News
Mar 17, 2021
Zheng Selected as NASA Glenn Faculty Fellow
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng was selected to be a NASA Glenn Faculty Fellow in the area of “Harsh Environment Sensor Development” during summer 2021.
Mar 15, 2021
NSF CAREER Award for Smart Thermostats for Energy Management and Occupant Comfort
Assistant Professor Michael Kane, civil and environmental engineering, was awarded a $763K NSF CAREER Award for “Human-Centric Automation in the Built Environment.” The project will enable the design of automation in the built environment that models human physiological and behavioral responses to changing environmental temperature conditions to satisfy competing objectives of energy management and occupant […]
Mar 15, 2021
Fu Receives Adobe Data Science Research Award
ECE/Khoury Professor Yun Raymond Fu received a $50K 2021 Adobe Data Science Research Award for his proposal on “Time-Aware Causal Embedding for Personalized Digital Marketing.”
Mar 03, 2021
ECE PhD Student Wins 1st Place at CGO 2021
Computer Engineering PhD student Malith Jayaweera won First Place in the student research competition at the International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO) 2021 for his research on “Data vs Instructions: Runtime Code Generation for Convolutions”.
Mar 03, 2021
Investigating the Defense-Related Responses of Plants
ChE/COS Associate Professor Carolyn Lee-Parsons and BioE Affiliated Faculty member Erin Cram were awarded an $800K NSF grant for creating ” A Novel CRISPR SynBio Tool for Investigating and Reprogramming the Regulation of Alkaloid Biosynthesis in Catharanthus roseus.”
Mar 02, 2021
Gregory D. Abowd Joins as Dean of the College of Engineering
Gregory D. Abowd joined Northeastern University as Dean of the College of Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in March 2021.
Feb 25, 2021
Improving Flood Monitoring Methods
ECE Assistant Professor Pau Closas, Professor Deniz Erdogmus, CEE Professor Edward Beighley, and ECE Postdoc Tales Imbiriba were awarded a $98K grant from the National Geographic Society’s Committee for Research and Exploration for “Spaceborne Multispectral Image Fusion for Water Mapping and Flood Management”.
Feb 23, 2021
Frias Receives Black Heritage Award
Academic Program Assistant Luis Frias received the “Black Heritage Award” which is given to Northeastern staff and administrators in recognition of their years of dedicated service to Northeastern, to students, and in some cases to the John D. O’Bryant African American Institute.