Student Research News

Jun 12, 2025
SDS Lab Research Featured at Congressional Testimony
A written statement on research conducted by the Sustainability and Data Sciences Laboratory at Northeastern University (SDS Lab) led by Auroop Ganguly, CEE distinguished professor, was featured at the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Border Management, Federal Workforce and Regulatory Affairs, as part of a Congressional testimony presented on June 10, 2025.

Jun 10, 2025
Real-World Applications of Theoretical Knowledge Lead to Industry Success
Keshab Siddhant, MS’24, engineering management, valued the program’s combination of theoretical curriculum and real-world application through a co-op at Tesla, faculty mentorship, and student organizations.

Jun 10, 2025
PhD Spotlight: John Moody, PhD’25, Civil and Environmental Engineering
John Moody, PhD’25, civil and environmental engineering, focused his research on improving the maintenance of urban rail systems, designing strategies to increase available time for maintenance activities and frameworks to quantify and act on the trade-offs between maintenance and revenue of passenger-carrying service.

Jun 10, 2025
PhD Spotlight: Turner Jennings, PhD’25, Mechanical Engineering
Turner Jennings, PhD’25, mechanical engineering, authored a dissertation on improving helmet impact response that focused on using granular materials instead of polymeric foams to absorb impact energy. Following graduation, Jennings joined Northeastern as a postdoctoral research associate.

Jun 10, 2025
PhD Spotlight: Lluvia “Weijia” Jing, PhD’25, Industrial Engineering
Lluvia “Weijia” Jing, PhD’25, industrial engineering, focused on optimizing global humanitarian supply chains. As part of a multi-year collaboration with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Jing led the development of advanced models to support decision-making for both pre- and post-disaster planning strategies in regions affected by food insecurity.

Jun 10, 2025
PhD Spotlight: Ruyi Ding, Ph’25, Computer Engineering
Ruyi Ding, PhD’25, computer engineering, focuses his research on the intersection of artificial intelligence security and hardware security, following a software–hardware co design paradigm. In fall 2025, Ding will join the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Louisiana State University as an assistant professor.

Jun 10, 2025
PhD Spotlight: Aria Masoomi, PhD’24, Computer Engineering, and Mathematics
Aria Masoomi, PhD’24, computer engineering, and PhD’24, mathematics, focused his dissertation research for computer engineering on “Making Deep Neural Networks Transparent.” His mathematics thesis was “Poisson Geometry of Flag Varieties and Representation Theory of Their Quantum Deformation.”

Jun 10, 2025
PhD Spotlight: Duschia Bodet, PhD’25, Electrical Engineering
Duschia Bodet, PhD’25, electrical engineering, conducts research at the forefront of wireless communications with a focus on modulation techniques and beam control for sub-terahertz, multiple antenna systems. In addition to being published, she won Best Paper Award at GLOBECOM and received the Paul Baran Young Scholar Award from the Marconi Society.