
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Feb 26, 2020
Defining Experiences on Co-op at Philips
Picture caption: Left to right: Jie Dai, ME’19, electrical and computer engineering, and Wangbo Jia, ME’19, electrical and computer engineering. Co-op can be a defining experience for students, and for two recent alumni, their time working at Philips Research Americas’ Cambridge Innovation Labs in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was no exception. Wangbo Jia, ME’19, originally from Beijing, […]
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Feb 13, 2020
Using Drones to Monitor Penguin Populations
Computer Engineering PhD students Yang Liu and Vikrant Shah traveled to Antarctica to count the dwindling population of chinstrap penguins with drones.
Jan 07, 2020
Recognizing Families in the Wild (RFIW)
Computer Engineering PhD student Joseph Robinson’s research on kinship recognition was featured in “Recognizing Families in the Wild (RFIW)” as the challenge of the month in Computer Vision News.
Jan 03, 2020
Recognizing Kin
Computer Engineering PhD student Joseph Robinson’s research on kinship recognition was featured in the Communications of the ACM article “Recognizing Kin”.