News
Nov 10, 2022
How Northeastern’s Roux Institute Is Using Real-time Data to Bring Industry 4.0 to Maine
Jack Lesko, professor of mechanical and industrial engineering and director of engineering research at the Roux Institute, is a proponent of Industry 4.0—also known as the fourth Industrial Revolution—to build manufacturing resilience, enabling companies to respond to regional and global needs based on real-time data.
Nov 10, 2022
Northeastern Researcher Wins Meta Award to Quarantine and Vaccinate Silent Data Corruptions
Devesh Tiwari, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, recently received a 2022 Meta Research Award among five U.S. and international scientists for his proposal to develop a quarantine and vaccination framework to mitigate silent data corruptions in large-scale systems.
Nov 09, 2022
New Faculty Spotlight: Omar Badreldin
Omar Badreldin joined the MGEN department in August 2022 as an Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Director of the Information Systems Program in Toronto.
Nov 09, 2022
Liu Elected 2023 Fellow Member of Optica
MIE/ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu was elected as a 2023 Fellow Member of Optica (formerly OSA). He is being honored specifically for significant contributions to the fundamental and application of nanophotonics, particularly plasmonics and photonic metamaterials. Fellow membership in Optica is limited to no more than ten percent of the membership and is reserved for members who have served with distinction in the advancement of optics and photonics.
Nov 08, 2022
Northeastern Robotics Team Wins $1M for Third-place Finish in Global Competition
Team Northeastern won $1 million in third place among 17 finalists from around the globe in the ANA Avatar XPrize robotics competition.
Nov 07, 2022
Outstanding Paper Award at ACM Conference on Equity and Access
MIE PhD Candidate Yaren Bilge Kaya and Assistant Professor Kayse Lee Maass received an Outstanding Paper Award at the 2022 ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization.
Nov 04, 2022
Wireless Charging of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
ECE Research Assistant Professor Yousof Naderi and Professor Kaushik Chowdhury were awarded a patent for “Wireless charging of unmanned aerial vehicles.”
Nov 04, 2022
Insect Population Decline to Effect Pollination
Interdisciplinary engineering student Kate Duffy, PhD’21, has been studying the effect of climate change on insect populations and their important role in our ecosystem.