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Nov 25, 2025
Addressing Backdoor Attacks on Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN)
Research developed by the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things on “How to Poison an xApp: Dissecting Backdoor Attacks to Deep Reinforcement Learning in Open Radio Access Networks” was published in Computer Networks.
Nov 25, 2025
New Analog Chip Design Improves Performance for Modern Radar Systems
Electrical engineering graduate student Aswin Undavalli, PhD’29, and ECE Assistant Professor Aravind Nagulu published their research on “Fully Analog, Multi-Lag, RF Correlators for Code-Domain Radars Using Margin Propagation” in the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.
Nov 25, 2025
Northeastern Duo Wins First Place at Disney Industrial Engineering Case Competition
Industrial engineering students Aaron Wang, E’27, and Kristina Carandang, E’27, won first place at The Walt Disney Company’s third annual Disney Industrial Engineering Case Competition. Their achievement marks the first time a Northeastern team has taken the top spot in this national event.
Nov 25, 2025
PNAS Perspective Defines Mechanomedicine as Target for Disease Treatment
Ning Wang, bioengineering professor and director of the Institute for Mechanobiology, co-authored a perspective article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) on “Mechanomedicine: Present state and future promise,” in which they define and map out the future of this critical emerging field.
Nov 25, 2025
ECE Research on Energy-Efficient Serverless Computing Recognized at SC25
ECE Associate Professor Devesh Tiwari’s research group received the Best Paper Finalist honor at The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC25), the premier international conference for High Performance Computing (HPC). The paper, “GreenMix: Energy-Efficient Serverless Computing via Randomized Sketching on Asymmetric Multi-Cores,” presents a novel technique to significantly improve energy efficiency in modern serverless computing systems.
Nov 25, 2025
An Auto Holy Grail: Motors That Don’t Rely on Chinese Rare Earths
Distinguished University and Cabot Professor Laura Lewis, ChE/MIE, was featured in the New York Times article “An Auto Holy Grail: Motors That Don’t Rely on Chinese Rare Earths.”
Nov 20, 2025
New Tool to Detect AI-Generated Text
Sohni Rais, MS’25, information systems, has been researching and developing a tool to analyze writing and detect AI-generated text.
Nov 19, 2025
Yonina Eldar Appointed Joseph E. Aoun Professor
ECE Professor and Joseph E. Aoun Chair Yonina Eldar has dedicated her work to developing meaningful and impactful solutions to improve the healthcare and biomedical technology industry. She now joins Northeastern’s College of Engineering as one of the Joseph E. Aoun Chairs to continue working on impactful projects.