Cristian Cassella
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Contact
- c.cassella@northeastern.edu
- 360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Office
- 422 ISEC
- 617.373.7509
Research Focus
Acoustic resonators, nonreciprocal components, zero-power sensors for IoT, nonlinear dynamics, ultrasonic transducers
Education
- PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, 2015
Honors & Awards
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship
Research Overview
Acoustic resonators, nonreciprocal components, zero-power sensors for IoT, nonlinear dynamics, ultrasonic transducers
Selected Research Projects
- Massive Scale Computing and Optimization through On-chip ParameTric Ising MAchines (OPTIMA)
- Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
- Giant Tunability through Piezoelectric Resonant Acoustic Metamaterials for Radio Frequency Adaptive Integrated Electronics
- Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation CAREER Award
- Ferroelectric Integrated and Reconfigurable ScAlN Technologies
- Co-Principal Investigator, DARPA
- Fully Integrated Parametric Filters for Extensive Phase- Noise Reduction in Low-Power RF Front-Ends and Resonant Sensing Platforms
- Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- H.M.E. Hussein, M. Rinaldi, M. Onabajo, C. Cassella, A chip-less and battery-less subharmonic tag for wireless sensing with parametrically enhanced sensitivity and dynamic range. Sci Rep 11, 3782 (2021).
- X. Zhao, L. Colombo, Cristian Cassella, Aluminum Nitride Two-Dimensional-Resonant-Rods, Applied Physics Letters, 116(14), 2020, 143504
- H.M. Hussein, M.A. Ibrahim, G. Michetti, M. Rinaldi, M. Onabajo, C. Cassella, Systematic Synthesis and Design of Ultra-Low Threshold 2:1 Parametric Frequency Dividers, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques, 2020
- C. Cassella, J. Segovia-Fernandez, High K2⁄t Exceeding 6.4% Through Metal Frames in Aluminum Nitride 2-D Mode Resonators, IEEE transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control 66(5), 2019, 958-964
- J.M. Puder, J.S. Pulskamp, R.R. Rudy, C. Cassella, M. Rinaldi, G. Chen, S. Bhave, R.G. Polcawich Rapid Harmonic Analysis of Piezoelectric MEMS Resonators, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonic Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 6(65), 2018, 979-990
- G. Chen, C. Cassella, T. Wu, M. Rinaldi, Single-Chip Multi-Frequency Wideband Filters Based on Aluminum Nitride Cross-Sectional Lamé Mode Resonators with Thick and Apodized Electrodes, IEEE Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, 2018, 775-778
Jul 06, 2021
Creating a Mass-Producible Ising Machine for Quantum-like Computing and Optimization at Room Temperature
ECE Assistant Professor Cristian Cassella, in collaboration with Prof. Philip Feng from the University of Florida, has been awarded a $500K NSF grant on “Massive Scale Computing and Optimization through On-chip ParameTric Ising MAchines (OPTIMA)”.
Feb 17, 2021
Subharmonic Tag for Wireless Sensing
ECE PhD student Hussein Hussein, Professor Matteo Rinaldi, Associate Professor Marvin Onabajo, and Assistant Professor Cristian Cassella had their research on “A chip-less and battery-less subharmonic tag for wireless sensing with parametrically enhanced sensitivity and dynamic range” published in Scientific Reports from the Nature group.
Jan 27, 2021
Cassella Receives NSF CAREER Award
Assistant Professor Cristian Cassella, electrical and computer engineering, received a $409K NSF CAREER award for “Giant Tunability through Piezoelectric Resonant Acoustic Metamaterials for Radio Frequency Adaptive Integrated Electronics”.
Oct 01, 2020
Using Two-Dimensional Mode Resonators for High Frequency Filtering
ECE Assistant Professor Cristian Cassella as awarded a patent for “Two-dimensional mode resonators”.
Jun 03, 2020
Rinaldi and Cassella Awarded Patent for “Microelectromechanical Resonant Circulators”
ECE Associate Professor Matteo Rinaldi and Assistant Professor Cristian Cassella were awarded a patent for “Microelectromechanical resonant circulator”.
Mar 30, 2020
Applied Physics Letters Featured Article
ECE Assistant Professor Cristian Cassella recently had his article, Aluminum Nitride Two-Dimensional-Resonant-Rods accepted in Applied Physics Letters Journal.
Aug 23, 2019
Cassella Receives NSF Award to Enable Longer Battery Lifetime and Next-Generation Micro- and Nano-Sensors
ECE Assistant Professor Cristian Cassella (PI), Associate Professor Marvin Onabajo, and Associate Professor Matteo Rinaldi received a $437K NSF award from the CCSS-Comms Circuits & Sens Sys program for “Fully Integrated Parametric Filters for Extensive Phase-Noise Reduction in Low-Power RF Front-Ends and Resonant Sensing Platforms.” The research program aims to exploit, for the first time, […]
Aug 30, 2018
New Faculty Spotlight: Cristian Cassella
Cristian Cassella joins the Electrical & Computer Engineering department in August 2018 as an Assistant Professor.
Oct 06, 2017
Rinaldi & McGruer Featured on Cover of Nature Nanotechnology
ECE Associate Professor Matteo Rinaldi and Professor Nicol McGruer’s research on “Zero-power infrared digitizers based on plasmonically enhanced micromechanical photoswitches” was featured on the cover of Nature Nanotechnology.