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: […]

Please consider joining the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering for this seminar on sustainable urban travel. ABSTRACT: Cycling is the most sustainable means of urban travel, practical for most short- and medium-distance trips—commuting to and from work and school, shopping, visiting friends—as well as for recreation and exercise. Cycling promotes physical, social, and mental […]

Faculty Seminar: Is temporal interference the key to noninvasive deep brain stimulation? Answers from simulation studies in mice and humans. Sumientra Rampersad Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Transcranial current stimulation (tCS) has been used for two decades to noninvasively investigate and influence brain function in both healthy volunteers and clinical populations. While many positive effects have […]

Join the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the PROTECT Center for a seminar with the EPA's Dr. Kiran Alapaty, who will deliver a talk titled "Urban-scale Measurements and Modeling Fate & Transport of PFAS Across Media." Seminar Abstract: Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) have gained attention due to their adverse health effects as […]

PhD Proposal Review: Towards Robust and Secure Deep Learning Models and Beyond Siyue Wang Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Modern science and technology witness the breakthroughs made by deep learning during the past decades. Fueled by rapid improvements of computational resources, learning algorithms, and massive amount of data, deep neural networks (DNNs) have played a dominant […]

MS Thesis Defense titled DeepSense: Fast Wideband Spectrum Sensing Through Real-Time In-the-Loop Deep Learning Daniel Uvaydov Location: Microsoft Teams Abstract: Spectrum sharing will be a key technology to tackle spectrum scarcity in the sub-6 GHz bands. To fairly access the shared bandwidth, wireless users will necessarily need to quickly sense large portions of spectrum and […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: High-performance Translation Layers for Cloud Immutable Storage Mohammad Hossein Hajkazemi Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Most storage interfaces support in-place updates: blocks can be rewritten, files can be modified at byte granularity, fields may be updated in database table rows. Yet internally these layers often rely on out-of-place (immutable) writes. In some cases, […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: Visual Learning with Limited Supervision Kunpeng Li Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Deep learning models have achieved remarkable success in many computer vision tasks. However, they typically rely on large amounts of carefully labeled training data whose annotating process is usually expensive, time-consuming and even infeasible when considering the task complexity and scarcity […]

NanoSI 2021 Annual Workshop on Nano Systems Innovation Thursday, May 27th, 2021 Registration: Zoom Link Location: Once registered, a Zoom Link will be available. Description: The goal of the Northeastern SMART Annual Workshop on Nano Systems Innovation (NanoSI 2021) is to bring together researchers, government and industry to discuss new strategies to address the growing […]

PhD Proposal Review: RFICs for Biomedical Magnetic and Magnetoelectric Microsystems Mehdi Nasrollahpourmotlaghzanjani Location: Zoom Links Abstract: Design and analysis of the advanced biomedical circuit and systems in wide variety of applications has emerged a significant interest. Not only in different engineering disciplines, but also in a variety of applications such as neuroscience, COVID-19, etc. In […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: Learning from Spatio-Temporal Data with Applications in Climate Science Yumin Liu Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Climate change is one of the major challenges to human beings and many other species in our time. In the recent decade, the number of disasters related to climate change such as wildfires, storms, floods and droughts […]