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Evan Kodra

Jul 27, 2022

Alum Evan Kodra Is Driven To Make a Difference

Evan Kodra, PhD’14, interdisciplinary engineering, co-founded risQ, a startup that factors the impacts of climate change and social equity into municipal investment decisions. With its success, he also established a graduate fellowship for future climate-change researchers at Northeastern’s College of Engineering.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Ozlem Ergun

Jul 25, 2022

Expert: As Climate Change Continues, Heat Waves and Power Outages Will Too

From Acton to Falmouth to Boston, the seven-day heat wave saw a flurry of power outages. “Basically, what happens, the network gets overloaded,” explained Dr. Ozlem Ergun, a Professor of […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Yanzhi Wang

Jul 25, 2022

Wang Organized the ROAD4NN Workshop at DAC 2022

Yanzhi Wang, associate professor at ECE, organized the ROAD4NN workshop: International Workshop on Research Open Automatic Design for Neural Networks held on July 10, 2022, at the Design Automation Conference […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jul 22, 2022

Record Temperatures Impacting Health and Infrastructure

CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly and MES/CEE Assistant Professor Samuel Munoz have been predicting that climate change would lead to record-breaking temperatures that would affect people’s health and dangerous environmental conditions.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Jul 22, 2022

Six Engineering Spinouts Selected as Eddies Finalists

Six spinout companies that were created by engineering faculty have been selected as finalists for the Massachusetts Innovation Network’s innovation competition, The Eddies. Every year, the Massachusetts Innovation Network hosts […]

Chemical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jiahe Li

Jul 21, 2022

Li Receives Grant to Protect Against Poultry Diseases

The laboratory of BioE Assistant Professor JIahe Li received an industry grant from Eco Animal Science in the United Kingdom, one of the largest global animal health companies, to develop genetically modified probiotics against enteric diseases in poultry.

Bioengineering

Julia Hopkins

Jul 19, 2022

Boston Public Radio Full Show: July 19, 2022

Julia Hopkins explained the focus of her “Emerald Tutu” project, which would create a skirt of floating greenery along the most vulnerable parts of Boston’s shore. Hopkins is an assistant […]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Xiaolin Xu

Jul 18, 2022

Creating Defenses Against Multi-Tenant ML Cloud-FPGA Vulnerabilities

ECE Assistant Professor Xiaolin Xu, in collaboration with Arizona State University, was awarded a $500K NSF grant to design a “Secure and Robust Machine Learning in Multi-Tenant Cloud FPGA.”

Electrical & Computer Engineering