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 […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: Software-Defined Wireless Networking for 5G and Beyond: From Indoor Cells to Non-Terrestrial UAV Networks Lorenzo Bertizzolo Location: Microsoft Teams Abstract: While Software-defined Networking (SDN) is a consolidated and widely adopted concept in fixed infrastructure, its adoption to the wireless domain has been limited by some fundamental challenges. Unlike traditional fixed infrastructure, which […]

Join the Institute for Chemical Imaging of Living Systems for an informational seminar on the Bruker BioSpec 3T MRI machine. The seminar will cover how preclinical MR offers longitudinal observation/measurement of disease processes an overview of components and process for preclinical MR review of methods and data obtained in preclinical MR Following the talk, Kristine […]

PhD Proposal Review: Automated Bayesian Network Exploration for Nuisance-Robust Inference Andac Demir Location: Zoom Link Abstract: A fundamental challenge in the analysis of physiological signals is learning useful features that are robust to nuisance factors e.g., inter-subject & inter-session variability, and achieve the highest nuisance-invariant classification performance. Towards resolving this problem, we introduce 2 frameworks: […]

PhD Proposal Review: Ferroelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers for Intra-body and In-memory Sensing Applications Bernard Herrera Location: Teams Abstract: Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers (PMUTs) are Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) devices that have become an established technology in applications such as range-finding, fingerprint sensing and imaging due to their capability of ultrasonic transduction in a miniaturized footprint, […]

Are you joining a new research area that you are not familiar with and don't know how to get started? Or perhaps you are writing an introduction section to your dissertation or fellowship proposal and need help? Join the Northeastern COE CommLab for the next workshop in the Research Dissemination Series. We will discuss the […]

PhD Proposal Review: Human Strategies in the Control of Complex Objects: A Task-Dynamic Approach with Clinical Applications Rashida Nayeem Location: Zoom Link Passcode: 247537 Abstract: Functional interaction with objects - tool use - is essential in daily living and is regarded as the foundation of our evolutionary advantage. Humans effortlessly interact with a variety of […]

This session will cover interconnected nature of autonomous vehicles on land, underwater, and in the air. Using examples from research at Northeastern, it explores the interconnections of systems design, application-driven robotics, and the fundamental algorithms associated with simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), machine learning (ML), and computer vision and imaging as it applies to a […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: Integrated RF Devices Based on Magnetoelectric Coupling Huaihao Chen Location: Zoom Meeting Abstract: The magnetoelectric (ME) coupling effect is a coupling behavior between the magnetic properties and electric properties in a single-phase crystal or a composite structure. At present, ME composite is more widely used in practical application than the single-phase crystal […]

You’ve created something interesting and exciting in the lab, published a few papers and maybe filed some patents and are wondering what to do next. Mike Fuerstman and Becky Wilson of Rhapsody Venture Partners will walk through questions you should be asking and answering about your technology and your objectives to figure out the best path forward […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: 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: The Perils of Shared Computing: A Hardware Security Perspective Majid Sabbagh Location: Microsoft Teams Link Abstract: Modern processors and hardware accelerators, in the cloud or on the edge, are capable of running multiple workloads from different users concurrently. Despite software techniques for security such as virtualization and containers, a new attack surface […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: Fractional Order Derivative in Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing with Specific Application to Seizure Detection Ala Tokhmpash Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Epilepsy is a chronic brain disease that affects around 50 million people worldwide. This disease is characterized by recurrent seizures, which are brief episodes of involuntary movement that may involve a […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: Enhancing Monte Carlo Light Modeling Methods for the Development of Near-infrared Based Brain Techniques Yaoshen Yuan Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Studying light propagation in biological tissues is critical for developing biophotonics techniques and its applications. Monte Carlo (MC) method, a stochastic solver for radiative transfer equation, has been recognized as the gold […]

PhD Dissertation Defense: RF Magnetoelectric Microsystems Xianfeng Liang Location: Zoom Link Abstract: Multiferroic materials are the materials that inherently exhibit two or more ferroic properties, such as ferroelectricity, ferromagnetism and ferroelasticity, etc. Magnetoelectric (ME) materials with coupled magnetization and electric polarization have attracted intense interests recently due to the realization of strong ME coupling and […]