News
Jul 10, 2024
Boosting Solar Energy and Water Purification With Advanced Nanotechnology
ChE Associate Professor Allison Dennis, in collaboration with Bjoern Reinhard from Boston University, was awarded a $708,937 NSF grant for “Interfacial Excitation Transfer in Hybrid Metal/Chalcopyrite Plasmonic Nanostructures.” The research will investigate charge and energy transfer between metal nanostructures and semiconductor nanocrystals through single particle spectroscopy.
Jul 10, 2024
Patent for Advanced Acoustic Metamaterials Enhancing RF Front-End Performance
ECE Associate Professor Cristian Cassella was awarded a patent for “High quality factor integrated acoustic resonant metamaterials with large frequency tuning range for reconfigurable radio-frequency front-ends.”
Jul 10, 2024
Patent for Boosting the Efficiency of Ultra-Low Power Beamforming
ECE Associate Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava was awarded a patent for creating an “Ultra-low power beamforming wireless power transfer system.”
Jul 09, 2024
Developing Methods to Control Cell-State Transitions
BioE/COS Assistant Professor Lei Wang’s research on “Sensing and Guiding Cell-state Transitions by Using Genetically Encoded Endoribonuclease-mediated MicroRNA Sensors” was published in Nature Biomedical Engineering.
Jul 09, 2024
$4.8M NSF Renewal CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service Grant
Khoury/ECE Associate Professor Wil Robertson, ECE Distinguished Professor David Kaeli, and Affiliated Faculty Guevara Noubir were awarded a $4.8 million NSF renewal CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service (SFS) program grant for “Securing the Future: Scholarship for Service at Northeastern University.”
Jul 09, 2024
Yu Elevated to IEEE Senior Member
MGEN Teaching Professor Chen-Hsiang “Jones” Yu has been elevated to a IEEE Senior Member, the organization’s highest professional grade of for which a member may apply. It requires extensive experience and reflects professional accomplishment and maturity. Only 10% of the more than 450,000 members have achieved this level.
Jul 08, 2024
Patent for Self-Synchronizing Radio Technology
ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury, and Research Assistant Professors Ufuk Muncuk and Yousof Naderi were awarded a patent for “Method and apparatus for software defined radio with timing, phase, and frequency synchronization.”
Jul 08, 2024
Announcing 2024 AJC Merit Research Scholars
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Northeastern’s AJC Merit Research Scholarship, which will fund a July to December 2024 co-op in the laboratory of a Northeastern University STEM faculty member.