News
Jul 02, 2025
Developing Data-Enabled Methods for Material Characterization and Design
MIE Assistant Professor Juner Zhu and Research Scientist Wei Li were awarded a $500,000 NSF three-year grant for “Mechanics Informatics for Learning Constitutive Models: Theory, Computation, and Uncertainty Quantification.”
Jul 02, 2025
Zheng Selected as Fulbright Scholar Awardee
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng was selected to receive the distinguished Fulbright Scholar Award for 2025-2026.
Jul 01, 2025
Shrivastava Receives DARPA Director’s Fellowship
ECE Associate Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava has been awarded the highly selective DARPA Director’s Fellowship Award.
Jul 01, 2025
Xu Honored with DAC Under-40 Innovators Award
ECE Assistant Professor Xiaolin Xu was named a recipient of the 2025 IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) Under-40 Innovators Award.
Jun 25, 2025
GLP-1 Weight Loss Drug Prices Are Unlikely To Decrease in the Near Future
Bouvé/ChE University Distinguished Professor Mansoor Amiji says people seeking weight loss drugs may be able to get help from patient financial assistance programs and alternative medications. Mounjaro weight loss drug’s active ingredient—semaglutide—is no longer in short supply, so less expensive GLP-1 compounded versions are no longer available.
Jun 25, 2025
Hajjar Receives 2025 William H. Wisely American Civil Engineer Award
CEE University Distinguished and CDM Smith Professor Jerome Hajjar was selected to receive the 2025 William H. Wisely American Civil Engineer Award for his exceptional “leadership in advancing civil engineering education, computational analysis, experimental testing, field investigation, and design of resilient and sustainable steel and composite steel/concrete buildings, bridges, and infrastructure systems; regional simulation; structural stability; and earthquake engineering.”
Jun 24, 2025
Newly Founded Plastics Center Strives for Innovative Solutions to Plastic Waste
MES/COS/CEE Professor Aron Stubbins will co-direct the new Plastics Center at Northeastern University. The center’s goal is to bring together plastic researchers and expand knowledge about plastics and public policy.
Jun 23, 2025
NSF CAREER Award To Advance Multi-Agent Network Optimization Foundations
MIE Assistant Professor Shahin Shahrampour was awarded a $515,000 NSF CAREER grant for “Foundations of Scalable, Fast, and Online Decentralized Manifold Optimization in Multi-Agent Networks.” The project takes a substantial step toward the development and adoption of decentralized manifold optimization in large-scale, multi-agent optimization. Manifold optimization is instrumental in control and engineering applications.