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Sep 18, 2024
Understanding the Causes and Implications of Hezbollah Pager Explosions
ECE Professor and Interim Chair Josep Jornet explains what led thousands of explosive-filled pagers planted by the militant group Hezbollah to detonate in parts of Lebanon and Syria, citing a tampered fail-safe mechanism within the pagers as the likely cause.
Sep 17, 2024
Patent for Improved Underwater Acoustic Networking
ECE William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia and Research Assistant Professor Emrecan Demirors were awarded a patent for designing a “Method and apparatus for wireless communications.”
Sep 17, 2024
Patent for Advanced X-Ray Technology for Enhanced Imaging
MIE Professor Yung Joon Jung was awarded a patent for creating an “X-ray detector with interdigitated network.”
Sep 17, 2024
Patent for 3D Auxetic Composite Structures
MIE Associate Professor Yaning Li was awarded a patent for “Three-dimensional auxetic composite structures.”
Sep 17, 2024
Patent for Internally Cooled Nozzle for Enhanced Additive Manufacturing
MIE Assistant Professor Ozan Özdemir was awarded a patent for designing an “Internally cooled aerodynamically centralizing nozzle (ICCN) .”
Sep 17, 2024
Student Club Is Innovating To Lower the Cost of Satellites
Matthew O’Rourke, E’25, mechanical engineering, and Rachel Rakushkin, E’26, electrical engineering, were awarded Mosaic Prototype awards from Northeastern’s Center for Entrepreneurship Education for their work developing technologies to reduce the cost of satellite components as part of the Project Horizons student club.
Sep 13, 2024
Using Computational Models and Deep Learning for Personalized Cancer Treatment
BioE Assistant Research Professor Kiran Vanaja uses computational models and deep learning to predict cancer cell behavior and develop multistep therapeutic strategies for personalized cancer treatment.
Sep 12, 2024
Shi Selected for 35 Innovators Under 35
ECE/Khoury Assistant Professor Weiyan Shi was named as one of MIT’s Tech Review 35 Innovators Under 35 for her work in artificial intelligence and her research in natural language processing and persuasive dialogues.