News
Jan 14, 2025
Spring 2025 AJC Merit Research Scholars
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Northeastern’s AJC Merit Research Scholarship, which will fund a co-op in the laboratory of a Northeastern University STEM faculty member.
Jan 14, 2025
Research Uncovers Wi-Fi Security Vulnerability
ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia is one of several authors of new research that has uncovered a significant security vulnerability in wireless technology found in nearly every Wi-Fi system. The findings will be presented in May at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM).
Jan 13, 2025
Jornet Delivers Keynote at IEEE CCNC 2025
ECE Professor and Associate Dean for Research Josep Jornet gave a keynote speech on “Terahertz Communications: From the Near Field to Space Networks” at the IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference.
Jan 13, 2025
Oakland Campus Makerspace Empowers Innovation for First-Year Students
A makerspace on the Oakland campus empowers students to innovate as part of the Cornerstone of Engineering class. The makerspace—made up of a woodshop, metal shop, photography lab, analog printing studio, ceramics studio and classroom equipped with digital tools—opened in fall 2024.
Jan 13, 2025
PhD Student Receives Best Paper Finalist Award at 2025 AIAA SciTech
Negar Asadi, PhD ’26, interdisciplinary engineering, under the supervision of CEE/Khoury Assistant Professor Fatemeh Ghoreishi, received the Best Paper Finalist Award at the 2025 AIAA SciTech Forum.
Jan 10, 2025
Uncovering Major Vulnerability in Wireless Networking Technology
ECE Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia was featured in the TechXplore article “How Secure Is Your Wi-Fi Network? Research Uncovers Major Vulnerability in Wireless Networking Technology.”
Jan 10, 2025
Furth Wins Transportation Research Board Exceptional Paper Award
CEE Professor Peter Furth and his former student Milad Tahmasebi, PhD’24, civil engineering, won the Exceptional Paper Award at the 104th Annual Transportation Research Board (TRB) Meeting for “Reducing Speeding by Removing Speeding Opportunities: Field Test of Safe Waves Traffic Signal Timing.”
Jan 10, 2025
Reducing Traffic Congestion: Lessons From New York and Beyond
CEE Professor Peter Furth was featured in the CNN interview “Reducing Traffic Congestion: Lessons From New York and Beyond.”