Family & Friends Weekend 2023
2023-10-13 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Join us for a fun weekend with your family and friends. Explore the Snell Engineering Center during an Open House and learn more from Dean Gregory Abowd during a Brunch & College Conversation event. Enjoy yummy food and grab some swag. Please see details below for information on both events.
Join us on October 13 from 4-5pm for an Open House and Reception at Snell Engineering Center, Floors 1+3.
Join us on October 14 from 10-11am for a Brunch and College Conversation with our Dean at the Curry Student Center West Addition.

NACME Annual Conference & Gala @ Washington, DC
2023-10-14 08:00 - 10:00
Join COE Graduate Admissions at NACME Annual Conference in Washington DC starting Thursday, October 12th to Saturday, October 14th. Key a special eye out for the University Fair on Saturday, October 14th, 2023 at 8 a.m. to ask your questions about Graduate Engineering programs at Northeastern!

Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month at the Museum of Science
2023-10-14 10:00 - 2023-10-15 16:00
ECE Associate Professor Canek Fuentes Hernandez will be a featured speaker during the Museum of Science’s celebration of Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month during the weekend of October 14th and 15th, with two full days of fun science and cultural offerings. Hernandez’s talk will be on October 15th at 2:30 PM, and he will discuss his journey in STEM and research in organic electronics.
Programming will include featured speakers, family activities, enlightening live presentations, a special community storytelling event, and Boston-area performances and community groups.
Event website

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Graduate School Fair
2023-10-16 18:00 - 20:00
COE Graduate Admissions is excited to meet students at the Rose-Hulman’s Graduate School Fair! Join us to learn about our graduate engineering programs!

AI Business Leaders Conference
2023-10-18 09:00 - 17:00 | East Village, 17th floor, 360 Huntington Ave, East Village 17th floor, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Hi Everyone! Northeastern’s Institute for Experiential AI is hosting an AI Business Leaders Conference on Wednesday, October 18th from 9am to 5pm! If you are studying AI or Data Science, or interested in learning more about it, join us! There are top industry leaders speaking from companies including Meta, T-Mobile, Fidelity, McDonalds, Verizon, as well as many Northeastern experts. Tickets are usually $200 for in-person attendance, but students have access to the virtual component for FREE using the code STU23VIRT!

VIAS3D Regional Academic Meeting 2023
2023-10-19
The VIAS3D Academia team & Dassault Systems is very excited to invite you to the first New England Regional Academic Meeting on October 19th at Northeastern University in Boston Massachusetts.
Join this academic networking space as a knowledge hub for students and academics.
Exchange ideas and experiences related to technology, updates, and engineering solutions to keep up with and excel within the industry.
Register and receive more information about the free conferences led by VIAS3D and Dassault Systèmes experts, followed by conversations afterparty.

Annual AI Career Fair
2023-10-19 09:00 - 15:00 | Curry Student Center, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA, 02115, United States
The Institute for Experiential AI is hosting its annual career fair on October 19th! Companies including Bose, Travelers Insurance, ODSC, and Verisk will be attending. Registration is FREE and there is an option to upload your resume as well!
Date: Thursday, October 19, 2023
Time: 9 am – 3 pm
Location: Curry Student Center, Indoor Quad

PlusOne Information Session
2023-10-19 18:00 - 19:00
Learn about the PlusOne Accelerated Master’s Degree Program
A master’s degree can provide you an additional level of expertise in an area aligned with your career goals. As a currently enrolled Bachelor of Science (BS) student in the College of Engineering at Northeastern, you have the opportunity to earn a Master of Science degree (MS) in an accelerated time period with the PlusOne program. Once accepted into the program in an approved PlusOne pathway, which is a BS and MS PlusOne combination, you can earn an MS degree with, in most cases, just one extra year of study beyond your undergraduate degree program.
In this virtual information session, College of Engineering undergraduate and graduate academic advisors will provide an overview of the PlusOne program to give you the knowledge and next steps to take advantage of the program if you choose.
What you will learn:

What is PlusOne
Benefits of the program
Eligibility
Co-op considerations
Financial considerations
Selecting your pathway
Academic advising resources
Timeline to apply
The application process
Course registration
Transitioning to graduate school

Mentor Mix & Mingle
2023-10-23 15:00 - 16:30
Whether you and your mentee(s)/mentor(s) have already connected this year, or still need to do so, this is a great moment to connect over snacks and drinks. Please join us on October 23, 2023 from 3-4:30pm. Please check your email for the location.

