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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.
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. The list below includes those […]
Chowdhury and Jornet Elevated to IEEE Fellows
ECE Professors Kaushik Chowdhury and Josep Jornet were elevated to IEEE Fellows. Chowdhury was elevated for contributions to the development of cognitive radio networks and applied machine learning for wireless systems, and Jornet for contributions in terahertz communication and nanonetworking.
PhD Spotlight: Guillem Reus-Muns, PhD’23, Computer Engineering
Guillem Reus-Muns, PhD’23, computer engineering, led a NSF project on applied machine learning for wireless, and his work resulted in several foundational discoveries that will shape next-generation wireless standards. He has published in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Networks, IEEE Transactions on Networking, and IEEE Sensors. He published a total of 14 peer-reviewed research papers and submitted two patents. Following graduation, Reus-Muns joined Apple, as a wireless systems engineer.
Chowdhury Selected as Finalist for Blavatnik National Award in Physical Sciences & Engineering
ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury was selected as a finalist for the 2023 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists in Physical Sciences & Engineering for addressing the global need of telecommunications spectrum scarcity, as well as improve connectivity by designing next generation wireless systems and machine learning-based network operations.
Kostas Research Institute Receives $13M U.S. Army Contract for Wireless Research
The Kostas Research Institute (KRI) at Northeastern University has been awarded $13 million by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory for foundational research into Cognitive Distributed Sensing in Congested Radio Frequency Environments. KRI and five partner institutions will conduct innovative research to enable technologies in distributed machine learning, signal processing algorithms, and computational, sensing, and communication hardware infrastructure for distributed sensing and communication.
Creating Intelligent Access Points in Dense Wi-Fi Networks
ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury was awarded a patent for “Method and apparatus for access point discovery in dense WiFi networks”.
COE Researchers Honored at Annual BPLA Invented Here!
The Boston Patent Law Association (BPLA) hosted its annual Invented Here! contest and honored COE inventors who help further innovation not only in our region but worldwide.
Wireless Charging of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
ECE Research Assistant Professor Yousof Naderi and Professor Kaushik Chowdhury were awarded a patent for “Wireless charging of unmanned aerial vehicles.”
2022 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 percent 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. The list below includes […]
Northeastern in Top 100 Universities with U.S. Utility Patents
For the seventh consecutive year, Northeastern University has appeared in the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) list of Top 100 Universities that were granted U.S. utility patents in 2021, cementing it as a world leader in academia and research.
Targeting the Shared Mid-Band Spectrum for 5G
ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury and Associate Research Scientist Debashri Roy, in collaboration with the University of Oklahoma, were awarded a $750K NSF grant for “MEDUSA: Mid-band Environmental Sensing Capability for Detecting Incumbents during Spectrum Sharing.” The objective of the project is to detect the presence of static/mobile radar and anomalous transmissions within concurrent and comparatively higher power 5G and 4G-LTE signals through machine learning and receiver antenna design.
Six Engineering Spinouts Selected as Eddies Finalists
Six spinout companies that were created by engineering faculty have been selected as finalists for the Massachusetts Innovation Network’s innovation competition, The Eddies. Every year, the Massachusetts Innovation Network hosts its signature innovation competition, The Eddies. The Eddies (formerly known as NE Innovation Awards) is the oldest and longest running innovation competition in New England. […]
Two Patents Issued for Naderi & Chowdhury Innovation
ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury and Research Assistant Professor Yousof Naderi were awarded patents for “Encoding and decoding data in communication frames of a communications protocol” and “Distributed wireless charging system and method.”
Best Paper Award in ACM DroneCom 2021, co-located with ACM MobiCom
ECE PhD student Sara Garcia Sanchez, advised by Professor Kaushik Chowdhury, won the best paper award at the 2021 4th International Workshop on Drone Assisted Wireless Communications for 5G and Beyond co-located with ACM MobiCom 2021 for her paper entitled “Camera-enabled joint robotic-communication paradigm for UAVs mounted with mmwave radios.”
