Waleed Meleis
Interim Associate Dean for Graduate Education,
Office of the Dean
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering
Office
- 404 Dana Research Center
- 617.373.3023
Research Focus
Combinatorial optimization, algorithm design and analysis, scheduling, machine learning, parallel computing.
About
Waleed Meleis received his BSE degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1990, and the MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1992 and 1996. In 1996 he joined the Computer Engineering Group of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University.
Professor Meleis’s research is on developing and evaluating algorithms and bounds for combinatorially difficult optimization problems. He has made contributions to the following areas:
- Optimal scheduling and register allocation, with spill code, for multiple-issue processors
- Microprocessor-aware scheduling algorithms for modern compilers
- Algorithms for weighted-completion time scheduling
- Design and analysis of tight lower bounds on schedule length
- Backtracking acyclic schedulers
- Parallel and scalable processing systems and programming toolsets.
- Computational infrastructure for seamless, inter-site Grid computing
- Applications of combinatorial optimization to switching, testing, and reconfigurable computing
- Multiagent machine learning for distributed combinatorial optimization
Education
- PhD, University of Michigan, 1996
Honors & Awards
- COE Fostering Engineering Innovation in Education Award
- Black Engineering Student Society Professor Appreciation Award
- National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium
- College of Engineering Outstanding Teacher Award
- Martin W. Essigmann Outstanding Teaching Award
- Eta Kappa Nu Professor of the Year Award
Research Overview
Combinatorial optimization, algorithm design and analysis, scheduling, machine learning, parallel computing.
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- W. Li, F. Zhou, K. Chowdhury, W. Meleis, QTCP: Adaptive Congestion Control with Reinforcement Learning, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2018, 1
- W. Li, W. Meleis, Adaptive Adjacency Kanerva Coding for Memory-Constrained Reinforcement Learning, In International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition (MLDM), Springer, New York, 2018
- W. Li, F. Zhou, W. Meleis, K. Chowdhury, Dynamic Generalization Kanerva Coding in Reinforcement Learning for TCP Congestion Control Design, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Sao Paolo, Brazil, 2017
- J. Radford, A. Pilny, A. Reichelmann, B. Keegan, B. Welles, J. Hoye, K. Ognyanova, W. Meleis, D. Lazer, Volunteer Science: An Online Laboratory for Experiments in Social Psychology, Social Psychology Quarterly, 79(4), 2016
- L. Hayward, S. Ventura, M. Mahanna, W. Meleis, Inter-Professional Collaboration between Physical Therapy, Speech Language Pathology and Engineering Faculty and Students to Address Global Pediatric Rehabilitation Needs: A Case Report, Journal of Physical Therapy Education, 30(4), 2016
- C. Wu, W. Li, W. Meleis, Rough Sets-Based Prototype Optimization in Kanerva-Based Function Approximation, IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, 2015
- J. Radford, B. Keegan, J. Hoye, C. Karbeyaz, K. Ognyanova, B. Foucault Welles, W. Meleis, D. Lazer, Conducting Massively Open Online Social Experiments with Volunteer Science, International AAAII Conference on Web and Social Media, 2015
Apr 29, 2019
Faculty and Staff Awards 2019
Congratulations to all the winners of the faculty and staff awards, and to everyone for their hard work and dedication during the 2018-2019 academic school year. See Full Photo Gallery Faculty Fellow Matthew Eckleman, CEE Yongmin Liu, MIE Outstanding Teacher of First Year Engineering Students Joseph Depasquale, Chemistry Brian O’Connell, FYE Sumi Seo, Mathematics Matthew […]
Nov 08, 2017
Enabling Engineering Podcast Featuring ECE Professor Waleed Meleis
How do we design for the large part of the population with varying physical and cognitive abilities? In this What's New podcast, Waleed Meleis, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, discusses the mission, innovations, and impact of the student-led club Enabling Engineering group, which designs and builds low-cost devices for those with physical and […]
Jan 30, 2017
ECE Faculty Meet With Student Advisory Board
ECE Interim Chair Miriam Leeser, Associate Chair Waleed Meleis, and Associate Professor Purnima Ratilal-Makris met with undergraduate students in the ECE Student Advisory Board to discuss their experiences in the department. The Student Advisory Board is planning on meeting with the department regularly throughout the year. We look forward to continuing the conversation.
Oct 24, 2016
Dialogue of Civilizations trip to Italy, Summer 2 2017
What do weather prediction, the stock market, and phone call routing have to do with Galileo, Newton, and Leonardo da Vinci? Come to Italy to find out! Italy and the Scientific Revolutions Instructor: Prof. Waleed Meleis This Dialogue studies two revolutions in scientific thought: the Scientific Revolution of the 17th and 18th centuries and the […]
Jun 07, 2016
Advancing Teaching and Learning at Northeastern
Northeastern has awarded grants to two groups of faculty to promote Advancing Teaching and Learning at Northeastern.
May 02, 2016
Faculty and Staff Awards 2016
2016 Faculty and Staff Awards Congratulations to all the winners of the faculty and staff awards, and to everyone for their hard work and dedication during the 2015-2016 academic school year. Faculty Fellow Kaushik Chowdhury, ECE Carol Livermore, MIE Marilyn Minus, MIE Rising Star Staff Award Gabrielle Fiorenza, Co-op Nicole Nightingale, Dean’s Office […]
Mar 09, 2016
Giving Back During Spring Break
Enabling Engineering students spent their spring break in Ecuador showing kids with disabilities how to use devices they created which should help them. Source: News @ Northeastern A group of Northeastern engineering and physical therapy students have spent months developing four devices designed to help children with disabilities at an orphanage in Ecuador. On Sunday, […]
Aug 26, 2015
Exploring the Evolution of Scientific Thought
ECE Associate Professor Waleed Meleis led a group of students to Italy as part of a Dialogue of Civilizations to explore the Scientific and Computational Revolution.
Jun 08, 2015
Helping the Blind to Navigate Intersections
Under the direction of Associate Professor Waleed Meleis, a group of ECE capstone students develped an app to help those visually impaired navigate intersections.
Apr 09, 2015
Helping Kids Communicate
The student group Enabling Engineering delivered two low-cost communication devices to disabled children in Ecuador during their spring break.