News
Sep 08, 2022
Targeting the Shared Mid-Band Spectrum for 5G
ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury and Associate Research Scientist Debashri Roy, in collaboration with the University of Oklahoma, were awarded a $750K NSF grant for “MEDUSA: Mid-band Environmental Sensing Capability for Detecting Incumbents during Spectrum Sharing.” The objective of the project is to detect the presence of static/mobile radar and anomalous transmissions within concurrent and comparatively higher power 5G and 4G-LTE signals through machine learning and receiver antenna design.
Sep 08, 2022
Outstanding Paper Award at IEEE HPEC Conference
Computer engineering student Baolin Li, PhD’24, and ECE Associate Professor Devesh Tiwari received an outstanding paper award (top ~5%) from the IEEE HPEC conference for their paper “Benchmarking Resource Usage for Efficient Distributed Deep Learning.” Li was also nominated as one of four students selected by Northeastern University for the Google PhD Fellowship.
Aug 30, 2022
Expanding the Bridge to Doctorate STARS Program
Vice Provost of the PhD Network & CEE Professor Sara Wadia-Fascetti, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs & MIE Professor Jacqueline Isaacs, CEE Affiliated Faculty Randall Hughes, and Associate Dean, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Richard Harris were awarded a $1M NSF grant to expand the Northeastern LSAMP BD STARS Fellowship Pathway.
Aug 29, 2022
Xie Awarded $2 Million NIIMBL Stem Cell Research Grant
MIE Assistant Professor Wei Xie received a $2M award from the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals, for the project “Advanced Bioprocessing Sensor and Analytical Technologies for Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Culture Online Monitoring and Automation.”
Aug 29, 2022
Bajpayee Awarded R21 Grant to Develop Therapies for Treating Lower Back Pain
BioE Associate Professor Ambika Bajpayee, in collaboration with Nadeen Chahine from Columbia University Health Sciences, was awarded a $222K R21 grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases for “Sustained Delivery of RhoA activator for Treatment of Intervertebral Disc Degeneration.”
Aug 25, 2022
Liu Selected as SPIE Senior Member
MIE/ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu was selected as a senior member of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE).
Aug 25, 2022
Addressing Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Issues
MIE Associate Professor Jacqueline Griffin, ECE Professor David Kaeli, MIE Professor Ozlem Ergun, and affiliate faculty members Stacy Marsella and Casper Harteveld were awarded a $750k NSF grant for “Designing an Improved Information Infrastructure for Better Decision Making in Pharmaceutical Supply Chains.”
Aug 25, 2022
Ensuring Safe Supply to Drinking Water
CEE Associate Professor Ryan Qi Wang, Assistant Professor Kelsey Pieper, and CSSH Professor Daniel Aldrich, in collaboration with the University of Virginia, are leading a $750k NSF grant for “Dynamical Coupling of Physical and Social Infrastructures: Evaluating the Impacts of Social Capital on Access to Safe Well Water.”