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Aug 21, 2018
$1M NSF Grant to Advance the Study of Single-Molecule Research
BioE Professor Jeffrey Ruberti (co-PI) along with bioengineering affiliated and College of Science faculty, including Professor Mark Williams (PI), and Associate Professors Penny Beuning (co-PI), Meni Wanunu (co-PI), and Ke Zhang (co-PI) were awarded a $1M NSF grant for the “Acquisition of a Lumick’s SuperC-TRAP correlative optical tweezers and fluorescence microscope (CTFM) system.”
Aug 21, 2018
$1M NSF Grant to Understand Subjective Experiences
CCIS Assistant Professor Jan-Willem van de Meent (PI) and co-PIs ECE Professor Jennifer Dy, ECE Assistant Professor Sarah Ostadabbas, and COS Assistant Professor Ajay Satpute were awarded a $1M NSF grant “Leveraging Deep Probabilistic Models to Understand the Neural Bases of Subjective Experience”.
Aug 20, 2018
ECE Postdoc Selected as DARPA Riser for D60 Symposium
Postdoctoral Research Associate Zhenyun Qian was selected to be a DARPA Riser and participate in the D60, DARPA’s 60th anniversary symposium from September 5 to 7 in Maryland. According to […]
Aug 15, 2018
Strong Female Role Models Contributed to Their Success
Jennifer Morales, PhD Bioengineering, comes from a place where feminist role models are rare and detainees are prevalent. She’s from Mission, Texas, a city in Hidalgo County—one of the immigration […]
Aug 13, 2018
Levendis Awarded $240K NSF Grant
MIE Professor Yiannis Levendis was awarded a $240K NSF grant to determine the “Combustion characteristics of pulverized torrefied biomass for use in co-firing boilers”.
Aug 09, 2018
Creating a New Autonomous System
ChE Associate Professor Richard West and Michael Burke from Columbia University were awarded a $450K NSF collaborative grant for creating “Autonomous Systems for Experimental and Computational Data Generation and Data-Driven Modeling of Combustion Kinetics”.
Aug 07, 2018
Bringing Solar Power to Tanzania While Dealing with a Whole New Culture
Erin acknowledges that she initially felt anxious about her first global co-op, working for a company that brings solar power to Tanzania, but ultimately she flourished at Sikubora Limited.
Aug 07, 2018
2018 MMDF Workshop Report is Out
The very productive 2018 Multimodal Data Fusion (MMDF) workshop hosted in March 2018 at Northeastern resulted in insightful discussion and productive suggestions for moving the field of multimodal data fusion forward in the coming years.