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Jun 14, 2022
First Year UPLIFT Scholar’s Research Leads to Summer REU at Harvard University
During her first year as an UPLIFT Scholar, Kaitlyn Ramesh, E’25, bioengineering, conducted research under the mentorship of Mingyang Lu, assistant professor of bioengineering and researcher in the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics. She worked on developing a pseudotime algorithm that uses temporal single-cell RNA sequencing data. From this experience, Ramesh was selected for a Research Experiences for Undergraduates summer program at Harvard University. She will work at a biophysics lab involved in the Harvard Quantitative Biology Initiative.
Jun 14, 2022
Sontag Awarded 2022 Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award
University Distinguished Professor Eduardo Sontag, electrical and computer engineering, jointly appointed in bioengineering, received the 2022 Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award—the highest recognition in control theory and engineering in the United States.
Jun 13, 2022
Imani Awarded $590K NIH Trailblazer Grant for Mathematical Modeling of Microbial Communities
ECE Assistant Professor Mahdi Imani was awarded a $590K NIH Trailblazer R21 grant for New and Early Stage Investigators from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) for “Bayesian Dynamical Modeling of Microbial Communities”.
Jun 09, 2022
Padir Selected as Northeastern’s First Amazon Scholar
ECE Associate Professor Taskin Padir was selected as Northeastern University’s first Amazon Scholar and will be bringing his human-centered approach to robotics to the company’s fleet of drivers.
Jun 09, 2022
Aerospace Minor Taking Off in Seattle
An eight-week residency in Seattle, that includes dozens of industry site visits, is a core part of a new aerospace minor in the College of Engineering that launched in the […]
Jun 09, 2022
Northeastern Electric Racing Wins 2nd Place
The Northeastern Electric Racing team placed 2nd in the all-electric vehicle category at the 2022 Formula Hybrid+Electric Competition, their first in-person competition after having spent the past 5 years building our first-ever vehicle and competing virtually the past 2 years.
Jun 09, 2022
NURobotics Team Goes from Dormant to One of Largest Groups on Campus
While the NURobotics team was not active during the pandemic, it has grown to 470 members and won the Phoenix Award in April for its rapid ground-up redevelopment and community engagement.
Jun 09, 2022
MatrixSpace Startup Works to Connect People and Intelligent Machines
MIE Associate Professor Jose Martinez Lorenzo’s startup MatrixSpace is working to improve the collaboration between humans and artificially intelligent machines, while still keeping humans in charge.