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Sun Selected as APS Fellow
ECE Distinguished Professor Nian Sun was selected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society by the Topical Group on Magnetism and its Applications (GMAG) for his innovations in high magnetization materials, magnetoelastic and magnetoelectric thin film materials, microsystems, and device physics.
Creating a Device To Detect Epileptic Seizures
In collaboration with ECE Distinguished Professor Nian Sun, Mukki Gill, E’25, mechanical engineering and history, is developing Zor, a portable device that can predict when its user is about to have an epileptic seizure. She received a second place Women Who Empower Award from Northeastern in the Powering a Healthy Tomorrow Award category, and an honorable mention in the undergraduate category.
New NSF Center for Pandemic Insights
Northeastern University was featured in the Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News article New NFS Center for Pandemic Insights, a partnership of 11 universities and includes ECE Distinguished Professor Nian Sun as a co-PI and Associate Teaching Professor Jennifer Love as a member of a project team.
Patent for Breakthroughs in Miniature Antenna Technology
ECE Distinguished Professor Nian Sun was awarded a patent for “Mechanically-driven SMR-based MEMS magnetoelectric antennas.”
Northeastern Co-PI of New NSF Center for Insights Into the Pre-Emergence Phase of Pandemics
ECE Distinguished Professor Nian Sun is co-PI of the new NSF Center for Pandemic Insights, which is led by the University of California-Davis and in partnership with 10 universities. Sun is leading innovative sensing technology, while Associate Teaching Professor Jennifer Love is part of the project team for education, outreach, training, and workforce development.
Revolutionizing Refrigeration With Tiny Wireless Sensors
ECE Associate Professor Cristian Cassella and Distinguished Professor Nian Sun received a $500,000 NSF grant for “Boosting the Cold Chain Efficiency Through Integrated, Magnetoelectric, Piezoelectric and Ferroelectric Devices in pAssive on-Chip Tags (IMPACT).”
Exploring Magnetoelectric Technology in IoT
ECE Distinguished Professor Nian Sun was invited to write the review “Magnetoelectric Microelectromechanical and Nanoelectromechanical Systems for the IoT” in the journal Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering.
Summer 2024 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of the Summer 2024 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
Patent for Innovative Thin Film Heterostructures
ECE Distinguished Professor Nian Sun was awarded a patent for “Sputter deposited crystalline ordered topological insulator/ferromagnet (TI/FM) thin film heterostructures for spintronics applications.”
Northeastern Among Top 100 Universities for Utility Patents
Northeastern University, recognized for its excellence in innovation and entrepreneurship, has once again been named one of the top 100 universities worldwide for securing utility patents by the National Academy of Inventors.
Spring 2024 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
A record number of engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of the Spring 2024 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
2023 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations
The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2% of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above.
$2M NSF Award for Improving Power Delivery for High-Performance Computing
ECE Professor Nian Sun and Associate Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava, in collaboration with Cornell University, were awarded a $2 million NSF grant for “Heterogeneous Integration in Power Electronics for High-Performance Computing (HIPE-HPC).”
Advanced Electrochemical Sensors for Early Disease Detection
ECE Professor Nian X. Sun and ChE Associate Teaching Professor Adam Ekenseair were awarded a patent for “Molecularly-imprinted electrochemical sensors.”
Faculty and Staff Awards 2023
Faculty and staff in the College of Engineering were recognized at the annual awards event in a variety of categories for their contributions during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Creating NME Antennas for Portable Electronic Applications
ECE Professor Nian X. Sun was awarded a patent for “Nanoscale radio frequency magnetoelectric antenna.” Abstract Source: USPTO A nanomechanical magnetoelectric antenna includes a thin film heterostructure that has a magnetic element and a piezoelectric element. The heterostructure is suspended on a substrate and is capable of resonating at acoustic resonance frequencies. In the transmission […]
FY23 TIER 1 Award Recipients
Congratulations to the 15 COE faculty and affiliates who were recipients of FY23 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 13 different projects.
Creating a Device for Early Detection of Disease Using Exhaled Breath
ECE Professor Nian X. Sun and ChE Associate Teaching Professor Adam Ekenseair were awarded a patent for “Molecularly-imprinted electrochemical sensors.”
Tracking Potential Outbreaks Through Wastewater
ECE Professor Nian Sun and MIE Professor Hongwei Sun are part of a team, led by Professor Sheree Pagsuyoin of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, which was awarded $660K in pledged funding as one of five third-place winners of the Trinity Awards, for their project, “Disease Surveillance with Multi-modal Sensor Network & Data Analytics”.
Could Breathalyzers Make Covid Testing Quicker and Easier?
ECE Professor Nian Sun was featured in the Wired.com article “Could Breathalyzers Make Covid Testing Quicker and Easier?” for his efforts in using breathalyzer like devices to detect viral particles.
Faculty and Staff Awards 2020
Congratulations to all the winners of the faculty and staff awards, and to everyone for their hard work and dedication during the 2019-2020 academic school year.
Developing VLF Magnetoelectric Antennas for Communication Systems
ECE Professor Nian X. Sun was awarded a patent for creating a “Magnetoelectric very low frequency communication system.”
Sensors to Detect COVID-19 Diagnosis Instantly
ECE Professor Nian Sun, in collaboration with Jeremy Luban from UMass Medical School, was awarded a $200K NSF RAPID grant for “COVID-19: New Handheld Gas Sensors for Airborne SARS-CoV-2 Virus: Instant COVID-19 Diagnosis from Exhaled Breath.”
