Student Research News
Oct 18, 2023
Testing Extremes of Human Motor Control to Advance Robotics
Dagmar Sternad, university distinguished professor of biology, ECE, and physics, 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 attached to a small float might be able to deliver a constant, low-dose of iron in the ocean to address climate change. View the WBUR […]
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.
Oct 12, 2023
PhD Spotlight: Razan Al Lawati, PhD’23, Industrial Engineering
Razan Al Lawati, PhD’23, industrial engineering, conducted research focusing on using stochastic optimization in various ways to develop decision-making tools for systems that deal with uncertainty. She developed a novel framework and her entrepreneurial drive led her to found a solar consulting firm in Oman. Her research contributions were published in the Journal of Applied Energy.
Oct 12, 2023
PhD Spotlight: Mireia Perera-González, PhD’23, Bioengineering
Mireia Perera-González’s, PhD’23, bioengineering, research has focused on developing and optimizing dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods for evaluating bioresponsive contrast agents. She has presented her work at international conferences, culminating in three first-author publications, two of which are currently under submission. Following graduation, Perera-González took a role as technical sales engineer/application scientist at Swabian Instruments USA.
Oct 12, 2023
PhD Spotlight: Jason Derks, PhD’22, Bioengineering
Jason Derks’ PhD’22, bioengineering, research focused on developing new methods for high throughput proteomics and using them for quantifying the proteomes of single nuclei from macrophage cells responding to bacterial antigens. He developed technology he would call “plexDIA,” which he published in Nature Biotechnology in 2022.
Oct 11, 2023
PhD Spotlight: Guillem Reus-Muns, PhD’23, Computer Engineering
Guillem Reus-Muns, PhD’23, computer engineering, led a NSF project on applied machine learning for wireless, and his work resulted in several foundational discoveries that will shape next-generation wireless standards. He has published in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Networks, IEEE Transactions on Networking, and IEEE Sensors. He published a total of 14 peer-reviewed research papers and submitted two patents. Following graduation, Reus-Muns joined Apple, as a wireless systems engineer.