ECE Student Stories

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Oct 18, 2022

2022 Fulbright Applicants

Spencer Lake Jacobs-Skolik, E’22, and Daniel Norris, E’22, are among this year’s applicants for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.

Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Oct 18, 2022

ECE Student Nominated for Schwarzman Scholarship

Electrical engineering student Alex Marley, E’22, was nominated for the Schwarzman Scholarship, which funds a year of study at China’s Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Oct 14, 2022

PhD Spotlight: Tirthak Patel, PhD’22 – Computer Engineering

After earning his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with honors from the University of Toronto, Tirthak Patel joined Northeastern to pursue his PhD in computer engineering, advised by Devesh Tiwari, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. Patel’s research addresses the challenge of error-prone program executions on quantum computers and provides robust solutions to improve […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Oct 07, 2022

Announcing Fall 2022 PEAK Experiences Awardees

Several engineering students and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Northeastern’s Fall 2022 PEAK Experiences Awards. This extraordinary group of students is taking on a range of exciting projects, from exploring axolotl limb regeneration to building a snake-inspired robot to understanding accessibility on Broadway. ASCENT AWARDS Justin Almendral COE’24, “Wearable Art” Mentor: […]

Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Sep 08, 2022

Outstanding Paper Award at IEEE HPEC Conference

Computer engineering student Baolin Li, PhD’24, and ECE Associate Professor Devesh Tiwari received an outstanding paper award (top ~5%) from the IEEE HPEC conference for their paper “Benchmarking Resource Usage for Efficient Distributed Deep Learning.” Li was also nominated as one of four students selected by Northeastern University for the Google PhD Fellowship.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jul 22, 2022

Six Engineering Spinouts Selected as Eddies Finalists

Six spinout companies that were created by engineering faculty have been selected as finalists for the Massachusetts Innovation Network’s innovation competition, The Eddies. Every year, the Massachusetts Innovation Network hosts its signature innovation competition, The Eddies. The Eddies (formerly known as NE Innovation Awards) is the oldest and longest running innovation competition in New England. […]

Chemical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jul 07, 2022

ECE PhD Students Win PETRA Best Student Paper Award

ECE PhD student Kyle Lockwood and coauthors received the best student paper award at PETRA 2022 (Corfu, Greece), with their paper titled “Leveraging Submovements for Prediction and Trajectory Planning for Human-Robot Handover”.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Rookie Author of the Year Plaque.

Jun 28, 2022

ECE PhD Wins ACM TODAES Rookie Author of the Year Award

Computer engineering student, Shijin Duan, PhD’25, advised by ECE Assistant Professor Xiaolin Xu, is the recipient of the prestigious ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) Rookie Author of the Year (RAY) Award, for their paper titled “FPGAPRO: A Defense Framework Against Crosstalk-Induced Secret Leakage in FPGA”.

Electrical & Computer Engineering