News
Aug 24, 2021
Using MU-MIMO Controls to Improve Transmission to MAS Edge Servers
ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia, in collaboration with Marco Levorato from the University of California-Irvine, was awarded a $415K NSF grant for “Reliable Task Offloading in Mobile Autonomous Systems Through Semantic MU-MIMO Control.”
Aug 23, 2021
Advancing the Design of Nanoscale Photonic Devices
MIE/ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu was awarded a $400K NSF grant for “Non-Hermitian and Topological Plasmonic Devices for Light Manipulation at the Nanoscale.”
Aug 20, 2021
NU Team PARIS Wins in Phase 1 of American-Made E-ROBOT Prize
A Northeastern faculty and student team was awarded a $200K prize as a finalist for Phase 1 of the U.S. Department of Energy’s American-Made Challenges E-ROBOT Prize. In Phase 2, up to four teams (from the 10 finalists) will receive a $500K award. The team’s submission proposed development of a Precise Air-sealing Robot for Inaccessible Spaces (PARIS). The Northeastern team is advised by ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir, CEE Assistant Professor Michael Kane, and ECE Distinguished Professor Carey Rappaport.
Aug 19, 2021
MIE’s Moghaddam Awarded $2M for Intelligent Extended Reality Research
MIE Assistant Professor Mohsen Moghaddam was awarded a $2M NSF grant for “Fostering Learning and Adaptability of Future Manufacturing Workers with Intelligent Extended Reality (IXR).”
Aug 18, 2021
Keeping Supercomputers Running Effectively
ECE Assistant Professor Devesh Tiwari has developed methods to find and predict hardware failures and optimize the data storage in the world’s fastest supercomputers.
Aug 18, 2021
New Faculty Spotlight: Kristen Dorsey
Kristen Dorsey joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in August 2021 as an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences.
Aug 18, 2021
New Faculty Spotlight: Canek Fuentes Hernandez
Canek Fuentes Hernandez joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in August 2021 as an Associate Professor.
Aug 18, 2021
New Faculty Spotlight: Fatemeh Ghoreishi
Fatemeh Ghoreishi joins the Civil and Environmental Engineering department in August 2021 as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in Khoury College of Computer Sciences.