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2025 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.
Patent Awarded for Ultrabroadband Wireless Communications
ECE Professor & Associate Dean for Research Josep Jornet was awarded a patent for “System and method for real-time ultrabroadband wireless communications.”
New Satellite Connectivity Technology Rapidly Improves Communication
ECE Professor and Associate Dean for Research Josep Jornet talks about new satellite connectivity technology found in the Apple Watch Ultra 3 and Google Pixel Watch 4, and how the technology will positively impact and rapidly improve satellite communication.
Electrical PhD Receives Young Scientist Award for Terahertz Brain Research
Samar Elmaadawy, PhD’25, electrical engineering, advised by ECE Professor & Associate Dean for Research Josep Jornet, received the URSI AP-RASC 2025 Young Scientist Award for her paper on “Cerebral Organoids Respond to Sub-Terahertz and Terahertz Radiation” which she will present at the 2025 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference in Sydney, Australia, in August 2025.
Best Paper Award for Terahertz Wireless Safety Research
Samar Elmaadawy, PhD’25, electrical engineering, and ECE Professor & Associate Dean for Research Josep Jornet’s paper on “Thermal and SAR-Based Limits for Human Skin Exposed to Terahertz Radiation” won the Best Paper Award at the 5th International Telecommunications Conference (ITC-Egypt’2025) in July 2025.
IEEE Best Paper Award for Terahertz Band Communication Research
ECE Professor & Associate Dean for Research Josep Jornet’s research on “Terahertz Band Communication: An Old Problem Revisited and Research Directions for the Next Decade” received the 2025 IEEE Communications Society Best Survey Paper Award, which will be presented at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2025 ceremony in Taipei, Taiwan, in December 2025.
Building the Future of AI-Ready Wireless Testbeds
ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia and ECE Professor & Associate Dean for Research Josep Jornet, in collaboration with Princeton University, Florida International University, and SUNY Polytechnic Institute, were awarded a $200,000 NSF grant for “DHARMA.AI Digital Hardware + Analog-RF for Multifunctional Apertures with AI.”
Breakthroughs In Next-Generation Wireless Communication
ECE Professor and Associate Dean for Research Josep Jornet, in collaboration with Princeton University (lead), Florida International University, and New York University, was awarded a $1.2M NSF grant for “Resilient Multi-User Mobile sub-THz Networks using Near-Field Wavefronts.”
PhD Spotlight: Duschia Bodet, PhD’25, Electrical Engineering
Duschia Bodet, PhD’25, electrical engineering, conducts research at the forefront of wireless communications with a focus on modulation techniques and beam control for sub-terahertz, multiple antenna systems. In addition to being published, she won Best Paper Award at GLOBECOM and received the Paul Baran Young Scholar Award from the Marconi Society.
Unlocking Ultra-Broadband Satellite Connectivity With 6G Technology
Sergi Aliaga, PhD’27, and Hussam Abdellatif, PhD’25, both electrical engineering majors, are pioneering ultra-high-frequency communications for 6G satellite systems to revolutionize ultra-broadband space connectivity by enhancing data speeds and bandwidth efficiency. They received a patent for one of their ideas.
Report on Strategic Engineering for Next-Gen Wireless Competitiveness
ECE Professor and Associate Dean for Research Josep Jornet, who is co-director of the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things at Northeastern, co-organized the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA) visioning event that led to the report, “Strategic Engineering for Next-Generation Wireless Competitiveness.”
Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things Hosts Industry Conference, Showcases Research
The Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things highlighted its leadership role in wireless and smart connected systems research at its two-day conference, “Toward Open 6G Networks.” The institute plays an essential role in fostering partnerships between industry, government, and universities to develop wireless technologies for the future.
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.
Faculty and Staff Awards 2025
Faculty and staff were recognized at the 27th Annual College of Engineering Faculty and Staff Awards for their exceptional service and dedication in support of students, the COE community, and the university during the 2024-2025 academic year.
Jornet Delivers Keynote at IEEE CCNC 2025
ECE Professor and Associate Dean for Research Josep Jornet gave a keynote speech on “Terahertz Communications: From the Near Field to Space Networks” at the IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference.
Developing Worldwide High-Speed Internet Access via Satellite
A group of COE faculty led by ECE Professor and Interim Chair Josep Jornet is partnering with student group Project Horizon and Morehead State University to develop what could be the world’s first sub-THz wireless satellite network testbed.
Patent for Smart Reflectarray
ECE Professor and Interim Chair Josep Jornet was awarded a patent for “Smart metal-graphene hybrid reflectarray at THz frequencies.”
