ECE Student Stories
Apr 24, 2014
SDM14 Best Paper Award
Computer Engineering PhD student Sheng Li and ECE & CCIS Assistant Professor Y. Raymond Fu were awarded the Best Paper Award at the prestigious SIAM International Conference on Data Mining for their paper on "Robust Subspace Discovery through Supervised Low-Rank Constraints". Only 1 paper out of the 384 submissions received this award.
Apr 23, 2014
Afternoon at the ‘museum’
It’s April 9, and a seventh grader from the James P. Timilty Middle School in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood is standing on a rotating platform on the third floor of Northeastern’s Snell Engineering building holding onto a spinning bicycle wheel. “When you take physics later,” says Yoshua Rozen, E’18, “you’ll learn all about the conservation of […]
Apr 14, 2014
2 ECE Students Chosen for Huntington 100
Dimitri Makris and Joseph Robinson were chosen for this year’s “Huntington 100”, a prestigious honor given to the most outstanding students for their hard work and achievements.
Apr 14, 2014
Best Paper at EuCAP
ECE PhD student Yolanda Rodriquez, CenSSIS Senior Research Engineer Borja Ganzalez, ECE Professor Carey Rappaport and MIE Assistant Professor Jose Martinez-Lorenzo won the Best Propagation Paper Award at the 8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation for "A compressed sensing-based imaging system".
Apr 11, 2014
Outstanding Research Award
ECE PhD student Ceyhun Karbeyaz received a Graduate Computer and Information Sciences Research Award at this year's RISE Expo for a Web-based Laboratory for Computational Social Science. The online laboratory will allow researchers to conduct experiments in a much larger scale than they ever could.
Apr 11, 2014
Interdisciplinary Research
Jodi Belz (BioE PhD), Stacey Markovic (EE PhD), and Mark Niedre (ECE Assistant Professor) were awarded a Graduate Interdisciplinary Research Award at this year’s RISE Expo. The project, called “Localized tumor delivery of radiosensitizers and chemotherapeutics using ‘INCeRT’ implants” involves a new chemo-treatment that can potentially reduce tumors.
Apr 11, 2014
COE Dean's Award
ECE PhD Aida Ehyaei was awarded the COE Dean's Award at this year's RISE Expo for "A System For Gathering Data on Sleep Behavior and Context in the Home Setting".
Apr 10, 2014
Three Northeastern students named Goldwater Scholars
Three Northeastern University students—Theo Bowe, S’16, Tushar Swamy, E/S’15, and Greg Allan, E/S’16—have been selected to receive the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. A total of 283 sophomores and juniors in the U.S. were named Goldwater Scholars for the 2014–15 academic year. Scholars were selected from a field of 1,166 math, science, and engineering students […]