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Aug 07, 2026
Opportunities and Avenues: Colin Gallagher’s Path Through Chemical Engineering
Colin Gallagher, PhD ’27, chemical engineering, works in the Qing Zhao Lab using computer modeling to better understand how certain materials can accelerate or improve chemical reactions. With the support of Northeastern faculty and resources—and his own dedication—Gallagher is well positioned to make a lasting contribution to the field in whatever role he pursues after completing his PhD.
Aug 06, 2026
Northeastern’s Ahmed Busnaina Named 2026 NextFlex Fellow
Ahmed Busnaina, Distinguished University Professor at Northeastern University and director of the Advanced Nanomanufacturing Cluster for Smart Sensors and Materials, has been named a 2026 NextFlex Fellow. He was inducted alongside three other honorees during NextFlex’s annual recognition ceremony at the 2026 Innovation Day event.
Aug 06, 2026
Understanding What Causes Autonomous AI Systems to Misbehave
ECE Assistant Professor Lili Su explains that recent incidents of autonomous AI systems acting out of bounds stem from training gaps and human configuration errors rather than malicious intent.
Aug 06, 2026
Student Engineering Team Builds Custom Off Road Vehicle for National Competitions
Northeastern University’s Baja SAE student club designs and builds a custom off-road vehicle from scratch each year to test its performance in grueling multi-day national engineering competitions.
Aug 06, 2026
Two Northeastern Faculty Named 2027 AMS Fellows
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) announced its 2027 honorees across a variety of weather, climate, and water research areas, including the Class of 2027 AMS Fellows. This year, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s College of Engineering Distinguished Professors Auroop Ganguly and Yang Zhang were both inducted as AMS Fellows.
Aug 06, 2026
Optimizing Marine Sensors to Capture Detailed Ocean Data Efficiently
ECE Associate Professor Milad Siami, in collaboration with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), is leading a $612,062 NSF grant for “Energy-Aware Deployment and Scheduling for Sparse Ocean Sensor Networks.”
Aug 06, 2026
Northeastern helps lead $15M Army-funded center for next-generation sensing and communications
Josep M. Jornet and Tommaso Melodia, co-director and director of the Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems (INSI) at Northeastern University and faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, are co-principal investigators on a new $15 million research center funded by the Army Research Office to advance secure sensing, imaging and wireless communications.
Aug 05, 2026
Patent for Innovative System to Boost Speed and Efficiency in Quantum Computing
ECE Assistant Professor Xufeng Zhang was awarded a patent for “Slow-wave hybrid magnonics based on interacting magnons and spoof surface plasmon polaritons.”