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Jul 24, 2024
Predicting Rainfall With Artificial Intelligence
A research model that uses AI to quickly and accurately predict weather forecasts will be tested by the Tennessee Valley Authority. The model was created by Puja Das, PhD’27, interdisciplinary engineering, who is supervised by CEE Distinguished Professor Auroop Ganguly.

Jul 24, 2024
$1.5M NSF Grant To Develop New Photonic Materials
MIE/ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu and ECE Assistant Professor Sunil Mittal, in collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology and Purdue University, are leading a $1.5 million NSF DMREF grant for “Accelerating the Design and Development of Engineered Photonic Materials Based on a Data-Driven Deep Learning Approach.”

Jul 24, 2024
Robotics Student Awarded 2024 Amazon Robotics Day One Fellowship
Sophia Jonas, MS’26, robotics, is one of seven new fellows selected for the 2024 Amazon Robotics Day One Fellowship, which supports students from underrepresented backgrounds in STEM fields pursuing robotics degrees.

Jul 23, 2024
Ergun Gives Plenary Speech at ISMP 2024
MIE Distinguished Professor Ozlem Ergun gave a plenary speech at the upcoming 25th International Symposium on Math Programming that focused on her research related to the improvement of global food aid operations using mathematical programming.

Jul 22, 2024
Major Consequences of IT Outage
ECE/Khoury Professor Kevin Fu and ECE Professor and Interim Chair Josep Jornet explain the causes and implications of the Microsoft tech outage that grounded flights from major airlines and limited healthcare and financial services worldwide.

Jul 22, 2024
ECE PhD Receives Best Student Paper Finalist Award at IFAC SYSID 2024
Mohammad Alali, PhD’25, electrical engineering, received the Best Student Paper Finalist Award from the 20th IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID 2024), which was held at Northeastern, for his paper “Kernel-Based Particle Filtering for Scalable Inference in Partially Observed Boolean Dynamical Systems”.

Jul 19, 2024
Innovating Through Artificial Intelligence
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, state economic development and technology leaders, and other officials visited Northeastern to learn from faculty how AI can solve some of the most pressing issues in the state and the world. CEE Distinguished Professor Auroop Ganguly, ECE/Khoury Distinguished Professor Jennifer Dy, and ECE Professor Taskin Padir were in attendance.

Jul 18, 2024
ECE PhD Student Wins FLEX 2024 Future Student Poster Award
Yilmaz Arin Manav, PhD’28, electrical engineering, won first place at the Innovators of the Future Student Poster Award session at FLEX 2024 (SEMICON West) for his research on “Flexible Hybrid Electronics Metrology Enabled by GHz Ultrasound.” He works in ECE Assistant Professor Benyamin Davaji’s Autonomous Integrated Microsystems Lab and is a student at the Institute for NanoSystems Innovation.