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Aug 21, 2023
ECE PhD Student Places Second at SIGMETRICS 2023
Yuanyuan Li, PhD’23, computer engineering, supervised by ECE Professor Stratis Ioannidis, won second place at the student research competition for her work on “Distributed Experimental Design Networks” at the ACM SIGMETRICS 2023 conference.

Aug 09, 2023
CEE PhD Student Receives SEAMASS Scholarship
Baiyu Chen, a civil and environmental engineering PhD student, has been awarded the Structural Engineers Association of Massachusetts (SEAMASS) scholarship. SEAMASS is a non-profit, member-driven organization that holds a mission to advance the structural engineering profession.

Aug 03, 2023
Fei’s Group Receives ACM Distinguished Papers Award
Computer engineering graduate students Ruyi Ding, PhD’24, Cheng Gongye, PhD’23, Siyue Wang, PhD’22, Mathematics Professor A. Adam Ding, and ECE Professor Yunsi Fei were awarded a Distinguished Papers Award at the 18th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security for their paper on “EMShepherd: Detecting Adversarial Samples via Side-channel Leakage.”

Jul 12, 2023
Selected as Runner-Up in SB3C Student Paper Competition
Ana I. Vargas, PhD’24, bioengineering, was chosen as the runner-up in the Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, & Biotransport Conference (SB3C) Student Paper Competition for the “Morphogenesis, Maternal/Abdominal Health” competition category.

Jul 01, 2023
CEE Co-ops Wins Spring 2023 Scholarships from DN Tanks
Civil engineering students Catherine Yates and Meilin Garfinkel won Spring 2023 scholarships from their co-op employer DN Tanks, a company specializing in engineering concrete tanks for a wide variety of water, wastewater, fuel, and other infrastructure and industrial purposes.
Jun 30, 2023
Best Paper Award at ACM HPDC 2023
Baolin Li, PhD’24, computer engineering, and ECE Associate Professor Devesh Tiwari received the Karsten Schwan Best Paper Award at the 32nd ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC) for their paper on “Kairos: Building Cost-Efficient Machine Learning Inference Systems With Heterogeneous Cloud Resources.”

Jun 05, 2023
Who Has the Best Self-driving Car? Northeastern Robotics Team Captures First Place in Premier Competition
A robotics team led by ECE Assistant Professor Milad Siami won the Self-Driving Car Competition at the American Control Conference (ACC) 2023.

Jun 02, 2023
Best Student Paper Award at ACC 2023
Mohammad Alali, PhD’26, electrical engineering, received the Best Student Paper Award Finalist from the 2023 American Control Conference (ACC 2023) for his paper “Reinforcement Learning Data-Acquiring for Causal Inference of Regulatory Networks,” which was one of the five papers selected for this award.