Baolin Li PhD Proposal Review
2023-10-24 13:00 - 14:00
Title:
Making Machine Learning on HPC Systems Cost-Effective and Carbon-Friendly
Date:
10/24/2023
Time:
1:00:00 PM
Committee Members:
Prof. Devesh Tiwari (Advisor)
Prof. Ningfang Mi
Dr. Vijay Gadepally
Abstract:
The end users want the machine learning (ML) training/inference services to be lightning-fast. However, the cost, incurred by service providers, to support these lighting-fast ML services is often prohibitively high. Large-scale HPC and data centers are struggling to keep their cost low as they provide faster ML services, while the excessive demand for these services is already negatively impacting our environment due to the large carbon footprint of ML services. Therefore, this dissertation focuses on better understanding the complex trade-off among performance, cost, and environmental footprint of ML models.
This dissertation asks three simple questions: (1) Is slower hardware always worse? (2) Is more expensive hardware always better? (3) Should we always strive to design and train ML models with the highest possible accuracy? As this dissertation reveals, the answers to these questions are more complex than what the conventional wisdom suggests. In fact, simplistic answers — based on first-order intuitions — can lead to missed opportunities in terms of performance efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and carbon footprint.
In this dissertation, we build multiple novel frameworks to demonstrate that mixing slower-and-cheaper hardware with faster-and-expensive hardware can unlock much higher performance- and cost-effectiveness than using only faster-and-expensive hardware configurations. But, unlocking this potential requires a careful design — a design that carefully exploits the diversity in ML inference workload characteristics and adapts to varying ML inference request loads. Next, this dissertation demonstrates that while the highest-possible-accuracy ML models are desirable, using such models can have a severe negative environmental impact. To mitigate this challenge, this dissertation builds an experimental framework to reduce the carbon footprint of ML inference services. The key idea, behind this framework, is to mix the lower-quality ML models with higher-quality ML models intelligently and share the hardware resources during inference query execution to reduce the excessive carbon footprint of high-quality ML model inference, esp. during the periods when a data center’s energy source has high carbon intensity. The extensive experimental evaluation confirms that significant carbon emission reductions can be achieved with transient, very minimal, and configurable loss in accuracy.
As we make rapid advances in the era of large-language models (LLMs) and foundation models, the novel methods and open-source tools presented in this dissertation will enable us to build ML services faster but cheaper and in an environmentally sustainable manner

Chemical Engineering Fall Seminar Series: Professor Kevin Van Geem
2023-10-25 12:00 - 13:00 | 010 Behrakis, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Driving Sustainability: Empowering Chemical Engineering for a Net Zero Process Industry
Due to our increasing awareness of the impact of climate change on our society, unit operations in our manufacturing processes, including those in chemical industry, have to be greenified and made less dependent of fossil resources. One option is to use plastic waste or biomass, but this is less straightforward than what is generally believed. Additionally there is so-called electrification of the chemical industry. This is still in its infancy but there are many scientific and technological challenges to be solved. These important but far from trivial energy and materials transitions require not only the introduction of new ways of heat management and other, often not yet fully explored, chemical conversion processes in which green electrons are used, but also the development of new materials including large-scale heating coils, easily chargeable battery systems as well as catalyst materials. For each of these developments, there is the issue of materials scarcity as well as durability as the introduction of these production processes should also be cost effective and overall more sustainable than the existing ones.

Kevin Van Geem is full professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at Ghent University (UGent). He is director of the Center of Sustainable Chemistry and director of the board of the Laboratory for Chemical Technology of Ghent University. He is CTO of CAPTURE, an inter-university platform grouping 100 faculty members of different universities with ambition to accelerate radical technological innovations in the field of sustainable resource recovery. His main research interest is reaction engineering in general, with a focus in particular the transition from fossil to alternative resources such as biomass, CO/CO2 and plastic waste. He is a former Fulbright Research Scholar of MIT and visiting professor at Stanford. He is in charge of the pilot plants for chemical recycling, oxidative coupling of methane, steam cracking, biomass pyrolysis and super dry reforming. He is the author of more than two hundred scientific publications, has 3 patents and he is managing director of his own spin-off company on modelling steam cracking. He is involved in electrification, process intensification, machine learning & data mining, drug design, scale-up and process modelling.

