December 1: IEM-sponsored virtual event: Talk to a Regional Campus Advisor: Seattle + Silicon Valley Admitted Students 9:00 PM EST Join link: This event will be run via Unibuddy. Connect with our ambassadors + learn the platform here. Audience: All admits for Spring, 2021 including deferrals from a previous term.

December 2: IEM-sponsored virtual event: Discussion: Spring Semester, What to Expect? 8:00 AM EST Join link: This event will be run via Unibuddy. Connect with our ambassadors + learn the platform here. Audience: All admits for Spring, 2021 including deferrals from a previous term.

PhD Dissertation Defense: Ceramic Magnetic Wires at Wireless Communication Frequencies Leili Hayati Location: Online Abstract: Ferrite magnetic devices play an important role in modern wireless telecommunication systems. They generally require permanent magnets in order to magnetically polarize the ferrite material component used in these devices. The permanent magnets are bulky and take up most of […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: Topology Error Detection in Power System State Estimation Bilgehan Donmez Location: Teams Link Abstract: Growth of renewable energy, changes in weather patterns, and increases in cyber- and physical-attacks are examples of recent challenges in power system operation. To keep up with these rapid transformations, it is imperative to improve the tools used […]

December 3: IEM-sponsored virtual event: OGS + Visa Compliance 8:00 AM EST Join link: This event will be run via Unibuddy. Connect with our ambassadors + learn the platform here. Audience: All admits for Spring, 2021 including deferrals from a previous term.

Join ADSE for a graduate student virtual trivia night on December 3rd from 6:00-8:00 pm and help us support a local Black-owned business as well as raise money for the Read in Color program from Little Free Library! Form a team of up to 4 members and answer a total of 30 questions on variable […]

MS Thesis Defense: Real-Time Object Detection on Mobile Devices via Compression-Compilation Co-Design Yuxuan Cai Location: Zoom Link Abstract: The rapid development and wide utilization of object detection techniques have aroused attention on both accuracy and speed of object detectors. However, the current state-of-the- art object detection works are either accuracy-oriented using a large model but […]

December 7: IEM-sponsored virtual event: About Hybrid NU-Flex 8:00 AM EST Join link: This event will be run via Unibuddy. Connect with our ambassadors + learn the platform here. Audience: All admits for Spring, 2021 including deferrals from a previous term.

PhD Proposal Review: Improving the Virtual Memory Efficiency of GPUs Trinayan Baruah Location: Zoom Link Abstract: GPUs have been adopted widely based their ability to exploit data-level parallelism found in modern-day applications, ranging from high performance computing to machine learning. This widespread adoption has, in part, been accelerated by the development of more intuitive high-level […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: Remotely Rechargeable Embedded Platforms for Next Generation IoT Systems in Critical Environments Raffaele Guida Location: Teams Meeting Abstract: In the near future, a new generation of miniaturized, multi-function and smart wireless devices for Internet of Things (IoT) systems, designed for real-time monitoring and with real-time reconfiguration will be deployed in critical and […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: Platform-specific Model Compression for Deep Neural Networks with Joint Methods Sheng Lin Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Deep learning has delivered its powerfulness in many application domains, especially in computer vision, natural language processing and speech recognition. As the backbone of deep learning, deep neural networks (DNNs) consist of multiple layers of various […]

ChE Seminar Series Presents: Arumugam Manthiram | Professor Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering Materials Science and Engineering Program & Texas Materials Institute Near-term and Long-term Perspectives of Battery Technologies Abstract: A widespread adoption of battery technologies for electric vehicles and grid electricity storage of renewable energies requires optimization of cost, […]

December 10: IEM-sponsored virtual event: 10 Questions to Ask Your College, including College of Engineering staff 8:00 AM EST Join link: This event will be run via Unibuddy. Connect with our ambassadors + learn the platform here. Audience: All admits for Spring, 2021 including deferrals from a previous term.

