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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.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Ozlem Ergun

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.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

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”.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

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.

Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering

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.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jul 18, 2024

July Is Disability Awareness Month

Disability Awareness Month in July commemorates the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that took place on July 26, 1990. Engineers have the ability to make the world more accessible and make the struggles that abled/disabled individuals experience obsolete by engineering more inclusively through Universal Design.

Jul 17, 2024

Phase II of NOWRDC Offshore Wind Hurricane Risk Assessment Project

CEE Professor Andrew Myers, University Distinguished and CDM Smith Professor and Department Chair Jerome Hajjar, and Research Associate Professor Nathan Post are leading a team of five universities for Phase II of the NOWRDC administered project, “Long-Term Availability and Bankability of Offshore Wind Through Hurricane Risk Assessment and Mitigation.”

Civil & Environmental Engineering