WE23
2023-10-26 - 2023-10-28
Join COE Graduate Admissions at Society of Women Engineers (SWE) WE23 Conference. Find us at the Career Fair and an Admissions representative will be happy to answer your questions about our graduate engineering programs.

SACNAS National Diversity in STEM Conference
2023-10-26 - 2023-10-28
Join COE Graduate Admissions at SACNAS 50th NDiSTEM Conference. Meet us at the Graduate School and Career Expos and an Admissions representative will be happy to answer your questions about our graduate engineering programs.

Florida Atlantic University Graduate and Professional School Fair
2023-10-26 11:00 - 15:00
Calling all Owls! Join COE Graduate Admissions at Florida Atlantic University’s Graduate and Professional School Fair in Boca Raton! Join us to learn about our graduate engineering programs and Northeastern’s newest campus in Miami!

NAI Workshop
2023-10-26 17:00 - 19:00 | Curry Student Center, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Embracing our century-long leadership in experiential education, translational research, and global presence, Northeastern’s chapter of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) serves to empower inventorship and entrepreneurship across the innovation ecosystem by recognizing, inspiring, educating, and connecting, members of the academic and industrial communities.
Please join us for the National Academy of Inventors Northeastern Chapter board meeting.
Special guests include Luis Brito of Beam Therapeutics and Deirdre Saunders of Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds.
Curry Student Center, Room #340

Khoury Fireside Chat with Kashmir Hill
2023-10-27 12:00 - 14:00 | Fenway Center, 77 St. Stephen Street, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Join Khoury Dean Elizabeth Mynatt for a thought-provoking fireside chat on AI with New York Times columnist Kashmir Hill. The event will be held on Friday, October 27 from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. in the Fenway Center and will be moderated by Associate Professor David Choffnes. This event will include insights from Hill, along with a question-and-answer section and a networking reception.
Hill is the author of Your Face Belongs to Us, a national bestseller released last year that tells the story of a “small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforcement, billionaires, and businesses, threatening to end privacy as we know it.”
Registration for the event is required.
Register

Ugur Can Yilmaz PhD Proposal Review
2023-10-27 16:00 - 17:00
Title:
Robust and Computationally Efficient Three-Phase State Estimation for Large-Scaled Unbalanced Power Systems
Date:
10/27/2023
Time:
4:00:00 PM
Committee Members:
Prof. Ali Abur (Advisor)
Prof. Mahshid Amirabadi
Dr. Bilgehan Donmez
Abstract:
Power system monitoring is crucial for ensuring the stability and reliability of electrical grids, allowing for the timely detection of anomalies and potential faults, thus facilitating proactive maintenance and preventing widespread outages. The growing need and interest in real-time monitoring of large distribution networks motivated by the rapid population of renewable sources, EVs etc. demand an accurate, robust and computationally efficient three-phase state estimation framework which is capable of handling unbalanced operation in asymmetrical structured networks.
The challenge common to distribution system state estimation are twofold: (1) while the phase angle of any of the bus voltages can be chosen as the angular reference in the state estimation formulation of positive sequence networks, the same approach does not readily extend to three-phase distribution network state estimation problem and (2) the scalability of the estimation in terms of computational performance for very large-scaled networks is not trivial without compromising the robustness of the estimator. In this study, a novel state estimation formulation will be presented which facilitates correct solution irrespective of the existence of buses with perfectly balanced voltages. The new formulation is general. It yields accurate results in any three-phase power system irrespective of its operating conditions (balanced or highly unbalanced), configuration (isolated microgrid, connected to transmission system, etc.) and whether or not it contains any synchronous generators. Additionally, this research introduces innovative methodologies aimed at enhancing the efficacy of the state estimator for application in distribution networks. It is ensured that the computational efficiency of the estimator remains viable while the robustness is guaranteed, even when dealing with highly extensive power networks using a parallel distributed state estimation framework. At the core of the proposed approach are two partitioning algorithms that enable efficient parallelisation of computations both for radial and meshed networks. All the methodologies have been formulated, implemented, and their effectiveness confirmed through preliminary results employing straightforward test scenarios.

Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference (CSChE 2023)
2023-10-29 16:00 - 18:00
Join Chemical Engineering Graduate Admissions at the Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference (CSChE 2023). Find us at the Graduate Studies & Career Fair, and our Academic Coordinator Cindy Rinear will be happy to answer your questions about our graduate programs.

LGBTQ+ Job Fair
2023-10-30 15:00 - 18:00 | Curry Student Center, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA, 02115, United States
Do you want to join an LGBTQ-inclusive workplace?
The Massachusetts LGBT Chamber of Commerce invites job seekers to attend our next LGBTQ+ Job Fair at Northeastern University’s Curry Student Center.

SHPE 2023 National Convention
2023-11-01 - 2023-11-05
COE Graduate Admissions is excited to attend the SHPE National Convention again this year in Salt Lake City, UT! Learn about our graduate engineering programs available across the U.S. and Canada at the Career Fair & Graduate Expo on November 3rd-4th! Northeastern University will be hosting a Hospitality Suite on November 1st at 7:30pm.

Chemical Engineering Fall Seminar Series: Professor Burcu Gurkan
2023-11-01 12:00 - 13:00 | 010 Behrakis, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, United States
The Significance of the Double Layer Structure of Ionic Liquids and Deep Eutectic Solvents for Electrochemical Processes
Ionic Liquids (ILs) and deep eutectic solvents (DESs) represent concentrated electrolytes with negligible volatility, electrochemical and thermal stability, and nonflammability that are desirable for electrochemical processes. The electrode electrolyte interfacial structure of these electrolytes present unique behavior that impacts the outcomes of electron transfer reactions at the electrode surface. We examined these interfaces and the redox reactions relevant to energy storage and electrocatalysis with a combination of techniques including surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), in-situ UV-Vis spectroscopy, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), neutron reflectivity (NR), and voltammetry. This presentation will highlight the impact of solvation, ionic interactions, surface adsorption, and hydrogen bonding and transfer on interfacial structure, redox reactions, and catalytic mechanisms in particular for CO2 electroreduction.

Prof. Burcu Gurkan is recently promoted to Full Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Case Western Reserve University. Her research focuses on deep eutectic solvents and ionic liquids for applications in separations, energy conversion and storage. She completed her PhD from the University of Notre Dame and postdoctoral trainings at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The University of Akron. She is the recipient of NASA Early Career Faculty, NSF CAREER, and ACS PRF New Investigator awards. She is the Deputy Director of BEES2 (Breakthrough Electrolytes for Energy Storage Systems) – a DOE Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) and a key researcher in 4C (Center for Closing the Carbon Cycle) EFRC. Prof. Gurkan is the past chair of Transport and Energy Processes division of AIChE. She is the 2024 Programming Chair of Energy and Fuels division of ACS and the elected Chair of 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Separation Science. She serves as an Associate Editor of ACS Applied Engineering Materials. (References: Gurkan Group website is https://www.energylab-cwru.com/ and BEES EFRC website is https://engineering.case.edu/research/centers/breakthrough-electrolytes-for-energystorage)

Gordon Institute Virtual Information Session
2023-11-01 17:30 - 18:30
Learn how you can earn a Graduate Certificate in Engineering Leadership as a stand-alone certificate or in combination with one of twenty-three Master of Science degrees offered through Northeastern’s College of Engineering, College of Science, or Khoury College of Computer Sciences.
The National Academy of Engineering recognized The Gordon Institute of Engineering Leadership (GIEL) for its innovative curriculum that combines technical education, leadership capabilities, and the “Challenge Project”: an opportunity for students to receive master’s level credit while working in industry.
By aligning technical proficiency with leadership capabilities, GIEL accelerates the development of high-potential engineers and prepares them to lead complex projects early in their careers. Upon completing the program, more than 88% of the 2022 class reported increased leadership responsibility, while more than 50% of the 2022 class reported being promoted within one year of graduation.
Our Director of Admissions will answer your application questions for Fall 2024.
You will have the opportunity to hear from Alumni on how The Gordon Institute propelled their engineering careers. Program professors will also be present to answer curriculum questions.

