Please join faculty, staff, and current students to learn more about graduate programs in the MS in Cyber Physical Systems on March 30 at 8:00 EST. Registration may be found at:  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KiuKTsiLRn2n-vmRlz2m6A A recording will be available for those who are unable to attend.

Please join faculty, staff, and current students to learn more about graduate programs in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department on March 30 at 9:30 EST. Registration may be found at:  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cKfKDbSOQQu63xcwc9y4WA A recording will be available for those who are unable to attend.

ChE Seminar Series Presents: Dr. John A. White, Ph.D Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University Engineering Approaches to Understand Functional Connectivity in Neocortex Abstract The mammalian neocortex is a crowning achievement of evolution. It is astronomically complex, with around 100 billion computational elements, each of which is staggeringly intricate by itself, and on […]

Join GWiSE for our monthly community time on Monday, April 5th at 6 pm EST to play some zoom scattergories and maybe win some prizes! This event will have two winners: $25 for the person with the most points $25 for overall funniest answers (we will vote!). Register on SAIL :)

Join the College of Engineering Global Co-op team in learning about self-developing a global co-op opportunity for Summer II/ Fall 2021. This session will be interactive and the topics discussed will include: Search techniques and global positions in your field What to consider when interested in a global co-op Step by step information for networking and […]

PhD Proposal Review: Distributed Data and Energy Beamforming with Unmanned Vehicles for Wireless IoT : A Systems Perspective Subhramoy Mohanti Location: Teams Meeting Abstract: The pervasive deployment of the wireless Internet of Things (IoT) has given rise to heterogeneous sensors and small form-factor computing devices in homes, offices, public spaces, manufacturing floors, among others. Such […]

ChE Seminar Series Presents: Kristala L. J. Prather, Ph.D. Arthur D. Little Professor, Department Executive Officer, Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT Engineered Autonomous Control of Metabolic Pathways Abstract Microbial systems offer the opportunity to produce a wide variety of chemical compounds in a sustainable fashion. Economical production, however, requires processes that operate with high titer, […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: Visual Navigation Applications in Low Contrast Environments: Multi Sensor Iceberg Mapping Vikrant Shah Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Most approaches to visual navigation make multiple assumptions about the scenes being imaged. There are implicit assumptions about the scene being predominantly static and the availability of well illuminated, texture rich, objects in the scene. […]

ECE Seminar: Reinforcement Learning Perspective to Data-Driven and Model-Based Experimental Design Mahdi Imani Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Design and decision-making are pervasive in most practical systems including smart grids, transportation, manufacturing, healthcare, and smart homes. Accurate system modeling is difficult in most systems/processes due to the complicated system dynamics, multi-physics and multiple time scales involved […]

ChE Seminar Series Presents: Dr. Edward S. Boyden, Ph. D. Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology at MIT Howard Hughes Medical Institute, McGovern Institute Professor, Departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Media Arts and Sciences, and Biological Engineering, MIT Tools for Analyzing and Repairing Biological Systems Abstract Understanding and repairing complex biological systems, such as […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: Leveraging Structural Properties for Large-Scale Optimization Armin Moharrer Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Large scale optimization problems abound in data mining, machine learning, and system design. We address the challenges posed by such large scale optimization problems by providing efficient optimization algorithms. The scope of studied problems is quite broad; it includes applications […]

Join leading Northeastern faculty for a discussion on the important links between the climate crisis and social justice. Energy justice and climate researchers and activists Jennie Stephens, Frances Roberts-Gregory, and Brian Helmuth will lead a conversation about climate justice action and how to effectively connect knowledge to action during these disruptive times. Registration

Mohamed Kante, E’12 Visionary & Chief Nerd iNERDE Inc. Have you ever wondered how to generate great ideas on demand? Are you looking to unleash your creative potential? This tutorial will explore some of the myths about creativity and innovation, and guide you toward a higher level of thinking for your customers and users. By […]

ChE Seminar Series Presents: Dr. Lynden A. Archer Lynden A. Archer, Ph.D Joseph Silbert Dean of the College of Engineering and the James A Friend Family Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Cornell University, Ithaca NY Metal electrodes: the future of cost-effective storage of electrical energy Abstract The levelized cost of electric power generated […]

Join the College of Engineering Global Co-op team in learning about self-developing a global co-op opportunity for Summer II/ Fall 2021. This session will be interactive and the topics discussed will include: Search techniques and global positions in your field What to consider when interested in a global co-op Step by step information for networking and […]

Date:  Thursday, April 15th Time:  6:00pm – 7:30pm, including Q&A  Register Now Engineers and data scientists work with large amounts of data in various formats such as sensor, image, video, telemetry, databases, and more. They use machine learning to find patterns in data and build models that predict future outcomes based on historical data. In […]

Join ADSE for a graduate student virtual trivia night on April 15th from 6:00-8:00 pm and help us support a local Black-owned business! Form a team of up to 4 members and answer a total of 30 questions on variable topics. 1st place: $25 to each team member 2nd place: $20 to each team member […]

