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Sep 22, 2026
Restuccia Receives Prestigious PECASE Award
ECE Associate Professor Francesco Restuccia was awarded a $1M Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers to develop mathematical frameworks that make wireless systems and AI models more reliable by accounting for uncertainty and ignorance.
Sep 14, 2026
Making Sure Students Understand the Code in the Age of AI
To address the challenges of artificial intelligence in the classroom, ECE Professor Hanumant Singh pairs homework assignments with corresponding in-person quizzes, using the lower of the two grades as the final score to ensure students truly understand the material even when utilizing AI tools.
Sep 11, 2026
Imani Receives Air Force Young Investigator Program Award
Mahdi Imani, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University, has received an Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) award for research on AI reasoning and human-AI collaboration. The three-year, $450,000 award supports his project, “Foundations of Trust and Influence in Human-AI Teams: Identifiability, Causal Measurement, and Stability”.
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.