News
Apr 24, 2014
SDM14 Best Paper Award
Computer Engineering PhD student Sheng Li and ECE & CCIS Assistant Professor Y. Raymond Fu were awarded the Best Paper Award at the prestigious SIAM International Conference on Data Mining for their paper on "Robust Subspace Discovery through Supervised Low-Rank Constraints". Only 1 paper out of the 384 submissions received this award.
Apr 24, 2014
SDM Best Paper Award
Computer Engineering PhD student Sheng Li and ECE & CCIS Assistant Professor Y. Raymond Fu were awarded the Best Paper Award at the prestigious SIAM International Conference on Data Mining for their paper on "Robust Subspace Discovery through Supervised Low-Rank Constraints". Only 1 paper out of the 384 submissions received this award.
Apr 24, 2014
Sipahi Selected Fellow
MIE Associate Professor Rifat Sipahi has been selected as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Dr. Sipahi was also the recipient of the DARPA Young Faculty Award and the Martin W. Essigmann Outstanding Teaching Award of the College of Engineering, both in 2011.
Apr 24, 2014
How to fix the Internet’s plumbing problem
Twenty-five years ago, an engineer at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva Switzerland, had an idea that would change the world. Tim Berners Lee sent a memo to his colleagues at the world’s largest particle physics laboratory proposing a way for all of its computers—and eventually all the computers in the world—to talk […]
Apr 23, 2014
Afternoon at the ‘museum’
It’s April 9, and a seventh grader from the James P. Timilty Middle School in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood is standing on a rotating platform on the third floor of Northeastern’s Snell Engineering building holding onto a spinning bicycle wheel. “When you take physics later,” says Yoshua Rozen, E’18, “you’ll learn all about the conservation of […]
Apr 22, 2014
3rd Patent in 3 Months
MIE Professor Ahmed Busnaina was awarded his third patent in three months for inventing a “Directed assembly of a conducting polymer”. His other two patents this year were for a "Multi-biomark biosensor" and a "Method of integrating a single nanowire into a nanocircuit".
Apr 18, 2014
Honoring Highest Achievements
Congratulations to the 14 COE faculty, staff, and students that were honored at the Academic Honors Convocation. The ceremony was founded by President Aoun in 2011 and each year, various members of the Northeastern community are honored and recognized for their exceptional efforts.
Apr 14, 2014
2 ECE Students Chosen for Huntington 100
Dimitri Makris and Joseph Robinson were chosen for this year’s “Huntington 100”, a prestigious honor given to the most outstanding students for their hard work and achievements.