January 7: IEM-sponsored virtual event: Last Minute Questions Before Your Arrival 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.

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University is pleased to present to you the second installment in our Graduate Programs in Civil and Environmental Engineering Webinar Series. This webinar, titled Emerging Fields in Civil and Environmental Engineering, will provide you with a deep-dive led by our professors into our MS in Engineering and Public Policy, MS in Sustainable […]

You are invited to a live chat for all graduate engineering programs at Northeastern University! This is designed for prospective students to ask any questions they may have including the application process, coursework, student life, and more! This chat will be moderated by current student ambassadors and is hosted on the Unibuddy platform.

PhD Proposal Review: Metamaterial Absorbers for Infrared Sensing Microsystems Sungho Kang Location: Zoom Abstract: Infrared (IR) spectroscopic sensing has become a key technique in multidisciplinary environments such as military applications, industrial safety control, and smart homes, by providing an accurate and non-disruptive analysis of the target objects. Recently the demand for high performance and compact […]

PhD Proposal Review: Robust Processing against Interferences in GNSS Navigation Haoqing Li Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Satellite-based navigation is prevalent as positioning applications among our lives, how-ever, this high reliance brings potential threats when different interferences and jamming signals are considered. Jamming devices, although illegal in many countries, can be easily to get. Those devices […]

Location: Zoom Link Seminar Title: Sensing the Physical World using Pervasive Wireless Infrastructure Abstract: The promise of IoT and emerging applications such as smart cities, autonomous vehicles, and mixed reality that are tightly coupled with the physical environment pushes the demand for high-fidelity sensing. Meanwhile, we are also seeing advances in wireless technologies such as […]

Luca Caracoglia Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA lucac@coe.neu.edu   Date: Friday January 15th, 2:30-4:30 pm (CET), 8:30-10:30am (EST) Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3a864f3dfe8993442ca116fe24bd231662%40thread.tacv2/1610092407076?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%226e6ade15-296c-4224-ac58-1c8ec2fd53a8%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%226d036117-bf26-4ee2-95fa-124ff7fb3f76%22%7d Abstract: This presentation will review recent study activities examining the response of slender, vertical structures under the effects of destructive wind loads. These large-period, low-damping structures are sensitive to […]

PhD Proposal Review: Software-Defined Wireless Networking for 5G and Beyond: From Indoor Cells to Distributed Aerial Swarms Lorenzo Bertizzolo Location: MS Teams Link Abstract: While Software-defined Networking is a consolidated and widely adopted concept in fixed infrastructure, its adoption to the wireless domain has been limited by some fundamental challenges. Different from wired deployments, wireless […]

Seminar Title: Robot Learning from Demonstrations for Human-Robot Synergy Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Imagine a world where robots support and assist us in our everyday professional and personal life. To achieve a successful Human-Robot Synergy, robots will need to learn new tasks from humans seamlessly, to act on the new knowledge, and easily adapt to […]

18 billion pounds of plastic enter our oceans each year, a harrowing fact that only accounts for a portion of our planet's pollution crisis. Northeastern innovators are tackling this problem to create sustainable solutions for cleaner oceans. Bureo Inc, an emerging B-Corp, has created a program to recycle fishing nets into a NetPlus™ material, used […]

Seminar Title: IoT: An Enabling Technology for Designing Better Cities Location: Zoom Link Abstract:  IoT is rapidly evolving into an enabling technology with countless potential applications. In this seminar, we will explore how IoT technology can help in the design of better cities, starting from the re-design of city systems and infrastructures (mobility, power grid, […]

Seminar Title: Research Background and Experience in Medical Robotics,Human-Robot Interaction, and Collaborative/Assistive Devices Location: Zoom Link Abstract: In this talk, Mojtaba Sharifi will go over the research projects he has done in the field of Medical Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), and Collaborative/Assistive Robotics during the past ten years. His presentation is organized in three sections, which cover his research achievements chronologically from his MSc to […]

This year's theme is "Moving the Dream Forward" in honor and celebration of MLK Day (1/18). Registration is currently live. We are trying to reach current and new graduate students (those starting Winter/Spring '21), faculty, staff, and alumni within the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) community to be apart of this amazing event. […]

Seminar Title: Challenges and opportunities in design in tunable, soft mechanical sensors. Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Physically-soft mechanical sensors are poised to unlock exciting new applications in wearable devices, robotics, and human-machine interfaces. Typically with these sensors, tuning their properties through the device geometry is a challenge. A promising development in soft mechanical sensors is hierarchically-patterned structures within the […]

Seminar Title: The Coming Together of Silicon Circuits and AI for Next Generation Wireless Communications, IOT, and Quantum Applications Location: Zoom Link Abstract: The ubiquity of silicon-based devices around us have paved the way for fast communications, personalized healthcare, and terabits/sec computing unthinkable few decades ago. The question of what's next for silicon-based circuits and […]

Seminar Title: 2D Materials For Next-Generation Information Technology: From Functional Material Miniaturization To Energy-Efficient Phase Engineering Location: Zoom Link Abstract: The emergence of artificial intelligence and 5G technology is transforming our world with novel applications such as the Internet of Things, smart manufacturing, and AI-empowered medical care. However, this information revolution sets a massive demand for […]

Please join us for our first AIX Seminar. Location: Zoom Link Seminar 1 title: Allostasis and Interoception: Brain-Body Interactions and Implications for Robotics Speakers: Dr. Karen Quigley, Northeastern University, and Dr. Erin Reilly, Veteran Affairs Abstract: For much of the history of psychology, sensation, perception, action, emotion, and cognition were studied as if they were […]

Graduate Women in Science and Engineering is hosting CommuniTEA time on Thursday, 1/29 at 11 AM EST. Come chit chat with us and sip on your favorite mid-morning beverage. Join the virtual sipping circle at bit.ly/gwisetea. See you there! Join our email list at bit.ly/GWISEJoin and our MS Teams at bit.ly/GWISETeam

Seminar Title: Toward predictive simulation of human movement – for assistive devices and rehabilitation treatment  Location: Zoom Link Abstract: I will present my research towards predictive simulations of human movement for assistive devices and rehabilitation treatment. First, I will talk about a neuromechanical control model based on simple reflexes. The model can generate diverse locomotion behaviors, […]

Seminar Title: Advancing Quantum Information Science With Hybrid Cavity Magnonics Location: Zoom Link Abstract: With recent demonstration of quantum computers and quantum communication, quantum technologies have started to change our world in an unprecedented way. To fully explore the power of quantum information science and technology, it is critical to further combine discrete quantum elements […]

Seminar Title: Coherent Information Processing with Onchip Hybrid Magnonics Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Hybrid dynamic systems have recently attracted great attention due to their applications in quantum computing, communications, and sensing. In particular, they provide a new paradigm for combining platforms and devices that can perform different tasks such as storing, processing, and transmitting coherent states. In […]

PhD Proposal Review: SpatioTemporal Prediction of Object Handover for Human Robot Collaboration Sadjad Asghari Esfeden Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Predicting human behaviour in video is one of the challenging problems in computer vision. In order for robots to be able to interact with humans they need to understand human intent. We study the problem of […]