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Jun 27, 2023

$2M NIH/NHGRI Grant To Develop a Single-Molecule Protein Sequencer Based on Engineered High-Resolution Nanopores

Meni Wanunu, associate professor of physics and bioengineering affiliated faculty member, received a $2 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) for “Asymmetric Single-Chain MspA Nanopores for Electroosmotic Stretching and Sequencing Proteins”.

Bioengineering

raymond fu

Jun 26, 2023

Explainable Anomaly Detection

ECE/Khoury Professor Yun Raymond Fu received a $540,000 Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) grant to address video anomaly detection through deep learning and perturbation techniques.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jun 15, 2023

Indonesia Is Building a New Capital. Will It be a Model Amid Climate Change?

CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly and Professor and Chair Jerome Hajjar emphasize the importance of water management, sustainability, and potential challenges regarding the construction of Indonesia’s new capital city, Nusantara.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Herbert Levine

Jun 12, 2023

$1.2M NSF Award for Understanding Cell-Fate Transitions for Tumor Development

University Distinguished Professor Herbert Levine, physics and bioengineering, in collaboration with Brown University and MD Anderson Cancer Center, is leading a $1.2 million NSF grant for determining the “Regulation of Cellular Stemness During the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT).”

Bioengineering

Jun 12, 2023

Why Comics and Graphic Novels Like ‘Maus’ Are Effective Teaching Tools

ChE Teaching Professor Luke Landherr creates STEM comics that effectively engage students and improve their understanding of complex concepts.

Chemical Engineering

Shahin Shahrampour

Jun 12, 2023

Advancing Distributed Optimization for Non-Convex Problems

MIE Assistant Professor Shahin Shahrampour received a $500,000 NSF grant, in collaboration with Texas A&M University, to address “Consensus and Distributed Optimization in Non-Convex Environments with Applications to Networked Machine Learning.” The project will transform the understanding of consensus and coordination in non-convex environments, and will include educational components to introduce distributed optimization as a practical tool for the next generation of engineers.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jun 05, 2023

Who Has the Best Self-driving Car? Northeastern Robotics Team Captures First Place in Premier Competition

A robotics team led by ECE Assistant Professor Milad Siami won the Self-Driving Car Competition at the American Control Conference (ACC) 2023.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Mahdi Imani and Mohammad Alali

Jun 02, 2023

Best Student Paper Award at ACC 2023

Mohammad Alali, PhD’26, electrical engineering, received the Best Student Paper Award Finalist from the 2023 American Control Conference (ACC 2023) for his paper “Reinforcement Learning Data-Acquiring for Causal Inference of Regulatory Networks,” which was one of the five papers selected for this award.

Electrical & Computer Engineering