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Sep 23, 2022
Singh Receives IEEEOES 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award
ECE/MIE Professor Hanuman Singh received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society for his work on autonomous underwater vehicles.
Sep 23, 2022
Do Micro-Level Social Interaction Parameters Effect Pandemic Policy Success?
MIE Associate Professor Babak Heydari’s research on “Micro-level Social Structures and the Success of COVID-19 National Policies” was published in the Nature Computational Science journal. The study shows that the micro-level structure of person-to-person interactions—measured by average household size and in-person social contact rate—can be an important explanatory factor in the success of COVID-19 policy.
Sep 20, 2022
Northeastern in Top 100 Universities with U.S. Utility Patents
For the seventh consecutive year, Northeastern University has appeared in the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) list of Top 100 Universities that were granted U.S. utility patents in 2021, cementing it as a world leader in academia and research.
Sep 20, 2022
Fall 2022 Spark Fund Awardees
Bouve/ChE University Distinguished Professor Mansoor Amiji, ChE Assistant Professor Sara Hashmi, ECE Professor Purnima Ratilal-Makris, and MIE Assistant Professor Mohsen Moghaddam are recipients of the Fall 2022 Spark Fund Awards. The goal of the award is to advance a technology or suite of technologies from academia towards commercialization.
Sep 19, 2022
Ostadabbas Paper Wins Best Scientific Paper Award at the ICPR 2022
The paper entitled “InfAnFace: Bridging the infant-adult domain gap in facial landmark estimation in the wild,” authored by ECE Assistant Professor Sarah Ostadabbas and her team at the Augmented Cognition Lab, received the Best Scientific Paper Award in the Biomedical Track at the 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2022).
Sep 16, 2022
Designing the Next Generation of AI-Driven Dynamic Spectrum Access Systems
ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia, in collaboration with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (lead) and Florida International University, was awarded a $750K NSF grant for “SWIFT: AI-based Sensing for Improved Resiliency via Spectral Adaptation with Lifelong Learning.” The project will demonstrate a system for spectral situational awareness through radio frequency machine learning.
Sep 16, 2022
New Techniques of Treating Breast Cancer
ChE Professor Debra Auguste is developing a new targeted approach to treating triple-negative breast cancer–a form of the disease more prevalent in younger women, with a higher rate of mortality among African American women. By using ultra-deformable liposomes, drugs intended to combat the cancer can be applied to the source with more accuracy, increasing their effectiveness.
Sep 15, 2022
Developing an Ankle Exoskeleton to Assist the Mobility of Older Adults
MIE Assistant Professor Seungmoon Song was awarded a $747K NIH grant from the National Institute of Aging for “Simulation Framework to Develop Ankle Exoskeleton Gait Assistance for Older Adults.” The study will develop and evaluate how ankle-exoskeleton assistance affects metabolic energy consumption, walking speed, and pain during walking in healthy young and older adults, as well as in older adults with knee osteoarthritis.