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Jul 19, 2024
Innovating Through Artificial Intelligence
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, state economic development and technology leaders, and other officials visited Northeastern to learn from faculty how AI can solve some of the most pressing issues in the state and the world. CEE Distinguished Professor Auroop Ganguly, ECE/Khoury Distinguished Professor Jennifer Dy, and ECE Professor Taskin Padir were in attendance.
Jul 10, 2024
Robotics Student Awarded Amazon Robotics Day One Fellowship
Oscar De La Garza, MS’25, robotics, is participating in an internship at Amazon Robotics as part of being named one of just seven students awarded the 2023 Amazon Robotics Day One Fellowship. The fellowship supports emerging leaders in science from backgrounds underrepresented in STEM, awarding scholarships, mentorship, and career opportunities.
Jun 24, 2024
Advancing EV Battery Technology
MIE Assistant Professor Juner Zhu has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Ford University Research Program (URP) designated for developing advanced EV battery cell models.
Jun 20, 2024
Industrial Engineering Capstone Team Modernizes Parachute Inspection for U.S. Army
Four industrial engineering students received several awards, including the Capstone Day Judges Award, for their Parachute Quality Assurance Modernization Capstone Design project presented at the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Conference in Montréal. The students, who worked with the U.S. Army Personnel Airdrop Systems team, digitized a paper-based system for recording parachute component measurements.
Jun 20, 2024
Industrial Engineering Capstone Team Wins Fourth Place at International Conference for US Open Officiating Project
An undergraduate industrial engineering Capstone team was recognized for their US Open Tennis Championships Electronic Officiating Quality Control project at the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Conference. The team worked with the United States Tennis Association to help automate and standardize the electronic officiating process for the acclaimed tennis event.
Jun 18, 2024
Forum on Sustainable Energy in Cities and Communities Celebrates World Environment Day
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng moderated a forum on the impact of innovative technology in achieving efficient energy use and reducing carbon emissions at the Boston Urban Forum, which hosted the event to celebrate World Environment Day. Zheng is co-founder of the Boston Urban Forum.
Jun 05, 2024
Best Paper Runner-Up for X5G Open Testbed
ECE PhD students, and ECE and WIOT faculty and research staff received the Best Paper Runner-Up for their paper, “An Open, Programmable, Multi-Vendor 5G O-RAN Testbed With NVIDIA ARC and OpenAir Interface,” at the 2nd Workshop on Next-generation Open and Programmable Radio Access Networks (NG-OPERA).
May 22, 2024
Bioengineering PhD Develops and Commercializes Breakthrough MRI Technology
Codi Gharagouzloo, PhD’16, bioengineering, co-founded Imaginostics, commercializing a novel technology called QUTE-CE MRI, which is a platform technology for non-invasive imaging that transforms any MRI machine into a powerful quantitative diagnostic tool. Imaginostics was recognized as a finalist among more than 4,500 participants of Hello Tomorrow, a prestigious competition for deep tech startups.