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Nov 06, 2025
Autonomous Wheelchair Project Positively Impacts Individuals
ECE Professor Taskin Padir talks about an AI-powered autonomous wheelchair that could be an impactful technological advancement for individuals with quadriplegia and other physical conditions.
Nov 04, 2025
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.
Nov 04, 2025
Advancing Innovation and Impact: Highlights from the Northeastern NAI Chapter Fall 2025 Event
MIE Professor Randall Erb and ChE Associate Professor Steve Lustig both participated in the annual meeting of Northeastern University’s National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Chapter to bring together innovators, researchers, and entrepreneurs.
Oct 31, 2025
Strategy for Inventors Placing Talent in Complex Innovation Networks
MIE Associate Professor Babak Heydari’s research on “Core or periphery: Examining where to allocate heterogeneous inventors and the impact on firms’ innovation” was published in the Strategic Management Journal.
Oct 31, 2025
Making Exoskeletons Safe Through Uncertainty
Research conducted by Fatima Mumtaza Tourk, PhD’27, mechanical engineering; Bishoy Galoaa, PhD’29, computer engineering; Sanat Shajan, COS’25; ECE/Khoury Assistant Professor Michael Everett; and Bouvé/MIE Assistant Professor Max Shepherd on “Uncertainty-Aware Ankle Exoskeleton Control” was published in Robotics.
Oct 31, 2025
Plastics Threaten Ocean’s Critical Role in Carbon Uptake
MES/COS/CEE Professor Aron Stubbins published his research on “Plastics in the marine carbon cycle” in Pollution Impacts.
Oct 31, 2025
Turning Coal Waste into Treasure Extracting Critical Rare Earth Elements for Clean Energy
Chemical engineering student Lawrence Ajayi, PhD’28, received the Certificate of Merit (CoM) from the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) Division of Environmental Chemistry (ENVR) for his research on “Effect of alkali-treatment on microwave-assisted rare earth elements extraction from coal mine tailings,” which he presented at the ACS Fall 2025 National Meeting.
Oct 31, 2025
Creating a Single Nanodevice That Displays a Record-High Number of Independent Images
Research conducted by MIE/ECE Professor Yongmin Liu on “Polarization-Encoded Lenticular Nano-Printing with Single-Layer Metasurfaces” was published in Advanced Functional Materials.