Marco Colangelo

Assistant Professor,  Electrical and Computer Engineering

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  • EXP 630A
  • (617) 373 6458

Research Focus

Applied superconductivity, single-photon detectors, cryogenic devices, and nanofabrication technology

Education

PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023

MSc, Electronics Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 2018

MSc, Nanotechnologies for ICTs, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, 2017

BSc, Physics Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, 2015

Honors & Awards

IEEE CSC Applied Superconductivity Graduate Fellowship, 2021

MIT Claude E. Shannon Award, 2021

MIT Jacobs Presidential Fellowship 2018

 

Research Overview

Applied superconductivity, single-photon detectors, cryogenic devices, and nanofabrication technology

Nano Structures Laboratory

At the Nanodevice Research Laboratory, we are working on technologies leveraging applied superconductivity, photonics and quantum physics for applications in sensing and computing. Our work focuses on the design, nanofabrication and measurement of hybrid nanodevices and systems.

Nano Structures Laboratory

Selected Research Projects

Department Research Areas

Selected Publications

  • Piatti,E., Colangelo, M., Bartoli, M., et al.. (2022) Reversible tuning of superconductivity in ion-gated niobium nitride ultrathin films by self-encapsulation with a high-? dielectric layer – Physical Review Applied
  • Colangelo, M., Walter, A.B., Korzh, B., Schmidt, E., et al.. (2022) Practical superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors for operation at wavelengths up to 7.4 μm – ACS Nano Letters
  • Lin, C.W., Huang, S., Colangelo, M., Chen, C., Wong, F.N., Berggren, K.K., Belcher, A.M., (2022) Surface plasmon enhanced up-conversion fluorescence in short-wave infrared for in vivo imaging of ovarian cancer – ACS Nano
  • Zhu, D., Colangelo, M., Korzh, B., Shaw, M.D., Berggren, K.K. (2021). Impedance Matched Superconducting Nanowire Photodetector for Single-and Multi-Photon Detectio US Patent Application – 16808904
  • Verma, V. B., Korzh, B., Walter, A. B., Lita, A. E., Briggs, R. M., Colangelo, M., Zhai, Y., et al. Single-photon detection in the midinfrared up to 10 micron wavelength using tungsten silicide superconducting nanowire detectors. In APL Photonics 6.5 (2021): 056101.

Students

Feb 07, 2025

Spring 2025 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research

Several COE, COS, and Khoury students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of the Spring 2025 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.

Undergraduate

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.

Faculty

Nov 25, 2024

Quantum Advancements in Light-Matter Interaction

ECE Assistant Professor Marco Colangelo and Associate Professor Cristian Cassella received a $178,896 DARPA grant for their groundbreaking research project, “SuperEMech: Superconducting Electro-Mechanical Platform for Light-Matter Interactions.”

Faculty

Nov 07, 2024

Advancing Sensing Technology With Microdevices

ECE Assistant Professors Marco Colangelo, Benyamin Davaji, and Associate Professor Cristian Cassella had their research on “Localized Topological States Beyond Fano Resonances via Counter-propagating Wave Mode Conversion in Piezoelectric Microelectromechanical Devices” published in Nature Communications.

Faculty

Sep 19, 2024

Revolutionizing Edge Computing With Superconducting Deep Neural Networks

ECE Assistant Professors Marco Colangelo and Francesco Restuccia were awarded a two-year $500,000 DARPA grant for “Superconducting Deep Neural Networks at the Edge.” They aim to reduce end-to-end processing latency by at least three orders of magnitude compared to existing edge computing paradigms without impacting AI performance.

Faculty

Aug 02, 2024

Revolutionizing Quantum Technology With Metamaterial-based Detectors

ECE Assistant Professor Marco Colangelo, Professor Matteo Rinaldi, and Assistant Professor Benyamin Davaji were awarded a $330,000 NSF grant for “Metamaterial-Enabled Superconducting Nanowire Detectors for High Temperature Operation.”

Marco Colangelo

Faculty

Aug 18, 2023

New Faculty Spotlight: Marco Colangelo

Marco Colangelo joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in August 2023 as an Assistant Professor.

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