PhD Dissertation Defense: Remote Monitoring of Multiple Ships over Instantaneous Continental-shelf Scale Region with a Large-aperture Coherent Hydrophone Array Chenyang Zhu Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Multiple mechanized ocean vessels, including both surface ships and submerged vehicles, can be simultaneously monitored over instantaneous continental-shelf scale regions >10,000 km 2 via passive ocean acoustic waveguide remote sensing. […]

MS Thesis Defense: Exploring Effectiveness of Naive Spatio-Temporal Exploits for Depth Completion Xinan Huang Location: Zoom Link Abstract: With an increasing need for usable depth for autonomous navigation systems such as self-driving cars, depth completion is becoming an increasingly studied subject. RGB data provide much-needed aid in providing good recreation of dense depth maps from […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: Development of Magnetodielectric Materials with Low Loss and High Snoek’s Product for Microwave Applications Qifan Li Location: Teams Link Abstract: Exhibiting both relative magnetic permeability and electric permittivity greater than unity, magnetodielectric materials have been attracting great attention in both academia and industry for next-generation communication, sensing, and radar applications. It is […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: Real-World Applicable Deep Learning Techniques: From Efficient Modeling to Automated Model Optimization Ning Liu Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Recently, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely studied and achieved tremendous success in a variety of real-world applications, such as computer vision, medical diagnosis and machine translation. Deep reinforcement learning (DRL), as an […]

December 14: IEM-sponsored virtual event: About Hybrid NU-Flex 8:00 AM EST Join link: This event will be run via Unibuddy. Connect with our ambassadors + learn the platform here. Audience: All admits for Spring, 2021 including deferrals from a previous term.

As you consider pursuing graduate school, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University would like to invite you to the first in our new Graduate Programs in Civil and Environmental Engineering Webinar Series. This first webinar will provide you an overview of research and funding opportunities with our department, as well as how our interdisciplinary programs are […]

PhD Proposal Review: Design, Modeling and Operation of Plasmonic Devices for Smart Communication Systems in the Terahertz Band Arjun Singh Location: Teams Link Abstract: The terahertz (THz) band is an attractive spectral resource for future communication systems, for supporting very high-speed data rates and increasingly dense networks. However, the lack of a well-developed technology that […]

Join Graduate Women in Science and Engineering for some DIY Paper Snowflakes on 12/15 at 7 PM! All you need is paper and scissors! Here is the link to the MS Teams meeting.

You're invited to learning more about the Graduate Cooperative Education program in the College of Engineering. The webinar will feature a talk by Assistant Dean of Co-op, Lorraine Mountain. Cooperative education has been a historical strength of Northeastern University’s experiential learning brand. Each year students at every level and on every campus location participate in […]

MS Thesis Defense: Allocating One Common Accelerator-Rich Platform for Many Streaming Applications Jinghan Zhang Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Many demanding streaming applications share functional and structural similarities with other applications in their respective domain, e.g. video analytics, software-defined radio, and radar. This opens the opportunity for specialization (e.g. heterogeneous computing) to achieve the needed efficiency […]

PhD Proposal Review: The perils of shared computing: A hardware security perspective Majid Sabbagh Location: Teams Link Abstract: The enormous computation power of modern processors and accelerators has rendered them shared computing resources for multiple users and applications, both in the cloud and on the edge. Despite software techniques for security such as virtualization and […]

December 17: IEM-sponsored virtual event: Is It Safe to Return to Campus? 8:00 AM EST Join link: This event will be run via Unibuddy. Connect with our ambassadors + learn the platform here. Audience: All admits for Spring, 2021 including deferrals from a previous term.

PhD Proposal Review: Towards Empirical Implementation and Theoretical Analysis in Adversarial Machine Learning Kaidi Xu Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Deep learning or deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved extraordinary performance in many application domains such as image classification, object detection and recognition, natural language processing and medical image analysis. It has been well accepted that […]

Join the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department Graduate Students for a Game Night! 12/18 @ 6 PM on Zoom. Our plan is to have three breakout rooms of games including trivia, scribble, and among us. Members of GSC will be in the lobby chatting and coordinating break out rooms. Come hang & play with us!