MS Thesis Defense: Design and Characterization of Flexible Neural Interface Connector for Large-scale Neuronal Recording Shanchuan Liang Location: Zoom Link Abstract: With the increasing demand of the electrically active implantable devices for studying neuroscience, microelectrode arrays (MEAs) have been widely developed to measure extracellular neuronal activity. Multiple channels MEAs with electrodes embedded are designed to […]
ChE Seminar Series Presents: Dr. Matthew Lee Matthew Lee, PhD Teaching Professor of Human Services Northeastern University Creating Inclusive Spaces in the Curriculum to Improve the Classroom Climate Abstract: In this Distinguished Lecture, Professor Matthew Lee, PhD, from the Human Services Program at Northeastern, will discuss his life, career, and lifelong commitment to equity and […]
PhD Dissertation Defense: Robust Visual Learning with Limited Labels Kai Li Location: Zoom Link Abstract: The recent flourish of deep learning in various tasks is largely credited to the rich and accessible labeled data. Nonetheless, massive supervision remains a luxury for many real-world applications: It is costly and time-consuming to collect and annotate a large […]
First-year engineering students showcase their success at Northeastern's Friday Fun Lab! Play interactive electronic games that were designed and built by the Cornerstone of Engineering students. All games are designed with COVID safety protocol in mind, so stop by and check out these amazing projects today!
MS Thesis Defense: Real-Time Grasp Type Estimation for a Robotic Prosthetic Hand Mehrshad Zandigohar Location: Zoom Link Abstract: For lower arm amputees, prosthetic hands promise to restore most of physical interaction capabilities. This requires to accurately predict hand gestures capable of grabbing varying objects and execute them timely as intended by the user. Current approaches […]
PhD Dissertation Defense: Improving the Resilience of the Power Grid Ahmet Oner Location: Teams Meeting Abstract: The power grid constitutes one of the most critical infrastructures that have significant interdependencies with various others such as communication, transportation, emergency, and health-care delivery systems. A disruption in the operation of the power grid may affect the operation […]
MS Thesis Defense: Rough-Terrain Locomotion and Unilateral Contact Force Regulations With a Multi-Modal Legged Robot Kaier Liang Location: Zoom Link Abstract: The study for legged locomotion has made lots of achievements. However, the stability of the state-of-the-art bipedal robots are still vulnerable to external perturbation, cannot negotiate extreme rough terrains, and cannot directly regulate unilateral […]
PhD Dissertation Defense: Spectral Ranking Regression Ilkay Yildiz Location: Zoom Link Abstract: We consider learning from ranking labels generated as follows: given a query set of samples in a dataset, a labeler ranks the samples w.r.t.~her preference. Such ranking labels scale exponentially with query set size; most importantly, in practice, they often exhibit lower variance […]
MS Thesis Defense: LiDAR with a Silicon Photomultiplier for Applications in Adverse Weather Danton Zhao Location: Zoom Link Abstract: As Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) integration becomes more widespread in the field of remote sensing for autonomous navigation, the impact of degraded visual environments will quickly need to be addressed. The particles responsible for the […]
MS Thesis Defense: Supervised Classification on Deep Neural Network Attack Toolchains Yize Li Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Deep learning, while an important machine learning technique, is susceptible to adversarial example attacks. Adversarial examples generated by adding perturbations on clean images/video frames can lead to mis-predictions of deep neural networks. Moreover, deep learning/machine learning can be […]