Student Research News
Dec 05, 2022
BioE Students Filed 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, 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
ACM SIGHPC Computational and Data Science Fellowship
Ana Veroneze Solórzano, PhD’26, computer engineering, won a prestigious 2022 ACM Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC) Computational and Data Science Fellowship.
Nov 18, 2022
First Place Win 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
PhD candidate Yaren Bilge Kaya, industrial engineering, and MIE 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
Kate Duffy, PhD’21, interdisciplinary engineering, has been studying the effect of climate change on insect populations and their important role in our ecosystem. Her research was published in Nature Climate Change.
Oct 31, 2022
IEEE/ACM William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Nomination
ECE Assistant Professor Xiaolin Xu and student Tong Zhou, PhD’25, and coauthor 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.”
Oct 19, 2022
PhD Spotlight: Rohan Basu Roy, PhD’24 – Computer Engineering
Originally from Calcutta, India, Rohan Basu Roy began his PhD journey at Northeastern in 2019 in the Goodwill Computing Lab, advised by Associate Professor Devesh Tiwari of electrical and computer […]