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Sep 04, 2018
Civil Engineering Student Receives Amtrak Engineering Scholarship
Ariella Liebman, BSCE 2020, was one of only five students to win a 2018 Amtrak Academic Scholarship.

Aug 29, 2018
INFORMS Receives 2018 Student Chapter Award
For the second year in a row, and the third since the club’s formation, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) at Northeastern was one of the schools awarded the Student Chapter Cum Laude Award.

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 […]
Jul 18, 2018
Shuangjun Liu from ACLab Awarded $30K AWS Amazon Cloud Credits
Shuangjun Liu, ECE PhD student working at the Augmented Cognition Lab (ACLab) directed by Assistant Professor Sarah Ostadabbas, received $30K Amazon Web Service (AWS) credit for the implementation of his PhD research on “A Semi-Supervised Data Augmentation Approach using 3D Graphical Engines”.

Jul 10, 2018
Professor Mi and PhD Students Win Best Paper at IEEE CLOUD 2018
ECE Associate Professor Ningfang Mi and two of her PhD students, Janki Bhimani and Zhengyu Yang, were awarded the 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD 2018) Best Paper, “FIOS: Feature Based I/O Stream Identification for Improving Endurance of Multi-Stream SSDs.”

Jul 03, 2018
SDS Lab PhD student Thomas Vandal accepts position as NASA scientist
Sustainability and Data Science Laboratory (SDS Lab) PhD student Thomas J. (“TJ”) Vandal has accepted a position as a NASA scientist at their Ames Research Center in the San Francisco Bay Area. He will […]

Jul 02, 2018
Human Support Robot
ECE students Anas Abou Allaban, BS’20, Tarik Kelestemur, MS’18, and Naoki Yokoyama, BS/MS’18, under the direction of Associate Professor Taskin Padir, recently competed at the RoboCup@Home competition and placed 4th overall (the best of any US team) which landed them a spot to participate in the World Robot Summit in Tokyo.

Jun 26, 2018
Critical Infrastructure Interactions
Interdisciplinary Engineering PhD student Lizzy Warner was part of a two-person team that won the top prize at the DHS Center of Excellence Summit for their interactive map that illustrates how critical infrastructure in Boston connects with each other.