DeepCharge Startup Transforms Surfaces into Universal Chargers
Main photo: DeepCharge, a startup spun out of a Northeastern College of Engineering lab, enables any surface to charge electronic devices. For every electronic device you own, there’s one more charger to lose, forget, mix up with a different charger, or simply forget to plug in. But what if charging took up no more thought […]
NU Startup ‘DeepCharge’ Featured on Forbes
DeepCharge, founded by ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury and Research Assistant Professor Yousof Naderi, was featured in the Forbes article “DeepCharge Develops Universal Wireless Charging“. It was also featured in Nov. 22 Forbes article “DeepCharge Universal Wireless Charging to Aid Sustainability.” DeepCharge is a NU startup and part of the accelerator program at the Roux Institute.
Faculty and Staff Awards 2022
Congratulations to all the winners of the faculty and staff awards, and to everyone for their hard work and dedication during the 2021-2022 academic school year.
COE Professors Selected in Stanford University List of Top 2% Scientists Worldwide
The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2 percent 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. The list below includes […]
Institute of Wireless Internet of Things Part of IARPA Contract
The Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things is participating in an Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) contract led by AiRANACULUS®, a Massachusetts-based technology company. The IARPA program is focused on identifying unexpected radio frequency (RF) transmissions to detect attempted data breaches. ECE Professors Kaushik Chowdhury (lead), Tommaso Melodia, and Francesco Restuccia, will work on designing machine learning techniques and support experimental testing for signal analysis and classification.
$3M Award to Improve the Performance of 5G and 6G Wireless Networks
ECE Associate Professor Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Professor Stefano Basagni, Professor Kaushik Chowdhury, Associate Professor Josep Jornet, and William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia were awarded a $3M award to create “An Open, Programmable Platform to Conquer the 5G and 6G Wireless Spectrum.”
2021 Acorn Innovation Awards
ECE Research Assistant Professor Yousof Naderi, Professor Kaushik Chowdhury, Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava, and ChE Assistant Professor Benjamin Woolston received Acorn Innovation Fund Awards which help in the commercialization of scientific breakthroughs in Massachusetts.
Northeastern Part of New NSF Artificial Intelligence Research Institute
Northeastern is part of a team led by the Ohio State University that was awarded $20 million over five years for the NSF AI Institute for Future Edge Networks and Distributed Intelligence (AI-EDGE). Professor Kaushik Chowdhury, electrical and computer engineering (ECE), is the Northeastern lead, with co-PIs ECE Professor Tommaso Melodia and ECE Associate Professor Stratis Ioannidis responsible for $1.8 million of the award.
RFDataFactory: Categorized and Searchable Research Datasets
ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury (PI), William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor Tommaso Melodia (co-PI), and Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia (co-PI) are leading a $1.8M NSF grant, in collaboration with Ashutosh Sabharwal from Rice University, for “RFDataFactory: Principled Dataset Generation, Sharing and Maintenance Tools for the Wireless Community.” RFDataFactory aims to make available categorized datasets suitable for research related to machine learning in 5G and beyond networks, and advance fundamental understanding and design tools for accessing, creating, sharing and storing wireless datasets.
Measuring Electromagnetic Activity of the Brain
ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury was awarded a patent for “Sensor system and process for measuring electric activity of the brain, including electric field encephalography”.
Transferring Energy Wirelessly to Power Devices
ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury and Research Assistant Professor Yousof Naderi were awarded a patent for “Distributed wireless charging system and method.”
Northeastern’s WIOT to Co-Host First Annual 6G Symposium
Northeastern University’s Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things (WIOT), along with mobile and video technology research and development company InterDigital, is hosting a virtual 6G symposium to create excitement and increase public awareness and engagement in articulating a strong vision for 6G.
$1M DARPA Grant for Signal Processing in Neural Networks for Wireless IoT
ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury, Assistant Professor Pau Closas, Professor Deniz Erdogmus, Professor Tommaso Melodia, and Assistant Professor Yanzhi Wang received $1M funding from DARPA for their project titled Signal Processing in Neural Networks (SPiNN) for Wireless IoT.
Cybersecurity: Your Secrets Are Safe With Us
Northeastern researchers are at the forefront of cybersecurity research, protecting everything from the phone in your pocket to the city of the future.
