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Jan 23, 2026
Spring 2026 AJC Merit Research Mentors
Bouvé/ECE Assistant Professor Mathew Yarossi and MIE/ECE Professor Yongmin Liu will mentor two recipients of Northeastern’s AJC Spring 2026 Merit Research Scholarship, which will fund a co-op in the laboratory of a Northeastern University STEM faculty member.
Jan 22, 2026
Driven by Impact: A Bioengineering Researcher’s Story
Mahsa Karamzadeh, PhD ’27, bioengineering, blends her passion for engineering and call to service to fuel her research. Recently, Karamzadeh and her team published their study on Chiari Type 1 patients in the Magnetic Resonance Imaging journal.
Jan 22, 2026
Fu and Melodia Selected as ACM Fellows
ECE Distinguished/Khoury Professor Yun Raymond Fu and William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia were named Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery. Fu for contributions to representation learning, computer vision, face and gesture recognition and Melodia for contributions to open radio access network architectures and AI-native wireless networks.
Jan 21, 2026
Motivation Leads to Action for Sydnie Bayles
Sydnie Bayles, BS’26, chemical engineering, has brought her love for science and philanthropy to Northeastern, participating in many co-ops and extracurriculars. Recently, Bayles and her lab partner, Marissa Darcangelo, garnered a first-place award presenting their research at AIChE 2025.
Jan 20, 2026
Patent for Advanced AI Technology to Track and Stop Cancer Cell Growth
BioE Assistant Research Professor Kiran Vanaja was awarded a patent for “Multi-dimensional phenotypic space for genotype to phenotype mapping and intelligent design of cancer drug therapies using a deep learning net.”
Jan 20, 2026
Patent for Advanced Subharmonic Identification Tags
ECE Associate Professor Cristian Cassella was awarded a patent for “Ultra-high-frequency subharmonic tags for passive and far-field identification.”
Jan 20, 2026
A Link Across the Ocean Using Biomarkers in Oil
Assistant Professor Bryan James, chemical engineering, shares his research regarding the 2019 oil spill in Brazil, linking it to a German supply ship through biomarkers.
Jan 20, 2026
Transforming Specialized Research into Medical Device Innovation
Zhengxuan Wei, PhD ’26, mechanical engineering, creates insightful medical innovations and protocols at Fresenius Medical Care through his placement from the LEADERs program.