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Apr 08, 2024
Revealing the Origins of Northeastern Hillel and Its First Building Donated by 1925 Alumnus
The story of Julius Abrams, 1925 engineering graduate, and his contributions to Northeastern, were shared by his daughter, Fay Wilgoren, a 96-year-old senior center resident at Hebrew Senior Life. A founding member of NU Hillel in 1962, Abrams bought and donated its first building.
Apr 05, 2024
Neurodiversity Awareness and Support Presentation at CEIA Conference
Erik Brenner, director of diversity initiatives and neurodiversity support, and Maricla Pirozzi, program director for MS programs in multidisciplinary engineering, at Northeastern University’s College of Engineering will speak on neurodiversity awareness and support in higher education and on co-op at the CEIA National Conference in Tampa, Florida, April 7-9.
Apr 05, 2024
Ramezani’s Student Selected as NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Fellow
Henry Noyes, an undergraduate mathematics and physics student who works in ECE Assistant Professor Alireza Ramezani’s Silicon Synapse Lab, was selected as a NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Fellow for his project on “Autonomous Navigation and Multi-Modal Path Planning in Lunar Craters Using a Modular Snake-like Robot.”
Apr 05, 2024
Expanding a Structural Engineering Co-op Into a Full-Time Position
Terenia Hankewycz, civil engineering, E’22, was able to go more in-depth with each co-op in the civil engineering industry. With a particular focus on structural engineering, she returned to one of her co-ops full-time after graduation.
Apr 05, 2024
Taking Advantage of a Long-Awaited Co-op Abroad
After two co-ops locally, Reem Gawish, E’24, civil engineering, had her third and final co-op at F-1 in Singapore working at the F-1 racetrack helping the team prepare for the year’s Singapore Grand Prix.
Apr 05, 2024
Using Machine Learning To Revolutionize Drug Discovery
Xuezhu Cai, PhD’20, bioengineering, used her LEADERs fellowship with Merck to develop a new machine learning pipeline to ensure accurate data in drug discovery. She is now a senior scientist there.
Apr 05, 2024
Ghosh Receives NSF CAREER Award for Novel Microsystems To Advance Integrated Signal Processing
ECE Assistant Professor Siddhartha Ghosh received an NSF CAREER Award for “Semiconductor on Nitride PhoXonic Integrated Circuit (SONIC) Platform for Chip-Scale RF and Optical Signal Processing,” to develop novel microsystems that seamlessly integrate signal processing of multiple domains to advance RF communications and information processing, as well as quantum computing
Apr 04, 2024
Patent for Transforming Wireless Communication With Deep Learning
ECE William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia and Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia were awarded a patent for “Deep learning-based polymorphic platform.”