Student Research News
Dec 12, 2022
SC22 Demo Shows Record Performance for NDN-based Data Delivery Platform
The NSF-supported multi-university N-DISE (NDN for Data-Intensive Science Experiments) project, led by ECE Professor Edmund Yeh, has finished a highly successful demo at SC22 in Dallas. The Northeastern-Caltech-UCLA-Tennessee Tech team demonstrated a record average throughput of 50 Gbps and peak throughput of 63 Gbps for the N-DISE data delivery platform on a transcontinental wide area network testbed.
Dec 05, 2022
BioE Students Granted Provisional Patent for a Breast Implant Design that Mimics Natural Bodies
Breast implants in the 21st century provoke images of popular culture beauty icons, but their importance surpasses societal status throughout the worlds of biomedical engineering and plastic surgery. Last Spring, an NU Bioengineering student group realized a gap in the market of breast implants. They worked together to create an implant that mimics natural bodies and recently received a provisional patent for the design.
Nov 22, 2022
PhD Student Wins SIGHPC Computational and Data Science Fellowship
Computer engineering student Ana Veroneze Solórzano, PhD’26, won a prestigious 2022 ACM Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC) Computational and Data Science Fellowship.
Nov 18, 2022
NU Wins 1st Place at 2022 NASA BIG IDEA Competition
A Northeastern University student team won the prestigious Artemis Award, the top honor at NASA’s 2022 Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-changing (BIG) Idea Challenge for their COBRA: Crater Observing Bio-inspired Rolling Articulator.
Nov 08, 2022
Northeastern Robotics Team Wins $1M for Third-place Finish in Global Competition
Team Northeastern won $1 million in third place among 17 finalists from around the globe in the ANA Avatar XPrize robotics competition.
Nov 07, 2022
Outstanding Paper Award at ACM Conference on Equity and Access
MIE PhD Candidate Yaren Bilge Kaya and Assistant Professor Kayse Lee Maass received an Outstanding Paper Award at the 2022 ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization.
Nov 04, 2022
Insect Population Decline to Effect Pollination
Interdisciplinary engineering student Kate Duffy, PhD’21, has been studying the effect of climate change on insect populations and their important role in our ecosystem.
Oct 31, 2022
ECE Faculty and PhD Student Receive IEEE/ACM William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Nomination
ECE Assistant Professor Xiaolin Xu and student Tong Zhou, PhD’25, and coauthor Dr. Shaolei Ren from UC Riverside, received the IEEE/ACM William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Nomination, at the 2022 International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (IEEE/ACM ICCAD, San Diego, CA), for their paper titled “ObfuNAS: A Neural Architecture Search-based DNN Obfuscation Approach”.