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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.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Jun 10, 2025

PhD Spotlight: Turner Jennings, PhD’25, Mechanical Engineering

Turner Jennings, PhD’25, mechanical engineering, authored a dissertation on improving helmet impact response that focused on using granular materials instead of polymeric foams to absorb impact energy. Following graduation, Jennings joined Northeastern as a postdoctoral research associate.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jun 10, 2025

PhD Spotlight: Lluvia “Weijia” Jing, PhD’25, Industrial Engineering

Lluvia “Weijia” Jing, PhD’25, industrial engineering, focused on optimizing global humanitarian supply chains. As part of a multi-year collaboration with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Jing led the development of advanced models to support decision-making for both pre- and post-disaster planning strategies in regions affected by food insecurity.

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jun 10, 2025

PhD Spotlight: Ruyi Ding, Ph’25, Computer Engineering

Ruyi Ding, PhD’25, computer engineering, focuses his research on the intersection of artificial intelligence security and hardware security, following a software–hardware co design paradigm. In fall 2025, Ding will join the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Louisiana State University as an assistant professor.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jun 10, 2025

PhD Spotlight: Aria Masoomi, PhD’24, Computer Engineering, and Mathematics

Aria Masoomi, PhD’24, computer engineering, and PhD’24, mathematics, focused his dissertation research for computer engineering on “Making Deep Neural Networks Transparent.” His mathematics thesis was “Poisson Geometry of Flag Varieties and Representation Theory of Their Quantum Deformation.”

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jun 10, 2025

PhD Spotlight: Duschia Bodet, PhD’25, Electrical Engineering

Duschia Bodet, PhD’25, electrical engineering, conducts research at the forefront of wireless communications with a focus on modulation techniques and beam control for sub-terahertz, multiple antenna systems. In addition to being published, she won Best Paper Award at GLOBECOM and received the Paul Baran Young Scholar Award from the Marconi Society.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jun 10, 2025

PhD Spotlight: Justin Hayes, PhD’25, Chemical Engineering

Justin Hayes, PhD’25, chemical engineering, focuses on understanding how gut microbial metabolism impacts human health. He is an inventor on the pending patent and founder and CEO of Concordance Therapeutics Inc. He was awarded the Northeastern University chapter of the National Academy of Inventors Student Innovation Impact Award.

Chemical Engineering