News
Oct 09, 2023
Ostadabbas Receives Sony Faculty Innovation Award
ECE Associate Professor Sarah Ostadabbas received the Sony Faculty Innovation Award for her project titled “Live Stream Temporally Embedded 3D Human Body Pose and Shape Estimation.” She is the first at Northeastern to receive this prestigious award.
Sep 15, 2023
Ostadabbas Selected as a Finalist of the Eureka Award of the 2023 Oracle Excellence Award
ECE Associate Professor Sarah Ostadabbas was selected as one of the finalists of the Eureka Award of the 2023 Oracle Excellence Awards. With Oracle for Research, researchers in academic, commercial, and governmental settings, across all disciplines, are exploring novel ways to achieve ground-breaking results to make the world a better place.
Sep 08, 2023
Spinout Company Fourier LLC to Revolutionize Thermal Management
After pioneering thermoforming technical ceramic matrix composites (CMC’s) last year, MIE Associate Professor Randall Erb and mechanical engineering alum Jason Hoffman-Bice, PhD’22, have created a spinout company called Fourier LLC to commercialize their groundbreaking innovation in thermal management.
Aug 24, 2023
Dahiya Speaks at AI for Good Global Summit
ECE Professor Ravinder Dahiya was selected as a speaker for the AI for Good Global Summit: Accelerating the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals which was held in Geneva, Switzerland July 6-7, 2023.
Aug 23, 2023
High School Students Participate in Enabling Engineering Project
High school students participating in an Enabling Engineering internship program designed a training tool to identify and treat femoral hematomas and improved a wheelchair camera mount.
Aug 22, 2023
Understanding the Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Alzheimer’s Disease
BioE Chair and Professor Lee Makowski, in collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital, received a $2.1M NIH for “Fibrillar Polymorphs in Human Brain Tissue.” The research will use x-ray scanning microscopy to observe changes in the molecular structure of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles during disease with the goal of better understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying the disease.
Aug 11, 2023
Ratilal-Makris Selected to Serve on Ocean Research Advisory Panel
ECE Professor Purnima Ratilal-Makris is one of eighteen members selected for the newly formed Ocean Research Advisory Panel (ORAP), who will serve as advisors to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the interagency Ocean Policy Committee (OPC).
Aug 09, 2023
Northeastern Receives One of First Research Grants from CHIPS and Science Act’s $1.5 Billion Fund to Study Next-Gen Wireless Networks
The announcement of the grants was made at Northeastern’s Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex in Boston and was followed by a tour of the Wireless Internet of Things lab. The CHIPS and Science Act provides $1.5 billion over the next decade to support the development of open and interoperable wireless networks.