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Sep 19, 2024
Zheng Selected for Boston Business Journal 40 Under 40
Yi Zheng, MIE associate professor and founder of Planck Energies, has been named a 2024 “40 Under 40” honoree by the Boston Business Journal. Zheng was selected from over 300 nominees in the greater Boston area for his excellence in academics, business leadership, and community service.
Sep 19, 2024
Revolutionizing Edge Computing With Superconducting Deep Neural Networks
ECE Assistant Professors Marco Colangelo and Francesco Restuccia were awarded a two-year $500,000 DARPA grant for “Superconducting Deep Neural Networks at the Edge.” They aim to reduce end-to-end processing latency by at least three orders of magnitude compared to existing edge computing paradigms without impacting AI performance.
Sep 18, 2024
Understanding the Causes and Implications of Hezbollah Pager Explosions
ECE Professor and Interim Chair Josep Jornet explains what led thousands of explosive-filled pagers planted by the militant group Hezbollah to detonate in parts of Lebanon and Syria, citing a tampered fail-safe mechanism within the pagers as the likely cause.
Sep 17, 2024
Patent for Improved Underwater Acoustic Networking
ECE William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia and Research Assistant Professor Emrecan Demirors were awarded a patent for designing a “Method and apparatus for wireless communications.”
Sep 17, 2024
Patent for Advanced X-Ray Technology for Enhanced Imaging
MIE Professor Yung Joon Jung was awarded a patent for creating an “X-ray detector with interdigitated network.”
Sep 17, 2024
Patent for 3D Auxetic Composite Structures
MIE Associate Professor Yaning Li was awarded a patent for “Three-dimensional auxetic composite structures.”
Sep 17, 2024
Patent for Internally Cooled Nozzle for Enhanced Additive Manufacturing
MIE Assistant Professor Ozan Özdemir was awarded a patent for designing an “Internally cooled aerodynamically centralizing nozzle (ICCN) .”
Sep 17, 2024
Student Club Is Innovating To Lower the Cost of Satellites
Matthew O’Rourke, E’25, mechanical engineering, and Rachel Rakushkin, E’26, electrical engineering, were awarded Mosaic Prototype awards from Northeastern’s Center for Entrepreneurship Education for their work developing technologies to reduce the cost of satellite components as part of the Project Horizons student club.