Eight COE Projects Selected for GapFund360
Northeastern’s GapFund360 program helps Northeastern’s researchers bridge the gap between promising lab results and demonstrating a commercially viable prototype. Awards range from $50K -$100K. Nine projects were selected from a pool of 39 applications from across the university; COE contributed 25 of the applications and seven projects were selected for funding. Congratulations to the following COE researchers whose projects were selected for Phase I or Phase II GapFund360 funding: ChE Assistant Professor Sidi Bencherif, MIE Assistant Professor Safa Jamali, ECE Assistant Professor Sarah Ostadabbas, ChE/COS Associate Professor Carolyn Lee-Parsons, ECE Professor Tommaso Melodia, ECE Associate Research Scientist Salvatore D’Oro, ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury, ECE Principal Research Scientist Yousof Naderi, ECE Postdoc Ufuk Muncuk, ECE Professor Vincent Harris, ECE Associate Research Scientist Parisa Andalib, ECE Associate Professor Matteo Rinaldi, and ECE Research Assistant Professor Zhenyun Qian.
ECE Receives Best Paper Award at IEEE GLOBECOM
ECE PhD students Kai Li, Ufuk Muncuk, Principal Research Scientist Yousof Naderi, and Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury were awarded the best paper award at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2019 conference for their paper “SoftSense: Collaborative Surface-based Object Sensing and Tracking Using Networked Coils”.
ECE Team Wins Best Paper Award at IEEE DySPAN 2019
ECE PostDoc Andrey Gritsenko, Computer Engineering PhDs Zifeng Wang, Tong Jian, Professor Jennifer Dy, Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury, and Assistant Professor Stratis Ioannidis received the best paper award at the IEEE DySPAN 2019 conference for their paper on “Finding a ‘New’ Needle in the Haystack: Unseen Radio Detection in Large Populations Using Deep Learning”.
Data Privacy in the Palm of Your Hand. Literally.
ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury discusses data privacy when it comes to wireless devices in the Litmus podcast.
Creating the World’s Most Powerful Emulator of Wireless Systems
ECE Professor Tommaso Melodia is working with NSF and DARPA to create the next generation of wireless technology by building a testbed named Colosseum, which will be the world’s most powerful emulator of wireless systems.
Ioannidis to Lead $1M NSF Grant for Real-Time Learning for Next Generation Wireless Systems
ECE Assistant Professor Stratis Ioannidis is leading a $1M NSF grant, with Professors Jennifer Dy, Tommaso Melodia, Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury, and Assistant Professor Yanzhi Wang, to develop “Efficient and Adaptive Real-Time Learning for Next Generation Wireless Systems”.
NSF Names Third PAWR Wireless Research Platform in North Carolina’s Research Triangle
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the third award in its Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) program. In collaboration with an industry consortium of 30 networking companies and associations, NSF is supporting the development and deployment of a new PAWR platform based in Raleigh and Cary, North Carolina – named Aerial Experimentation and Research Platform for Advanced Wireless (“AERPAW”)
Wirelessly Charging Multiple Devices Simultaneously
ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury and Principal Research Scientist Yousof Naderi are working on technology that could turn any surface into a wireless charger to power several different devices simultaneously.
Creating a Safer Way to Transmit Data
ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury is working with Draper Laboratory and the Federal University of Paraná to create a safe, hacker-proof method to transmit sensitive data.
ECE Team Awarded DOD DURIP Grant
ECE Professor Tommaso Melodia and co-PIs Associate Professors Kaushik Chowdhury, Stefano Basagni, and Assistant Professor Jose Angel Martinez-Lorenzo were awarded a $295K grant by the Office of Naval Research for their proposal on “PROTECT: A Millimeter-wave Programmable Radio platfOrm and Tactical wirelEss Communication Testbed” as part of DOD’s Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP).
New Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things
ECE Professor Tommaso Melodia is the founding director of Northeastern’s new Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things, which will help build the next generation of wireless technologies.
