Research
The College of Engineering has over 240 tenured/tenure-track faculty, each bringing complementary areas of research expertise to address pressing global challenges. Their state-of-art-research looks at critical issues in materials, processes, systems, infrastructure, hardware and software at every scale—nano to macro to global—grounded in a translational approach that integrates the values of fundamental and applied research.
Our faculty boldly innovate by collaborating across engineering disciplines and the university, as well as with government, academia, and industry. The College of Engineering has more than 20 multidisciplinary research centers and institutes with funding from eight federal agencies. Our commitment to conducting transformative research to better the world can be seen by our growth in external research funding, which exceeds $100 million annually, and by an investment in research facilities such as our 223,000 square foot, six-story Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex and 367,000 square foot, eight-story EXP facility for teaching and research.
Research At-A-Glance
External Research Funding (FY2024)
Research Centers and Institutes
Young Investigator Awards (as of Aug. 2024)
Patents 2018-Aug. 2024
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Recent News
Imani Receives Air Force Young Investigator Program Award
Mahdi Imani, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University, has received an Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) award for research on AI reasoning and human-AI collaboration. The three-year, $450,000 award supports his project, “Foundations of Trust and Influence in Human-AI Teams: Identifiability, Causal Measurement, and Stability”.
AIResQ Startup Uses Physics-Guided AI for Flood Resilience
Co-founded by CEE PhD alumni Udit Bhatia, PhD’18, and COE Distinguished Professor Auroop Ganguly, the startup AIResQ combines physics-guided artificial intelligence with localized data and custom low-cost sensors to help Indian cities and transportation networks predict and prepare for monsoon floods in real time.
Su and Fu Receive Best Paper Award at ECCV DriveX Workshop
ECE Assistant Professor Lili Su and Professor Raymond Fu, alongside their research group, received the DriveX@ECCV 2026 Best Paper Award at the DriveX Workshop during the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2026 in Malmö for their paper titled “Post-Training in End-to-End Autonomous Driving: Taxonomy, Methods, and Challenges.”
Patent for Robust Wi-Fi Environment Sensing Technology
ECE Associate Professor Francesco Restuccia was awarded a patent for “System and method for sensing an environment.”