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2026 Goldwater Scholarship Nominees
Megan Farrington, E’27, electrical engineering and physics, and Maren Ritterbuck, E’27, bioengineering and biochemistry were nominated for the 2026 Barry Goldwater Scholarship—a highly competitive, merit-based award for outstanding students in mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering who are interested in pursuing careers in research.
Spring 2026 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several COE, Bouvé, COS, DMSB, and Khoury students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of the Spring 2026 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships. This group of students from across the university will explore a wide variety of topics and questions from developing brain-computer interfaces, to analyzing air quiality data to inform future legislation, Socioeconomic Factors impact on twin infants, and more.
New Research Discovers Sensor That Can Detect Single Cancer Cells
ECE Associate Professor Cristian Cassella, Assistant Professors Marco Colangelo, and Siddhartha Ghosh have made a breakthrough in their research on sensors. They have been working on a sensor that can detect objects as small as single cancer cells, which will be incredibly beneficial to the future of medical technology.
Engineering Innovation Makes Quantum Technology More Reliable
Evan Clifford, E’26, electrical engineering, and ECE Assistant Professor Marco Colangelo published their research on “High polarization extinction superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors through grating engineering” in the Journal of Optics.
Colangelo Receives Embassy of Italy Award for Quantum Technology
ECE Assistant Professor Marco Colangelo was selected as the winner of the Embassy of Italy Award for Quantum Technology for his remarkable contributions to the field of quantum technologies, addressing the important challenge of realizing reliable and efficient detection of single photons for building scalable quantum information processing architectures.
New Sensor Design for Early Single-Cell Cancer Diagnosis
ECE Assistant Professors Siddhartha Ghosh, Marco Colangelo, and Associate Professor Cristian Cassella published their research on “Topologically enhanced guided acoustic wave sensors” in Physical Review Applied.
Fall 2025 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several COE, COS, and Khoury students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of the Fall 2025 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
Spring 2025 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several COE, COS, and Khoury students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of the Spring 2025 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
Spring 2025 AJC Merit Research Scholars
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Northeastern’s AJC Merit Research Scholarship, which will fund a co-op in the laboratory of a Northeastern University STEM faculty member.
Quantum Advancements in Light-Matter Interaction
ECE Assistant Professor Marco Colangelo and Associate Professor Cristian Cassella received a $178,896 DARPA grant for their groundbreaking research project, “SuperEMech: Superconducting Electro-Mechanical Platform for Light-Matter Interactions.”
Advancing Sensing Technology With Microdevices
ECE Assistant Professors Marco Colangelo, Benyamin Davaji, and Associate Professor Cristian Cassella had their research on “Localized Topological States Beyond Fano Resonances via Counter-propagating Wave Mode Conversion in Piezoelectric Microelectromechanical Devices” published in Nature Communications.
Revolutionizing Edge Computing With Superconducting Deep Neural Networks
ECE Assistant Professors Marco Colangelo and Francesco Restuccia were awarded a two-year $500,000 DARPA grant for “Superconducting Deep Neural Networks at the Edge.” They aim to reduce end-to-end processing latency by at least three orders of magnitude compared to existing edge computing paradigms without impacting AI performance.
Revolutionizing Quantum Technology With Metamaterial-based Detectors
ECE Assistant Professor Marco Colangelo, Professor Matteo Rinaldi, and Assistant Professor Benyamin Davaji were awarded a $330,000 NSF grant for “Metamaterial-Enabled Superconducting Nanowire Detectors for High Temperature Operation.”
New Faculty Spotlight: Marco Colangelo
Marco Colangelo joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in August 2023 as an Assistant Professor.