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Aug 06, 2026

Northeastern helps lead $15M Army-funded center for next-generation sensing and communications

Josep M. Jornet and Tommaso Melodia, co-director and director of the Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems (INSI) at Northeastern University and faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, are co-principal investigators on a new $15 million research center funded by the Army Research Office to advance secure sensing, imaging and wireless communications.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Xufeng Zhang

Aug 05, 2026

Patent for Innovative System to Boost Speed and Efficiency in Quantum Computing

ECE Assistant Professor Xufeng Zhang was awarded a patent for “Slow-wave hybrid magnonics based on interacting magnons and spoof surface plasmon polaritons.”

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Aug 05, 2026

Patent for AI Driven Digital Twin System to Improve Factory Efficiency

MIE Teaching Professor Mohammad Dehghani was awarded a patent for “Digital twin modeling and optimization of production processes.”

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Aug 04, 2026

Brain Inspired Computer Chips Could Power Faster and More Efficient Supercomputers

ECE Professor Hossein Mosallaei received the U.S. Department of Energy’s AI Genesis Award to advance research on brain-inspired computer chips that could make future AI supercomputers significantly faster and much more energy-efficient.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Aug 04, 2026

Industrial Engineering Student Builds AI Agent to Repair Chemical Plant Blueprints

Sierre Ternoey, E, industrial engineering, developed an agentic AI tool during a research co-op in Germany that reads error reports and automatically fixes chemical plant process flow sheets.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Aug 04, 2026

New Agentic AI Framework Promises Faster Development of Next Generation Wireless Networks

Researchers at Northeastern University’s Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems developed GENESIS, an agentic AI framework led by College of Engineering Professor Tommaso Melodia that autonomously writes, tests, and debugs code to dramatically accelerate the development of next-generation telecommunications systems like 6G.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Aug 04, 2026

Student Startup Creates Hands On STEM Toy to Inspire Young Engineers

Mechanical engineering students Nicolas Bejar and Mason Kim co-founded NextTile, a patent-pending student startup supported by the IDEA venture accelerator that creates modular, magnetic building block toys to provide hands-on STEM education for elementary students.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Aug 04, 2026

The Power of Mentorship: How Northeastern’s Young Scholars Program Elevates Faculty and Graduate Roles

At Northeastern University’s Michael B. Silevitch and Claire J. Duggan Center for STEM Education, a six-week summer program is quietly transforming the way faculty and graduate students think about mentorship—and […]

Chemical Engineering, Center for STEM