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Jun 23, 2025
NSF CAREER Award To Advance Multi-Agent Network Optimization Foundations
MIE Assistant Professor Shahin Shahrampour was awarded a $515,000 NSF CAREER grant for “Foundations of Scalable, Fast, and Online Decentralized Manifold Optimization in Multi-Agent Networks.” The project takes a substantial step toward the development and adoption of decentralized manifold optimization in large-scale, multi-agent optimization. Manifold optimization is instrumental in control and engineering applications.
Jun 17, 2025
Aspiring Product Manager Club and Co-op Create a Path for Startup Success
Subash Rajaseelan, MS’23, engineering management, founded the Aspiring Product Manager Club to share the skills he gained through his eight-month industry co-op and through his interdisciplinary coursework with other students, enabling them to become successful leaders in the industry.
Jun 16, 2025
Researchers Discover Microplastics at All Ocean Depths
MES/COS/CEE Professor Aron Stubbins was featured on the NSF news story “Researchers discover microplastics at all ocean depths,” over the discovery of microplastics forming a “plastic smog” at all ocean depths, potentially disrupting marine food chains.
Jun 16, 2025
Mars Rover Team Takes Third at International Competition
A Northeastern University student team was a finalist in the University Rover Challenge of The Mars Society, where they placed in the top three at the competition. They competed in Utah with 39 teams from around the world against schools like the University of Michigan, Cornell, as well as teams from Japan, Bangladesh, Turkey, and more.
Jun 13, 2025
Summit Explores Complex Risk Science
A one-day invitation-only summit event titled “Boston-Area Complex Risk Science: Exploring new Frontiers and a New Community for Understanding Risk,” was held on June 9, 2025, at Northeastern University. Summit sponsors included CEE Distinguished Professor Auroop Ganguly, who leads Northeastern University’s Sustainability and Data Sciences (SDS) Lab, as well as the Institute for Experiential AI, AI for Climate and Sustainability (AI4CaS), and Ryan McGranaghan, research scientist and data scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Jun 12, 2025
SDS Lab Research Featured at Congressional Testimony
A written statement on research conducted by the Sustainability and Data Sciences Laboratory at Northeastern University (SDS Lab) led by Auroop Ganguly, CEE distinguished professor, was featured at the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Border Management, Federal Workforce and Regulatory Affairs, as part of a Congressional testimony presented on June 10, 2025.
Jun 10, 2025
Real-World Applications of Theoretical Knowledge Lead to Industry Success
Keshab Siddhant, MS’24, engineering management, valued the program’s combination of theoretical curriculum and real-world application through a co-op at Tesla, faculty mentorship, and student organizations.
Jun 10, 2025
PhD Spotlight: John Moody, PhD’25, Civil and Environmental Engineering
John Moody, PhD’25, civil and environmental engineering, focused his research on improving the maintenance of urban rail systems, designing strategies to increase available time for maintenance activities and frameworks to quantify and act on the trade-offs between maintenance and revenue of passenger-carrying service.