News
May 06, 2026
New Project Combines Biology, Music, and Math to Display Limb Regeneration
A project named “Morphogenesis,” led by Garret Compston and MIE/BioE Professor Sandra Shefelbine, uses Alan Turing’s pattern with musical representation to portray the biological process behind how individual cells, tissues and organs develop their specific shapes and structures when the embryo is still developing.
May 05, 2026
Closas to Serve as General Co-Chair at NAVICON 2026
ECE Associate Professor Pau Closas will serve as the general co-chair of the organizing committee for the inaugural IEEE Navigation Conference (NAVICON 2026), which will be held in Munich, Germany, from December 9 to 11, 2026.
May 05, 2026
Minkara Named 2026 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar
BioE Assistant Professor Mona Minkara was one of seventeen named a 2026 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation for her work in decoding the molecular logic of innate immune recognition.
May 05, 2026
New Guidelines Aim to Make Technology Research More Accessible and Easier to Verify
ECE Professor Miriam Leeser and her co-authors examine the evolution of research transparency in their editorial, “Artifact Evaluation in the FPGA Community and in ACM TRETS,” published in ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems.
May 05, 2026
Groundbreaking Research on MIMO Wireless Networks
ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia received the 2026 IEEE INFOCOM Best Paper Award for his research on “BANDWEAVE: Enhanced Channel Estimation in MIMO Networks with Multi-Band Fusion,” which highlights his groundbreaking research on MIMO wireless networks.
May 05, 2026
Tiwari Receives 2026 ISC Jack Dongarra Early Career Award
ECE Associate Professor Devesh Tiwari was selected to receive the 2026 ISC Jack Dongarra Early Career Award for his groundbreaking research in sustainable HPC and hybrid quantum-classical systems.
May 05, 2026
Free and Fair Internet Access for All
Ali Saeizadeh, PhD’27, is a graduate research assistant in electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern’s Institute of Intelligent Networked Systems, where he builds “digital twin” simulations of 5G and 6G telecommunications networks. His work aims at something ambitious: making free and fair internet access a reality for people around the world. Before completing his degree, he plans to intern at Apple and a smaller tech firm to compare perspectives across an industry he hopes to shape.
May 05, 2026
A Chemical Engineering PhD Student’s Evolution Through LEADERs
Natesan Mani, PhD, chemical engineering, reflects on how the courses from the LEADERs Program impacted his professional development, preparing him for his internship at Amgen. These experiences enriched his research skillset and opened doors to opportunities and paths he had never seen before.