Deniz Erdogmus
COE Distinguished Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering
Sr. Director of Research, Innovation, and Partnerships,
Innovation Campus at Burlington, MA (ICBM)
Contact
- D.Erdogmus@northeastern.edu
- 147 South Bedford Street
Burlington, Massachusetts 01803
Social Media
Office
- ICBM - Building 5
- 617.373.3021
Lab
- ISEC & EXP
Research Focus
Signal Processing & Machine Learning; Human-Centric Foundational & Physical AI; AI for Health, Quality-of-Life, and Clinical Innovation; AI for Scientific Discovery & Engineered Systems
About
Deniz Erdogmus received BS (1997) in EE and Mathematics, and MS (1999) in EE from the METU in Turkey; PhD (2002) in ECE from the University of Florida. He is a COE Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University. His research focuses on artificial intelligence, machine learning, signal and image analysis with applications involving Cyber-Physical AI/Autonomy, Behavioral & Biomedical AI, Human-centric AI. He has served as an Associate Editor for various journals, and as a member of IEEE Technical Committees for MLSP (Elected 2003-2009; Elected 2017-2022) and BISP (Associate 2009-2011, Elected 2011-2016).
Education
- PhD, University of Florida, 2002. Joined Northeastern in 2008.
Honors & Awards
- 2024 Distinguished Faculty Award
- 2021 ECE Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching
- 2021 COE Faculty Research Team Award
- 2019 COE Excellence in Mentoring Award
- 2014 COE Faculty Fellow
- 2014 COE Søren Buus Outstanding Research Award
- 2012 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
- 2004 International Neural Network Society Young Investigator Award
- 2003 IEEE SPS Young Author Best Paper Award
- 2001 Tau Beta Pi & Eta Kappa Nu
Research Overview
Signal Processing & Machine Learning; Human-Centric Foundational & Physical AI; AI for Health, Quality-of-Life, and Clinical Innovation; AI for Scientific Discovery & Engineered Systems
Deniz Erdogmus conducts research in Signal Processing & Machine Learning; Human-Centric Foundational & Physical AI; AI for Health, Quality-of-Life, and Clinical Innovation; AI for Scientific Discovery & Engineered Systems.
Cognitive Systems Laboratory (CSL)
CSL is a member of the Institute for Experiential AI (IEAI); the Institute for Experiential Robotics (IER); the Center for Signal Processing, Imaging, Reasoning, and Learning (SPIRAL); the self-organized Psychologists, Engineers, Neuroscientists (PEN) Cluster at Northeastern; the inter-institutional Consortium for Accessible Multimodal Brain-Body Interfaces (CAMBI); the inter-institutional Imaging and Informatics in Retinopathy of Prematurity (i-ROP) Consortium; the inter-institutional Biomechanistic Learning Augmentation with Deep Differential Equation Representations (BLADDER) Consortium.
Selected Research Projects
- IVD Device for Patient Immune Profiling and Personalized Treatment Selection. ARPA-H / Feromics
- Predicting aggression onset in children with autism using wearable sensor data. NIH
- Predictive and reactive agile navigation in complex environments (PRANCE). ARL
- Acquisition of a controllable pulse transcranial magnetic stimulator with robotic positioning and integrated EEG/EMG for neuroscience research and education. NSF
- Cognitive distributed sensing in congested radio frequency environments. ARL
- The brain basis of emotion: a category construction problem. NSF
- Coordination of dyadic object handover for human-robot interaction. NSF
- Optimizing BCI-FIT: brain computer interface – functional implementation toolkit. NIH
- Multimodal Signal Analysis and Data Fusion for Post- traumatic Epilepsy Prediction. NIH
- Clinical and genetic analysis of retinopathy of prematurity. NIH
- Biomechanistic learning augmentation with deep differential equation representations (BLADDER). NIH
- Signal Processing in Neural Networks for Wireless IoT. DARPA
- Automation of characterization and evaluation in personal protective equipment manufacturing plants. ARM
- Probabilistic Learning with Less Labeling. DARPA
- Understanding motor cortical organization through engineering innovation in TMS-based brain mapping. NSF
- EEG-guided electrical stimulation for immersive virtual reality. NSF
Research Centers and Institutes
Selected Publications
Jan 23, 2026
Spring 2026 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several COE, Bouvé, COS, DMSB, and Khoury students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of the Spring 2026 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships. This group of students from across the university will explore a wide variety of topics and questions from developing brain-computer interfaces, to analyzing air quiality data to inform future legislation, Socioeconomic Factors impact on twin infants, and more.
Oct 29, 2025
Patent for the Next Generation of Smart Robotic Grippers
ECE Professor Taskin Padir, Associate Professor Kris Dorsey, and Distinguished Professor Deniz Erdogmus were awarded a patent for “Systems and methods for robotic grippers with fiber optic spectroscopy.”
Jan 31, 2025
2024 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations
The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2% of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above. The list below includes those who published a paper in 2024 or later.
Dec 23, 2024
Offering Insights into Increased Drone Presence
ECE Distinguished Professor Deniz Erdogmus suggests that the increase in mysterious drone sightings across the country could be the result of private companies operating more drones to test the limits of the technology.
Feb 01, 2024
Faculty and Staff Awards 2024
The College of Engineering recognized faculty and staff at the annual faculty and staff awards event and thanked everyone for their hard work and dedication in support of our students, college, and university during the 2023-2024 academic year. View award recipients and photo gallery.
Dec 07, 2023
2023 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations
The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2% of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above.
May 24, 2023
Kostas Research Institute Receives $13M U.S. Army Contract for Wireless Research
The Kostas Research Institute (KRI) at Northeastern University has been awarded $13 million by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory for foundational research into Cognitive Distributed Sensing in Congested Radio Frequency Environments. KRI and five partner institutions will conduct innovative research to enable technologies in distributed machine learning, signal processing algorithms, and computational, sensing, and communication hardware infrastructure for distributed sensing and communication.
Feb 02, 2023
2023 Acorn Innovation Awards
ECE Assistant Professor Sarah Ostadabbas, Professor Deniz Erdogmus, and MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng received MassVentures Acorn Innovation Awards to assist them in testing the viability of their technologies and potentially bringing their research to market.
Nov 02, 2022
2022 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations
A group of COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2% of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above.
Jul 07, 2022
ECE PhD Students Win PETRA Best Student Paper Award
ECE PhD student Kyle Lockwood and coauthors received the best student paper award at PETRA 2022 (Corfu, Greece), with their paper titled “Leveraging Submovements for Prediction and Trajectory Planning for Human-Robot Handover”.