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Jul 25, 2024
Zheng Wins 2024 Raymond Viskanta Award
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng is the recipient of the 2024 Raymond Viskanta Award, one of the highest honors for faculty in the field of radiative heat transfer. He received this esteemed award at the 5th International Workshop on Nano-Micro Thermal Radiation (NanoRad 2024) in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. He also delivered an invited presentation, “Cost-effective Functional Energy Materials for Thermal Radiative Applications,” at the event.
Jul 24, 2024
Predicting Rainfall with Artificial Intelligence
A research model that uses artificial intelligence to quickly and accurately predict weather forecasts will be tested by the Tennessee Valley Authority to forecast extreme rainfall this summer. The model was created by Puja Das, PhD’27, interdisciplinary engineering, who is supervised by CEE Distinguished Professor Auroop Ganguly.
Jul 24, 2024
$1.5M NSF Grant to Develop New Photonic Materials
MIE/ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu and ECE Assistant Professor Sunil Mittal, in collaboration with Professor Wenshan Cai from Georgia Institute of Technology and Professor Alexandra Boltasseva from Purdue University, are leading a $1,500,000 NSF DMREF grant for “Accelerating the Design and Development of Engineered Photonic Materials based on a Data-Driven Deep Learning Approach.”
Jul 24, 2024
Robotics Student Awarded 2024 Amazon Robotics Day One Fellowship
Sophia Jonas, MS’26, robotics, is one of seven new fellows selected for the 2024 Amazon Robotics Day One Fellowship, which supports students from underrepresented backgrounds in STEM fields pursuing robotics degrees.
Jul 23, 2024
Ergun Gives Plenary Speech at ISMP 2024
MIE Distinguished Professor Ozlem Ergun is giving a plenary speech at the upcoming 25th International Symposium on Math Programming that will focus on her research related to the improvement of global food aid operations using mathematical programming.
Jul 23, 2024
Ramezani’s Research Featured on Cover of National Geographic
ECE Associate Professor Alireza Ramezani’s research on “Bats have disease-defying superpowers. What if we could copy them?” was featured on the cover of the August 2024 edition of National Geographic.
Jul 22, 2024
Major Consequences of IT Outage
ECE/Khoury Professor Kevin Fu and ECE Professor and Interim Chair Josep Jornet explain the causes and implications of the Microsoft tech outage that grounded flights from major airlines and limited healthcare and financial services worldwide.
Jul 22, 2024
ECE PhD Receives Best Student Paper Finalist Award at IFAC SYSID 2024
Mohammad Alali, PhD’25, electrical engineering, received the Best Student Paper Finalist Award from the 20th IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID 2024), which was held at Northeastern, for his paper “Kernel-Based Particle Filtering for Scalable Inference in Partially Observed Boolean Dynamical Systems”.