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Sep 16, 2026
Empowered by Service: Teaching Boston’s Kids to Think Like Engineers
Catherine Connolly, E’28, chemical engineering, serves as the president of Roxbury Robotics, an engineering service-learning club. As she navigates structural and logistic changes to the club, she highlights their recent successes, and the reasons why she is devoted to the cause.
Sep 15, 2026
Shrivastava Awarded NIH R01 Grant for Creating Smart Implants for Managing Brain Disorders
ECE Associate Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava was awarded a $1.2M grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for “Transforming Brain Disorder Management through Ultra-Low-Power ML Implants.”
Sep 15, 2026
Advances Quantum Computing Communication Using Magnons
ECE Assistant Professor Xufeng Zhang is developing small-scale magnetic systems utilizing tiny quantum waves called magnons to help future quantum computers communicate with one another.
Sep 15, 2026
Patent for Radar Technology That Enhances 3D Imaging and Signal Clarity
MIE/ECE Professor Jose Martinez Lorenzo was awarded a patent for “Millimeter-wave massive MIMO FMCW radar with binary-phase-coded OFDM.”
Sep 14, 2026
Sherman Awarded NIH Career Development Grant to Advance Neurofeedback Therapy for Knee Osteoarthritis Pain
Assistant Professor David Alexander Sherman, jointly appointed in the physical therapy, movement, and rehabilitation sciences, as well as electrical and computer engineering, has received a prestigious K23 Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health, a five-year grant supporting his research into neurofeedback therapies for knee osteoarthritis pain.
Sep 14, 2026
Making Sure Students Understand the Code in the Age of AI
To address the challenges of artificial intelligence in the classroom, ECE Professor Hanumant Singh pairs homework assignments with corresponding in-person quizzes, using the lower of the two grades as the final score to ensure students truly understand the material even when utilizing AI tools.
Sep 14, 2026
Understanding the Body: Lucas McCauley’s Pursuit of Better Human Health
Lucas McCauley, E’26, bioengineering and biochemistry, has a constant curiosity of the limits of the human body combined with engineering. With a motivation to help other people through research, McCauley has been awarded the Fulbright RCSI PhD Award and will pursue his PhD at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, researching novel ways to model and treat chronic lung disease.
Sep 11, 2026
Imani Receives Air Force Young Investigator Program Award
Mahdi Imani, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University, has received an Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) award for research on AI reasoning and human-AI collaboration. The three-year, $450,000 award supports his project, “Foundations of Trust and Influence in Human-AI Teams: Identifiability, Causal Measurement, and Stability”.