Nian Sun Named IEEE Fellow
ECE Professor Nian Sun has been named an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to integrated magnetic and magnetoelectric materials and devices.
Sun Receives Prestigious Humboldt Research Award
ECE Professor Nian Sun was awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Upstage Lung Cancer Funds Biomarker Sensor Project Supporting Early Lung Cancer Detection
Boston-based organization Upstage Lung Cancer (ULC), the advocacy non-profit exclusively utilizing performing arts to raise awareness and funding in the fight against lung cancer, has awarded a $30k grant award to ECE Professor Nian Sun’s cutting edge Advanced Materials and Microsystems Laboratory (AMML), substantially funding a new research project exploring the use of a hand-held gas screening sensor system for breath biomarkers in the early detection screening of lung cancer.
Multiferroics and the path to the market
ECE Professor Nian Sun was interviewed by Dr. Stephen Shevlin from Nature Materials on Multiferroics and the path to the market.
Tiny Antenna Wins Big Prize
ECE PhD student Hwaider Lin’s research into creating a tiny antenna to precisely target specific neurons won first prize in NASA Tech Briefs magazine contest “Create the Future Design Contest.”
$1.34M NIH Grant for Wireless Microscale Neuronal Recording and Stimulation System
ECE Professor Nian Sun, Associate Professor Marvin Onabajo and Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava were awarded a $1.34M NIH collaborative grant with Massachusetts General Hospital to work on nano-scale neural radio frequency identification (NanoNeuroRFID) devices for wireless neural magnetic modulation and recording.
Engineers just created a tiny antenna, which could be used for brain implants
ECE Professor Nian Sun's research featured in Digital Trend's Engineers just created a tiny antenna, which could be used for brain implants. See Related Article: Reducing the Size of Antennas
Ultra-small antennas point way to miniature brain implants
ECE Professor Nian Sun's research featured in Nature's Ultra-small antennas point way to miniature brain implants. See Related Article: Reducing the Size of Antennas
Mini-antennas could power brain-computer interfaces
ECE Professor Nian Sun's research featured in Science Magazine's Mini-antennas could power brain-computer interfaces, medical devices and highlighted in ASEE's First Bell. See Related Article: Reducing the Size of Antennas
Reducing the Size of Antennas
ECE Professor Nian Sun has discovered a way to build new antennas that could be up to one hundred times smaller than traditional antennas.
VOTERS Awarded Patent
CEE Professor Ming Wang & ECE Professor Nian Sun were awarded a patent for “Real-time wireless dynamic tire pressure sensor and energy harvesting system”. Abstract Source: USPTO An instantaneous/real-time wireless dynamic tire pressure sensor (DTPS) for characterizing pavement qualities and for detecting surface and subsurface pavement defects under normal driving conditions. Signal processing provides quantitative […]
FY17 TIER 1 Award Recipients
23 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY17 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 12 different projects representing over $600K dollars of investment in research.
Research Fair a Big Success
The COE Undergraduate Research Lab fair gathered hundreds of students eager to learn about the research opportunities available to them.
PhD Student Wins Mobile Defense Challenge
MIE PhD student Shadi Emam was on the winning team of Finjan Holdings, Inc.'s Mobile Defense Challenge 2015.
Sun Awarded $364K NSF Grant
ECE Professor Nian Sun was awarded a $364K NSF grant for creating "Nanomagnetic Stimulation Capability for Neural Investigation and Control".
ECE Graduate Student Tianxiang Nan Wins 2015 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad
Tianxiang Nan, an ECE doctoral candidate, has been awarded the 2015 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad – one of just 500 such scholars.
Sun/Rinaldi Receive $1M Grant
ECE Professor Nian Sun & Assistant Professor Matteo Rinaldi were awarded a $1M grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation for Nanofabricated Neural Probes with Ultra-Sensitive Integrated Compact RF NEMS Magnetoelectric Sensors for Electro-Magneto-Brain Activity Map.
Vibration Energy Harvester
ECE Professor Nian Sun was awarded a patent for his invention of a vibration energy harvesting device with increased output power density.
3Qs: Could circuits’ face-lift mean faster, smaller phones?
ECE Associate Professor Nian Sun has developed a method for RF circuits to be tunable on both the capacitor & inductor side, allowing for smaller cell phones and longer battery life. Imagine a cell phone that’s half the size with longer battery time and better performance. That could become a reality thanks to new research […]
Sun Receives $450K Grant
ECE Associate Professor Nian Sun has been awarded a $450K grant from Semiconductor Research Corporation for his work in Tunable Inductors & Transformers for Filters, LNAs, and PAs.
Article Voted Top in Past Decade
ECE Associate Professor Nian Sun’s paper on “Giant Electric Field Tuning of Magnetic Properties in Multiferroic Heterostructures” has been selected as one of the 10 most outstanding full papers & featured articles in the past ten years in Advanced Functional Materials. Source: News @ Northeastern
Article Voted Top in Past Decade
ECE Associate Professor Nian Sun’s paper on “Giant Electric Field Tuning of Magnetic Properties in Multiferroic Heterostructures” has been selected as one of the 10 most outstanding full papers & featured articles in the past ten years in Advanced Functional Materials.
Sun Receives Additional Funding
Nian Sun, an ECE Associate Professor, received an additional $76K towards his NSF CAREER award that investigates novel spin-spray synthesis methods for magnoelectronic films at low temperature.
Sun Receives $50K for Research
Nian Sun, an ECE Associate Professor, received $50K from Northrop Grumman Corporation for bringing up collaborative research on high performance miniature antennas with Northrop Grumman.