Spotlight Stories
Jun 24, 2025
Software Engineering Systems Program Facilitates Co-op Success
Sai Ram Sudheendra Sabnavisu, MS’25, software engineering systems, was driven by his desire for global education, broader exposure to the field, and the opportunity to enhance his technical skills to pursue studies at Northeastern.
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 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.
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.
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.
Jun 10, 2025
PhD Spotlight: Ruyi Ding, PhD’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.
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.”