Student Research News
Mar 30, 2026
Making AI in Healthcare Reliable with Dr. Burcu Ozek
Dr. Burcu Ozek is currently a Principal AI Scientist at Walkky after completing a PhD in industrial engineering at Northeastern. Looking back at her time with Northeastern, Ozeck shares the value of the LEADERs program and how her hands-on experience gave her the necessary skills to communicate across teams in her work with AI in healthcare.
Mar 27, 2026
Where Impact Meets Innovation, Abhiram Elango, MS’25
Abhiram Elango, MS’25, electrical and computer engineering, recently completed his master’s degree at Northeastern. Armed with new confidence and expertise, he is now pursuing roles in wireless communications where he can work closely with customers and see the direct impact of his work.
Mar 26, 2026
Spoiled: How One Polymer Could Change the Way We Trust Our Food and Medicine
Tara Arjomandbigdeli, PhD’27, is an interdisciplinary engineering researcher at Northeastern’s eSOIL, a lab where she is developing a heat-sensitive polymer label designed to protect consumers by detecting when temperature-sensitive products like food or medication have spoiled. With plans to launch a startup from her research, she hopes to bring the technology to market—and eventually into every home.
Mar 25, 2026
Best Paper Award at 3DV 2026 for LAPA Multi-Camera Point Tracking
ECE Associate Professor Sarah Ostadabbas and her team of PhD, MS, and postdoctoral researchers at the Augmented Cognition Lab received the Best Paper Award at the 2026 International Conference on 3D Vision for their paper on “Look Around and Pay Attention: Multi-camera Point Tracking Reimagined with Transformers”.
Mar 24, 2026
Innovation in the World of Wireless Communication
Pietro Brach del Prever, PhD’27, computer engineering, is conducting research at the Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems. With the support of Northeastern and a drive to push boundaries, Brach del Prever continues to dedicate himself to research that advances wireless communication.
Mar 23, 2026
Trust the System: A Q M Sazzad Sayyed’s Mission to Make AI Safer
A Q M Sazzad Sayyed, PhD’27, is an electrical engineering researcher at Northeastern’s MENTIS Lab, where he works on making AI systems safer and more reliable—ensuring they can be trusted when deployed in the real world. His work on robustness, out-of-distribution detection, and data integrity positions him at the forefront of a challenge that will only grow more critical as AI becomes further embedded in everyday life.
Mar 12, 2026
Industrial Engineering Students Publish Findings on Dual Substance Use and Treatment Success
The research conducted by Logan Kane, E’26, industrial engineering, in collaboration with Sahil Shikalgar, PhD’26, industrial engineering, in a data science workshop offered by MIE Associate Professor Md Noor E Alam on “Investigating the Effect of Secondary Cannabis Use on Treatment Discontinuation Among Individuals Undergoing Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment” was published in Substance Use & Misuse.
Mar 10, 2026
Beyond the Barrier: How Joshua Mantey is Reimagining Oral Drug Delivery
Joshua Mantey, PhD’29, is a chemical engineering researcher at Northeastern’s SymBioSys Lab, where he applies machine learning and molecular dynamics simulations to improve how oral drugs are absorbed through the intestinal mucus barrier. He aims to take the knowledge and experience from his research to create a lasting beneficial impact on human health.