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Aug 31, 2026
Northeastern Joins $2M NSF-Funded Effort to Build Resilience Against Wildfire and Its Cascading Aftershocks
Northeastern’s Auroop Ganguly is part of a four-university team awarded a $2M NSF grant to develop new models for predicting and managing the cascading wildfire, infrastructure, and community risks facing communities in the wildland-urban interface.
Aug 28, 2026
What do teachers think about AI?
COE Industrial Engineering Professor Abe Zeid, Executive Director Claire Duggan, and Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Director Jennifer Love of the Michael B. Silevitch and Claire J. Duggan Center for STEM Education are working on the NSF-funded project “Modernizing Education: Using AI to Improve Students’ Learning and Build Skills for the Future” with 30 local high school STEM teachers.
Aug 28, 2026
From PhD Student to Professor: Dian Indrawati to Join UNJANI Faculty as Professor in Climate Science and Hydrology
A future doctor turned engineer, Dian Indrawati just defended her PhD at Northeastern and is heading home to Indonesia as a tenured professor — using AI to help the flood- and drought-prone archipelago build climate resilience.
Aug 27, 2026
Ghoreishi Receives $369K NSF Award for AI/ML-Enabled Resilient Building Design
Fatemeh Ghoreishi, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, jointly appointed with the Khoury College of Computer Sciences, has received a $368,688 award from the U.S. National Science Foundation to advance artificial intelligence and machine learning methods for safer, more resilient building design.
Aug 11, 2026
Data Analytics Engineering Student Develops AI Tools to Automate Hospital Workflows
Sai Anish Sreeramagiri, MS, data analytics engineering, developed artificial intelligence tools during his co-op to automate administrative tasks like insurance authorizations, giving doctors and nurses more time to care for patients.
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 04, 2026
Brain Inspired Computer Chips Could Power Faster and More Efficient Supercomputers
ECE Professor Hossein Mosallaei received the U.S. Department of Energy’s AI Genesis Award to advance research on brain-inspired computer chips that could make future AI supercomputers significantly faster and much more energy-efficient.
Aug 04, 2026
Industrial Engineering Student Builds AI Agent to Repair Chemical Plant Blueprints
Sierre Ternoey, E, industrial engineering, developed an agentic AI tool during a research co-op in Germany that reads error reports and automatically fixes chemical plant process flow sheets.