Phones Unlikely To Be Rigged With Explosive Devices Like Pagers
ECE Professor and Interim Chair Josep Jornet was featured in the CBC News article “Can Phones Be Rigged To Explode Like the Pagers in Lebanon? Experts Say It’s Possible — […]
Understanding the Causes and Implications of Hezbollah Pager Explosions
ECE Professor and Interim Chair Josep Jornet explains what led thousands of explosive-filled pagers planted by the militant group Hezbollah to detonate in parts of Lebanon and Syria, citing a tampered fail-safe mechanism within the pagers as the likely cause.
Major Consequences of IT Outage
ECE/Khoury Professor Kevin Fu and ECE Professor and Interim Chair Josep Jornet explain the causes and implications of the Microsoft tech outage that grounded flights from major airlines and limited healthcare and financial services worldwide.
Developing the World’s First Sub-THz Satellite Network Platform
ECE Professor and Interim Chair Josep Jornet, MIE Professor Andrew Gouldstone, ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury, ECE William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia, and ECE/COS Professor Ken Duffy, in collaboration with the Morehead State University Space Science Center, were awarded a $750,000 NSF grant for the “Development Towards a Community Research Platform for Sub-THz Satellite Communication Networks.”
Discovery Highlights ‘Critical Oversight’ in Perceived Security of Wireless Networks
Sherif Badran, PhD’26, electrical engineering, and ECE Professor Josep Jornet were featured in the Rice University article “Discovery Highlights ‘Critical Oversight’ in Perceived Security of Wireless Networks.”
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).
Widespread AT&T Outages May Have Had Multiple Possible Causes
ECE Assistant Research Professor Michele Polese and ECE Professor Josep Jornet suggest many possible causes of the widespread AT&T cellphone outages Thursday morning.
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.
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.
6G Could Pull Double Duty To Monitor Climate Change
The collaborative research between Northeastern University and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on “Climate Change Sensing Through Terahertz Communication Infrastructure: A Disruptive Application of 6G Networks” was published in IEEE Network.
WIoT Team Wins Best Paper Award at IEEE Globecom 2023
Several College of Engineering faculty and students affiliated with the Institute for Wireless Internet of Things, together with the IMDEA Networks Institute of Madrid, received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2023.
Reshaping Spectrum Sharing Above 100 GHz
ECE Professors Josep Jornet (PI) and Tommaso Melodia, and Principal Research Scientists Michele Polese, Michael Marcus, and Associate Research Scientist Vitaly Petrov, in collaboration with Steven Reising from Colorado State University, were awarded a $750,000 NSF grant for “DASS: Dynamically Adjustable Spectrum Sharing Between Ground Communication Networks and Earth Exploration Satellite Systems Above 100 GHz.”
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.
Collaborative Research in THz Communication for 6G Mobile Networks
ECE Associate Professor Josep Jornet and Principal Research Scientist Michele Polese were awarded a $456,000 NSF grant for “Enabling Mobile Terahertz Communication for 6G Cellular Networks.”
Jornet Receives Best Demo Award at ACM HotMobile 2023
ECE Associate Professor Josep Jornet received the Best Demo Award at the 24th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile) for the work titled “Adversarial Aerial Metasurfaces,” with […]
Enhancing Communication and Sensing at Terahertz Frequencies With Programmable Electromagnetic Surfaces
ECE Associate Professor Josep Jornet (PI), Assistant Professor Cristian Casella, Assistant Professor Ben Davaji, and Associate Research Scientist for the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things Vitaly Petrov were awarded a $500,000 AFOSR grant titled “Programmable Electromagnetic Surfaces Based on Ferroelectric and Antiferroelectric Hafnium Zirconium Oxide Films and Graphene for Terahertz Communications and Sensing.”
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.
Expanding Wireless Coverage Using High-Frequency Terahertz Technology
ECE Associate Professor Josep Jornet is using high-frequency terahertz technology to communicate over longer distances.
Jornet Receives the 2022 IEEE WTC Outstanding Young Researcher Award
ECE Associate Professor Josep Jornet received the 2022 IEEE WTC Outstanding Young Researcher Award for his pioneering contributions to the field of terahertz communications.
2022 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations
A group of 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.
