Student Research News
Nov 03, 2023
Advancing Robotics and Space Exploration Through Co-op, Labs, and Clubs
Garrit Strenge, E’24, computer engineering and computer science, has had three co-ops at Busck Space Propulsion, Morse Corp., and Amazon Robotics. He is also conducted research in the Movement Neuroscience Lab, and is active in clubs such as Students for the Exploration of Space.
Oct 27, 2023
Electrical Engineer’s Path From the Dominican Republic to Northeastern University
Cesar Manuel De Oleo, E’26, electrical engineering, participated in the Undergraduate Program for Leaders In Future Transformation (UPLIFT) program. As a first-year student, he participated in research on parallel computing. He has learned buildup of C programming, algorithms, libraries, and programming in CUDA and help his research.
Oct 26, 2023
A Culture of Ambition and Determination
With a goal of earning a PhD, Melissa Scanlon, E’24, bioengineering and biochemistry, has had three research co-ops in the areas of cell biology and cellular engineering, and also studied abroad for semester at Mahidol University in Thailand.
Oct 24, 2023
Patent for Improving RF Resonator Technology
ECE Associate Professor Cristian Casella and Xuanyi Zhao, PhD’23, electrical engineering, were awarded a patent for “Two dimensional rod resonator for RF filtering.”
Oct 18, 2023
Testing Extremes of Human Motor Control To Advance Robotics
Dagmar Sternad, University Distinguished Professor of biology, physics, and ECE, and her research group at Northeastern’s Action Lab, including mechanical engineering PhD student Mahdiar Edraki, are looking at extreme human movement to understand how humans manipulate complex objects, like whips.
Oct 18, 2023
WBUR: To Slow Climate Change, Some Want To ‘Engineer the Ocean’
University Distinguished and Snell Professor of Engineering Akram Alshawabkeh’s lab is working with Sr. Scientist Ken Buesseler of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to see if a simple, solar-powered battery […]
Oct 13, 2023
PhD Spotlight: Yu Yin, PhD’23, Computer Engineering
Yu Yin’s, PhD’23, computer engineering, research interests broadly include visual synthesis and understanding, multimodality fusion, and transfer learning. She has more than two dozen peer-reviewed papers. Yin received the NSF I-Corps grant in 2022 and the Northeastern University Dissertation Completion Fellowship in 2023. She also worked at Microsoft and Zillow as a research intern. Yin is now at Case Western Reserve University’s School of Engineering as an assistant professor of computer and data sciences.
Oct 12, 2023
PhD Spotlight: Xiaoyu “Criss” Zhang, PhD’23, Mechanical Engineering
Xiaoyu “Criss” Zhang, PhD’23, mechanical engineering, focused research to understand and tailor magnetofunctional materials. He applied novel materials processing approaches to alter local atomic environments and structures at scales from Ångstrom-level to microscale to tailor magnetofunctionality. Zhang contributed to 14 peer-reviewed journal publications, including nine published contributions, with three as first-author, and five manuscripts in preparation. He continued as a postdoctoral researcher.