ECE Faculty and Students Receive Funding From CRI
Four faculty members will have projects funded by Northeastern through the Center for Research innovation as part of a new funding initiative administered by the Center for Research Innovation. For a full description, please see this CRI announcement page. The projects and faculty awarded include: Battery-less Infrared Sensor Tags for Reliable Occupancy Sensing (BISTROS)Matteo Rinaldi, Zhenyun […]
Five COE Projects Selected for GapFund360
Congratulations to ECE Associate Professors Kaushik Chowdhury, Raymond Fu, Matteo Rinaldi, ECE Professor Vincent Harris, and BioE Professor Jeff Ruberti whose projects were selected for Phase 1 2018 funding by Northeastern’s GapFund360 program.
MIE/ECE Faculty Awarded $1.5M AFRL Grant
MIE/ECE Assistant Professor Jose Martinez-Lorenzo, ECE Professor Tommaso Melodia, ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury, ECE/MIE Professor Hanumant Singh, and CCIS/ECE Affiliated Faculty Chris Amato were awarded a $1.5M Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) grant for “Robust Decentralized Classification and Coordination Algorithms for Swarms of SUAS.”
$1.5M Wireless/Machine Learning DARPA Award for Device Fingerprinting
ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury is leading an interdisciplinary COE team leveraging a $1.5 million DARPA grant to identify device-specific radio signals on a massive scale.
NSF-sponsored US-Finland collaboration meeting held at Northeastern
ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury, coordinator for the Wireless Innovation between Finland and U.S. (WiFiUS) program, organized a PI meeting at Northeastern, with 10 projects currently funded on the theme of Internet of Things (IOT).
Northeastern IoT Research Shines at IEEE Infocom in Honolulu, Hawaii
Northeastern researchers were prominently featured at the recent IEEE Infocom 2018 conference in Honolulu, Hawaii on April 14-19. Prof. Tommaso Melodia served as Technical Program Chair for the conference, and was recognized with the class of new 2018 IEEE Fellows in the conference opening ceremony. Prof. Kaushik Chowdhury and his team received a Best Paper […]
Chowdhury Awarded an IEEE INFOCOM Best Paper Award
ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury’s team was awarded an IEEE INFOCOM Best Paper Award for his paper on “WiFED: WiFi Friendly Energy Delivery with Distributed Beamforming” which will be presented at the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications.
Chowdhury Awarded $200K NSF Grant
ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury was awarded a $200K NSF grant for "DeepBeam: Wirelessly chargeable portable batteries through energy beamforming".
Protecting Privacy for Wireless Medical Devices
Affiliated CCIS Professor Guevara Noubir and ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury were awarded a $300K NSF grant for "Assessing and Protecting Privacy in Wireless Wearable Sensor-Generated Medical Data".
Faculty and Staff Awards 2017
Congratulations to all the winners of the faculty and staff awards, and to everyone for their hard work and dedication during the 2016-2017 academic school year. Faculty Fellow Edward Beighley, CEE Yun Raymond Fu, ECE Tommaso Melodia, ECE Rising Star Staff Award Erin Schnepp, Undergraduate Academic Advising Carolina Venegas-Martinez, CEE Outstanding Teachers of First Year […]
Chowdhury Awarded DARPA Young Faculty Award
ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury was selected to receive a prestigious $500K DARPA Young Faculty Award for "Reconfigurable and Application Independent Design for Radios (RAIDER)".
Melodia Directs Groundbreaking NSF Wireless Communications Initiative
ECE Associate Professor Tommaso Melodia has been named the director of research of the Project Office for an NSF initiative called Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research, or PAWR, which will disburse over the next seven years nearly $100 million in investments from the NSF and more than 25 companies and industry associations to winning teams. The NSF will fund the PAWR Project Office, or PPO, with a five-year, $6.1 million award.
Professor Chowdhury Named Presidential Early Career Award Winner
ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury is one of 102 scientists and researchers being awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
ECE PhD Student Receives Dissertation Award
ECE PhD Student Benjamin Drozdenko named a Spring 2017 Dissertation Completion Awardee from Northeastern University’s Provost Office. Drozdenko is co-advised by Professor Miriam Leeser and Professor Kaushik Chowdhury. Drozdenko's dissertation is entitled “Enabling Protocol Coexistence: Hardware-Software Codesign of Wireless Transceivers on Heterogeneous Computing Architectures.” For a full list of awardees, please visit Dissertation Completion Award.