Fall 2022 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Northeastern’s Fall 2022 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
Jornet Receives Best Paper Award at IEEE WoWMOM Workshop on 6G-Non Terrestrial Networks
ECE Associate Professor Josep Jornet received the Best Paper Award at the Second IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on 6G Non-terrestrial Networks, for the work titled “Joint Terahertz Communication and Atmospheric Sensing in Low Earth Orbit Satellite Networks: Physical Layer Design”, with electrical engineering PhD students Sergi Aliaga and Ali Al Qaraghuli.
Making 6G Possible: Time Sharing Demonstrated for the First Time in the Terahertz Band
The Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things has developed methods to move beyond the 5G frequencies into the higher terahertz bandwidths needed for 6G.
Nature Communications Engineering Paper on Dynamic Spectrum Sharing Above 100 GHz
ECE researchers had their research on “Dynamic Spectrum Sharing between Active and Passive Users Above 100 GHz” published in the first issue of Nature Communications Engineering journal.
Jornet Selected for IEEE RCC Early Achievement Award and as Distinguished Lecturer
ECE Associate Professor Josep Jornet received the 2022 IEEE Radio Communications Committee (RCC) Early Achievement Award and was selected as an IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Distinguished Lecturer for 2022 and 2023.
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 […]
Terahertz research: The road to 6G with Northeastern University
ECE Associate Professor Josep Jornet was recently featured in 5G Technology World, discussing the possibilities in wireless data communications. Article Excerpt: Jornet focuses on developing the terahertz air interfaces needed […]
$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.”
Josep Jornet Awarded Best Paper at the IEEE WoWMoM 6G Non-terrestrial Networks (NTN) Workshop
ECE Associate Professor Josep Jornet received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE WoWMoM 6G Non-terrestrial Networks (NTN) Workshop, for the work titled “Performance Analysis of a Dual Terahertz/Ka Band Communication System for Satellite Mega-Constellations”, led by his students Ali Al Qaraghuli, PhD’24, and Hussam Abdellatif, PhD’24.
Jornet Receives IEEE INFOCOM Best Paper Award
ECE Associate Professor Josep Jornet’s paper on “Uplink Multi-User Beamforming on Single RFChain mmWave WLANs” was received the best paper award at the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications.
Engaging Research from the Start
Curiosity and engagement are top traits of high-potential talented students. To tap into and nurture this excitement, the College of Engineering introduced an innovative program in Fall 2020: Undergraduate Program for Leaders In Future Transformation (UPLIFT). UPLIFT Scholars are paired with a faculty mentor and work in their mentor’s lab conducting research starting their first semester of their first year of study at Northeastern.
Autonomous Cars Drive Terahertz Research
ECE Associate Professor Josep Jornet was recently interviewed by the SPIE (the International Society for Optics and Photonics) about the use of terahertz technologies in the future of autonomous cars. […]
Investigating Neuronal Networks Through Optogenomics
ECE Associate Professor Josep Jornet (PI), Professor Matteo Rinaldi, and Assistant Professor Hui Fang, in collaboration with Michal Stachowiak and Yongho Bae from the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, was awarded a $600K NSF grant for “Control of Information Processing and Learning in Neuronal Networks through Light-mediated Programming of Genomic Networks.”
Using Lasers and Light for Faster Internet
ECE Associate Professor Josep Jornet is manipulating lasers and the properties of light to enable faster and better internet connections.
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.
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.
Jornet Publishes Paper in the Journal ‘Science’ on Tunable Topological Charge Vortex Microlaser
ECE Associate Professor Josep Jornet published a collaborative paper in the prestigious journal Science, titled: “Tunable Topological Charge Vortex Microlaser.” With COVID-19, the volume of information that the Internet needs to carry has drastically increased. To be able to keep up with the user needs and enable new forms of online interaction, new ways to be able to transmit more information over existing infrastructure are needed. In collaboration with groups at the University of Pennsylvania and Duke University, Jornet and the research team have theoretically designed and experimentally demonstrated the first on-chip tunable laser for orbital angular momentum (OAM) modulation and multiplexing.
Jornet Awarded $900K NSF Grant to Help Further 6G Possibilities
ECE Associate Professor Josep Jornet was recently awarded a $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to be part of a collaborative project ($2.7 million total) focused on developing new Terahertz (THz) devices and their control algorithms.
NU Prof. Awarded Air Force Grant for Terahertz Comms Research
ECE Associate Professor Josep Jornet was awarded an AFRL grant for “Protocol Stack Design for Frequency-agile Ultra-broadband Airborne Networks in the THz Band,” and aims to design, analyze, and experimentally demonstrate new THz communication protocols for airborne networks.
New Faculty Spotlight: Josep Jornet
Josep Jornet joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in August 2019 as an Associate Professor.