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Abowd Elected Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Gregory D. Abowd, dean of the College of Engineering and ECE professor, was elected a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in the area of Computer Sciences. The Academy honors excellence across disciplines and addresses critical global issues.
Abowd Receives ACM SIGCHI Special Recognition Award
Gregory D. Abowd, dean of the College of Engineering and ECE professor, received the Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI) Special Recognition Award “for his extraordinary ability to inspire and mentor individuals from diverse backgrounds and his commitment to fostering collaboration, creativity, and impact.”
Inaugural College of Engineering Young Alumni Impact Award Recipients
The College of Engineering announces its inaugural Young Alumni Impact Award recipients. These six leaders in their fields were carefully selected from a pool of faculty nominations. With only one awardee for each engineering discipline, this is an elite achievement. The awards ceremony and “Career Paths to Impact” fireside chat hosted by Dean Gregory Abowd is Feb. 18, 2025 in Boston and virtual.
2024 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 who published a paper in 2024 or later.
Relive the 115 Years of Co-op Celebration
The year 2024 marked 115 years of cooperative education at Northeastern University, which began in the College of Engineering! To celebrate a series of events for alumni, employers, students, faculty, staff, and families took place across the global university network, culminating in Boston during Homecoming Weekend in November.
Renaming and Dedication of the Michael B. Silevitch and Claire J. Duggan Center for STEM Education
At the renaming and dedication ceremony of the Michael B. Silevitch and Claire J. Duggan Center for STEM Education, public school community members, alumni, faculty, staff, students, and Northeastern leadership recognized the impact made on a countless number of students for more than 35 years.
COE Research Expo Displays Promising Work of PhD Students
The College of Engineering held a research expo to highlight the work of PhD students. Participants presented their research to a panel of judges and gained critical presentation and communication skills. They also displayed their research during the poster showcase and students were recognized with awards.
Engineers Week Speaker Discusses Creating Inclusivity Through Psychological Safety
As part of the National Engineers Week celebration, chemical engineer and DEI leader Mark McBride-Wright spoke at a fireside chat with COE Dean Gregory Abowd about creating inclusivity and leading teams by creating a psychologically safe environment in the workplace and beyond.
Celebrating Bioengineering at Northeastern: Visions for the Future
The Department of Bioengineering hosted a 10 year anniversary celebration to commemorate what the department has accomplished and showcase its plans for the future.
Center for Battery Sustainability and the 2nd Workshop
Faculty, researchers, students, and industry leaders gathered at the 2nd Battery Sustainability Workshop to discuss sustainability, recycling, and more. MIE Assistant Professor Juner Zhu, along with MIT professors Martin Z. Bazant and Richard D. Braatz, founded the Center for Battery Sustainability, after participating in last year’s event.
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.
Abowd Receives 10-Year UbiComp Impact Award
Gregory D. Abowd, dean of the College of Engineering and professor of ECE, was a recipient of the UbiComp 2023 10-Year Impact Award for his paper, “Instant Inkjet Circuits: Lab-based Inkjet Printing to Support Rapid Prototyping of UbiComp Devices,” that was published in 2013. The award is given to papers published at the conference 10 years ago that have been deemed the most impactful over time.
25 Prominent Autism Researchers in the World
Dean Gregory D. Abowd was featured in the Autism Parenting Magazine article “25 Prominent Autism Researchers in the World.”
Northeastern To Have Strong Presence at ACM CHI 2023
Researchers from Khoury College, the College of Engineering, and the College of Arts, Media and Design are presenting their research at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Hamburg, Germany, the most prestigious human–computer interaction conference in the world.
Celebrating National Engineers Week 2023
The College of Engineering celebrated National Engineers Week with events including a ‘Break the Mold’ Fireside Chat with award-winning engineer and commentator Dr. Shini Somara and Dean Gregory Abowd; Cookies with the Dean event, which included snacks, photo and video booths, COE swag and a lot of COE pride; Breakout sessions with Shini Somara with select students and faculty showing our progressive engineering program, research, and community; and an Engineering for Everyone Expo hosted by the Center for STEM Education.
Abowd Receives ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award
Dean Gregory D. Abowd received the Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) Lifetime Research Award. It recognizes the very best, most fundamental, and influential research contributions, and is awarded for a lifetime of innovation and leadership.
COE Hosts Council of Chinese American Deans and Presidents Meeting
President Joseph E. Aoun and Dean Gregory D. Abowd hosted a meeting of the Council of Chinese American Deans and Presidents on September 30, 2022.
Abowd Receives UbiComp 10-year Impact Award
Gregory Abowd, dean of the College of Engineering and professor of ECE, was awarded the UbiComp 10-year Impact Award for his paper “What Next, Ubicomp?: Celebrating an Intellectual Disappearing Act.” The UbiComp conference series is the premiere venue for researchers and practitioners interested in all aspects of ubiquitous and pervasive computing.
Self-Powered Sensorial ‘Skin’ the Future of Motion and Gesture Recognition
Groundbreaking research on flexible photodetectors with computational powers by Canek Fuentes-Hernandez, associate professor, electrical and computer engineering (ECE), and Gregory D. Abowd, dean of the College of Engineering and professor of ECE, has been published in npj Flexible Electronics. The researchers developed a new approach to achieve motion and gesture recognition using arrays of thin and flexible organic photodetectors distributed in space.
$36M DHS Center of Excellence for SENTRY Surveillance System to Protect Public Spaces
Michael Silevitch, Robert D. Black Distinguished Professor of ECE, has been awarded $36 million over 10 years to lead a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) multi-institutional Center of Excellence, SENTRY (Soft target Engineering to Neutralize the Threat Reality). SENTRY will develop a “Virtual Sentry” system that provides just-in-time information to key decision makers to protect civilian soft targets such as transit stations and schools, and crowded spaces such as stadiums from covert threats.
Silevitch to Direct New AI Jumpstart Program
ECE Professor Michael Silevitch will lead a new Massachusetts program, AI Jumpstart, to connect small business owners in the state with academic faculty experts to learn how machine learning can grow their companies. Northeastern received a $2.2 million state grant that will be used primarily for high-speed computer equipment and also to provide for faculty consultants, both of which will be available to selected companies to get the pilot effort up and running. Northeastern kicked in an additional $2 million, raising the program’s total value to more than $4 million.
Welcoming Our New Leader
Gregory Abowd is the new dean of the College of Engineering. In this Q&A, he shares his background and research, the importance of an interdisciplinary approach, as well as plans for leading the College into the future.
Gregory D. Abowd Joins as Dean of the College of Engineering
Gregory D. Abowd joined Northeastern University as Dean of the College of Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in March 2021.