ECE Chowdhury & Visiting Professor Canberk Win Best Paper Award at IEEE CAMAD
ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury and Visiting Professor Berk Canberk from Istanbul Technical University (ITU) received the CAMAD Best Paper Award for their paper "Dynamic Power Adjustment and Resource Allocation Framework for LTE Networks".
Chowdhury has one of the Top 25 most Downloaded Sensors Paper
ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury's paper on "Low-Cost Wake-Up Receiver for RF Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks" was one of the 25 most downloaded Sensors Journal papers for June 2016. It is exciting to note that included in this count are all Sensors Journal papers published since the Journal's foundation, about 4500 papers in total, […]
Chowdhury is US Coordinator of WiFiUS
ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury is the US coordinator for the Wireless Innovation between Finland and U.S. (WiFiUS) program, jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Academy of Finland and Tekes. This is one of the programs highlighted as part of the advanced wireless event held in Washington DC in July, where […]
Wireless Collaboration Between US & Finland
ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury was awarded a $200K NSF grant for "Coordinating US-Finland Collaboration on Wireless Research through WiFiUS PI Meetings". Abstract Source: NSF Internet of Things (IoT) is poised to create new economic opportunities and considerably enhance the quality of life of the general population. The proposed coordination project is aimed at bringing […]
Chowdhury Awarded NSF I-Corps Grant
ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Chowhury was awarded a $50K NSF I-Corps grant for his "Software-Defined Distributed Wireless Charging".
Faculty and Staff Awards 2016
2016 Faculty and Staff Awards Congratulations to all the winners of the faculty and staff awards, and to everyone for their hard work and dedication during the 2015-2016 academic school year. Faculty Fellow Kaushik Chowdhury, ECE Carol Livermore, MIE Marilyn Minus, MIE Rising Star Staff Award Gabrielle Fiorenza, Co-op Nicole Nightingale, Dean’s Office Outstanding Teachers […]
2016 COE Faculty Fellows
Congratulations to this year’s class of COE Faculty Fellows: Kaushik Chowdhury, Carol Livermore, and Marilyn Minus.
ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury has been awarded grant worth $1M from the ONR
ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury has been awarded a 5 year grant worth $1M from the U.S. Navy.
I.Q. Project Highlight: Implantable Sensors
ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury is advancing healthcare as his research looks at implantable sensors that communicate with each other through the human body. These implants will have the ability to transmit measurements, receive updates on drug delivery volumes, and directly initiate actions of embedded actuators. All these functions require energy efficient communication between implants […]
Assistant Professor Kaushik Chowdhury Receives NSF CAREER Award
ECE Assistant Professor Kaushik Chowdhury was awarded NSF CAREER Award for creating “Integrated Data and Energy Access for Wireless Sensor Networks”
ECE Silicon Valley Spring Break 2015
20 undergraduate students from Northeastern's ECE department spent their spring break visiting and networking with some of the biggest and brightest names in Silicon Valley.
Chowdhury Awarded EAGER Grant
ECE Assistant Professor Kaushik Chowdhury was awarded a $300K EAGER NSF grant to design a network protocol stack using weak electrical currents instead of RF waves in implanted sensors.
A New Way to Communicate
Under the direction of Assistant Professor Kaushik Chowdhury and Associate Professor Waleed Meleis, a team of ECE capstone students have developed a Interoperable Communication Device (ICD) that allows 2-way radio users to communicate across channels without updating any hardware. Source: News @ Northeastern
Chowdhury Gets NSF Grant
ECE Assistant Professor Kaushik Chowdhury was awarded a $278K EAGER NSF Grant for creating Cognitive Radio Enabled Spectrum Aware Intelligent Vehicular Networks. The NSF funds research and education in science and engineering, through grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements. The Foundation accounts for about 20 percent of federal support to academic institutions for basic research.
FY13 TIER 1 Award Recipients
27 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY13 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 21 different research projects.