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 […]

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 […]

MS Thesis Defense: Variation is the Norm: Brain State Dynamics Evoked By Emotional Video Clips Ashutosh Singh Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Past affective neuroscience studies have attempted to identify a “biomarker” or consistent pattern of brain activity (as measured externally using, for instance, fMRI) to indicate the presence of a single pre-defined category of emotion […]

MS Thesis Defense: GPUBLQMR: GPU-Accelerated Sparse Block Quasi-Minimum Residual Linear Solver Rubens Lacouture Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Solutions of linear systems of equations is the central point of many scientific and engineering research problems across a variety of domains. In many cases, the solution of linear systems can even take most of the simulation time […]

MS Thesis Defense: A Framework for Denoising Two and Three-dimensional Monte CarloPhoton Transport Simulations Using Convolutional Neural Networks Matin Raayai Ardakani Location: Zoom Link Abstract: The Monte Carlo (MC) method is considered to be the gold standard for modeling light propagation inside turbid media, proving superior to other Radiative Transfer Equation (RTE) solvers relying on […]

MS Thesis Defense: Optimizations of Caching Networks: Fairness and Application to Mobile Networks Yuezhou Liu Location: Zoom Link Abstract: In-network caching is playing a more and more important role in today's network architectures, because of the explosive growth of data traffic due to the proliferation of mobile devices and demands for high-volume media content, as […]

MS Thesis Defense: Design of a Thruster-assisted Bipedal Robot Peter Kelly Location: Zoom Link Abstract: During the past few years, legged robot technology has been rapidly advancing. However, even the most advanced bipedal legged robots are susceptible to strong disturbances and slippery or impassible terrain. By introducing thrusters to enable hybrid legged-aerial locomotion, these problems […]

MS Thesis Defense: A novel simple power analysis (SPA) attack on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Tianhong Xu Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), as a widely used public-key cryptography, is vulnerable to simple power analysis(SPA) attacks. There are many countermeasures against simple power analysis(SPA) attacks on ECC implementation, the Always-add algorithm is one […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: Physical Layer Security in Multi-User Wireless Networks: Impact of Interference and Artificial Noise on Large-Scale Analysis Seyedmehdi Sadeghzadeh Location: Zoom Link Abstract: In this thesis, we study the physical layer security in downlink multi-user wireless networks. Traditionally, security has been addressed by cryptography at the higher layers of the communication stack. Security […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: Correlation Discovery for Multi-view and Multi-label Learning Lichen Wang Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Correlation indicates the interactions or connections across different instances. It exists in a wide range of real-world applications such as social network, scene understanding, and time-series data analysis. Correlation provides the unique and informative knowledge to reveal the connections […]

MS Thesis Defense: A soft-switching non-inverting buck-boost converter Anran Wei Location: Zoom Link Abstract: There are numerous applications in which DC-DC converters with wide range of voltage gain are required. Non-inverting buck-boost converter is a classical topology that can provide wide range of voltage conversion and bidirectional power transfer; thus, it is frequently used in […]

University Distinguished Professor Vincent Harris is presenting "Rare Earth Element-Based Magnets: Science, Supply and Sustainability in 2021 and Beyond" as part of the Jefferson Science Fellowship Program of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering. Registration is required in advance of the lecture: Register here Rare earth elements (REEs) and their supply chain have become […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: Modular Plug-and-Play Photovoltaic Subpanel System Yue Zheng Location: Zoom Link Abstract: This thesis designs, builds and tests plug-and-play photovoltaic (PV) panels. A prototype modular PV system is built consisting of a dozen small PV units that can slide in and out of a mechanical frame without impacting other units. Each unit contains […]

NE GWiSE is excited to announce the sixth seminar in our "Building Inclusive Communities" 2020-21 virtual series, which will take place on Tuesday, April 27th from 6:00-7:30pm. This month's speaker, Dr. Adriana Bankston, is a Principal Legislative Analyst in the University of California (UC) Office of Federal Governmental Relations, where she serves as an advocate for […]

Join the Graduate School of Engineering for a Women in Engineering Webinar that will take place on April 29th at 9:00AM EST. Please find the registration link below. A recording will be available to those who are unable to attend. Join link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4ij5_t78QSyEJxC9VPiK6Q

Join Dr. Ivonne M. García, Chief DEI Officer at the College of Wooster, for a seminar & workshop that will cover culturally responsive teaching strategies with respect to multilingual learners, and then delve into antiracism as defined by Ibram X. Kendi and the practices that we as educators can incorporate into our classes and our departments. […]

We cordially invite you to join the DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SERIES IN ROBOTICS Thursday, April 29, 12:00 – 1:30pm Virtual Meeting – Zoom Link | Meeting ID: 928 6786 9946 | Passcode: 103234 https://northeastern.zoom.us/j/92867869946?pwd=VTA5R1EwRmZKUjdSeHRpYXpVM09Kdz09 Manual Skills and Dexterity in Robots and Humans Aude Billard Professor of Robotics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland Part 1: […]