ECE Student Stories
Oct 20, 2017
Human-Robot Friendship
Doctoral student Murphy Wonsick envisions a world where humans and robots coexist as friends. She spends her days trying to figure out how astronauts and robots can work together to complete dangerous tasks in space. In fact, she’s working on one of the world’s most advanced humanoid robots to exist—Northeastern’s NASA robot Valkyrie—under the direction […]
Oct 18, 2017
Easy ‘Friending’ Startup
Jay Shome and Andrew Smith, BS, Computer Engineering, 2018—“Friending made easy.” That’s the motto of FriendsUp, a new app enabling users to share contact information and connect via Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram in the blink of an eye. It’s the brainchild of Andrew Smith and Jay Shome, both E’18, who launched the app in July […]
Oct 18, 2017
Easy ‘Friending’ Startup
Computer Engineering students Jay Shome and Andrew Smith developed the app FriendsUp to share and connect to multiple social accounts at once.
Sep 27, 2017
PhD Student Receives Funding to Attend and Present at Pittcon 2018 Conference
ECE PhD Student Zhengming Ding has received funding to attend and present at the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Forensic Science Research & Development Poster Session at the Pittcon 2018 Conference & Expo in Orlando, Florida. He is a NIJ graduate fellow. Ding’s faculty advisor is Professor Yun Raymond Fu. His research interests include machine learning […]
Sep 19, 2017
Undergraduate Lab Fair Offers New Experiences
The COE Undergraduate Lab Fair provides undergraduate students with an opportunity to learn about all the research options available to them. Source: News @ Northeastern Nicholas Fresneda strode into the Curry Student Center Ballroom with high expectations, intent on finding an opportunity to work in one of the College of Engineering’s many cutting-edge research labs. […]
Sep 18, 2017
Two ECE Students Win 2017 Women Forward in Technology Scholarship
Two students from Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) — Carolina Binns (left) and Sara Symonds (right) — have been announced as recipients of the 2017 Women Forward in Technology Scholarship. This unique scholarship program was founded by Distil Networks, Foundry Group, Techstars, Cooley, Yesware, Help Scout, Cloudability, Kulesa Faul, FullContact, and Anchor Point Fund, with […]
Sep 06, 2017
PhD Students Win 2017 RERC on AAC Research Award
Two Northeastern PhD students won a 2017 Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Augmentative and Alternative Communication (RERC on AAC) Award. Fernando Quivira and Matt Higger’s Shuffle Speller project won the 2017 RERC on AAC Student Research and Design Competition. The competition is designed to advance understanding and enhance augmentative and alternative communication technologies to improve […]
Aug 28, 2017
Research in Extreme Conditions
Alek Razdan, PhD, Computer Engineering, 2021—This is the Antarctic Ocean in winter. It’s the last place anyone would want to be—unless you’re trying to solve a climate change mystery. An international crew of scientists, including Northeastern graduate student Alek Razdan, recently returned from a two-month expedition to the Ross Sea off the coast of Antarctica. […]