Project 9 Showcase: Using Consumer Data To Shape and Scale Public Policy
2023-11-03 13:00 - 15:00
MES/COS/CEE Professor Aron Stubbins will be presenting on our use of sales data to estimate the inputs of plastic packaging into waste streams and the environment. The datasets are cool to play with – daily consumer sales data and home panel data, 3 digit zip code spatial resolution across the US (global data available too), daily temporal resolution, for about decade.
Register here: https://lnkd.in/gtKyr9QJ
Location: 89 Broad Street

Lean Green-Belt certification course
2023-11-03 18:30 - 2023-11-05 13:00
The IISE Lean Green Belt Certification program is coming to Northeastern on November 3rd, 4th, & 5th 2023. This is a great process improvement and project management course that teaches Lean 6S, muda, value stream mapping, point of use, SMED, pull, the eight forms of waste, visual workplace, and other related topics.
This course is open to all majors and skill levels, including alumni! No prerequisites or prior knowledge required.
This certification can provide a tremendous resume boost and increase the likelihood of getting that dream job or co-op.
Learn more at iisenortheastern.org/professional-certifications/

GSE Fall 2023 Wonder Week: Civil and Environmental Engineering
2023-11-06 09:00 - 09:45
Learn about the Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate programs and how you’ll become a prepared professional to address the global, complex, and ever-evolving engineering challenges of our time by building on current department strengths and expanding into vital areas.

GSE Fall Wonder Week: MS Telecommunications & Cyber Physical Systems
2023-11-06 11:00 - 11:45
Learn about the MS in Telecommunication Networks & Cyber-Physical Systems graduate programs and how you’ll become a prepared professional to address complex, and ever-evolving engineering challenges!

GSE Fall 2023 Wonder Week: MSIS, MSIS Bridge, MSSWES, MSDAAM programs
2023-11-07 08:00 - 08:45
Join this webinar to learn about MS Information Systems, MS Information Systems Bridge, MS Data Architecture & Management, and MS Software Engineering Systems. You’ll learn how each of these programs learning opportunities to develop the skills needed to create innovative, practical, and effective solutions that can be easily applied to current professional challenges.

GSE Fall 2023 Wonder Week: Product Development
2023-11-07 09:00 - 09:45
Join this webinar to learn more about the growing demand for Product Development and why it is the key to the success of businesses and the technology sector as it continues to fuel the world economy.

GSE Fall 2023 Wonder Week: Electrical and Computer Engineering
2023-11-07 10:00 - 10:45
Join this webinar to learn more about the Electrical and Computer Engineering graduate program including interdisciplinary research opportunities and a world-renowned co-op program.

STAHY 2023 – 13th International Workshop on Statistical Hydrology (STAHY)
2023-11-08 - 2023-11-10
The International Commission on Statistical Hydrology (ICSH) of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) invites researchers to submit abstracts for presentation at the 13th International Workshop on Statistical Hydrology (STAHY2023), which will be hosted by Northeastern University in Boston, Massaschuetts (USA), from 8-10 November 2023.
The STAHY 2023 workshop brings together the international statistical hydrology community for vibrant scientific discussions and debates on advanced statistical methods for hydrological applications. This year’s theme aims to provide a bridge between the environmental statistics and artificial intelligence communities with methodological discussions, exchange of knowledge, and identification of opportunities for mutual support to solve climate, water, and sustainability issues.
Focusing on the broader scope of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) established by the United Nations in 2015, the theme of the workshop is expected to address several goals but are not limited to Clean Water and Sanitation (SDG 6), Sustainable Cities and Communities (SDG 11), Climate Action (SDG 13), and Life on Land (SDG 15).
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are creating a renaissance for environmental and hydrologic statistics that STAHY 2023 wishes to capture in its theme. For example, machine learning, including the latest generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs), cannot work without probability theory, and similarly nonlinear statistics can benefit from the flexibility offered by neural network processing. Integrating AI technologies with environmental and hydrologic statistics would provide valuable insights for policymakers to devise informed planning and robust water resources management decisions. Similarly, in this era of Big Data and automated decisions, a wide range of statistical theories such as extreme value theory and human-in-the-loop decisions, continue to remain relevant.
We welcome contributions that use machine learning, artificial intelligence, hydrologic statistics and/or environmental statistics and address climate, water, and sustainability issues. Sessions will be arranged by scientific topic and aim to include the diverse ways in which traditional environmental statistics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are applied within these topics.
