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Jul 03, 2023
Groundbreaking, Animal-Inspired Robot Rolls, Crawls and Flies into the Future of Robotics
The multi-modal mobility morphobot (M4), designed by a team of researchers led by ECE Assistant Professor Alireza Ramezani, is a shape-shifting robot with eight modes of mobility inspired by animals, capable of seamlessly transitioning between crawling, flying, rotating, and using thrusters, with potential applications in space exploration, package delivery, and search and rescue operations.
Jul 03, 2023
How Clean is the Air in Your Neighborhood? This New Northeastern Project Aims to Find Out
CEE Professor Yang Zhang, who leads the interdisciplinary impact engine team iSUPER, is installing over 100 stationary pollution sensors in Brookline and Chelsea and using a mobile lab to measure air quality block-by-block in Greater Boston municipalities. She aims to identify hyperlocal pollutant hotspots and support strategies to reduce air pollution.
Jul 01, 2023
CEE Co-ops Wins Spring 2023 Scholarships from DN Tanks
Civil engineering students Catherine Yates and Meilin Garfinkel won Spring 2023 scholarships from their co-op employer DN Tanks, a company specializing in engineering concrete tanks for a wide variety of water, wastewater, fuel, and other infrastructure and industrial purposes.
Jun 30, 2023
Best Paper Award at ACM HPDC 2023
Computer engineering student Baolin Li, PhD’24, and ECE Associate Professor Devesh Tiwari received the Karsten Schwan Best Paper Award at the 32nd ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC) for their paper on “Kairos: Building Cost-Efficient Machine Learning Inference Systems with Heterogeneous Cloud Resources.”
Jun 27, 2023
Wanunu Receives $2M NIH/NHGRI Grant to Develop a Single-Molecule Protein Sequencer Based on Engineered High-Resolution Nanopores
BioE affiliated faculty member Meni Wanunu received a $2 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) for “Asymmetric Single-Chain MspA Nanopores for Electroosmotic Stretching and Sequencing Proteins.” Protein identification and single-molecule protein sequencing could revolutionize the understanding of health by providing a picture of the molecular state of the cell at the level of its most functional molecules.
Jun 26, 2023
Explainable Anomaly Detection
ECE/Khoury Professor Yun Raymond Fu received a $540,000 Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) grant to address video anomaly detection through deep learning and perturbation techniques.
Jun 15, 2023
Indonesia is Building a New Capital. Will It be a Model Amid Climate Change?
CEE Professor Auroop Ganguly and Chair Jerome Hajjar emphasize the importance of water management, sustainability, and potential challenges regarding the construction of Indonesia’s new capital city, Nusantara.
Jun 12, 2023
Understanding Cell-Fate Transitions for Tumor Development
University Distinguished Professor Herbert Levine, physics and bioengineering is leading a $1.2 million NSF grant for determining the “Regulation of Cellular Stemness during the Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT).” State-of-the-art single cell measurement technology will be used together with advanced mathematical modeling frameworks to understand how cells choose specific fates and to quantitatively unravel the genetic and epigenetic dynamics that leads these cells along their particular trajectories.