Yousof Naderi

About

Yousof Naderi is a Research Assistant Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Northeastern University, Boston, and a member of the GENESYS Lab and the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things. He is a technology entrepreneur, innovator, and his interest lies in the intersection of research and commercialization in the areas of AI-powered cyber-physical systems, intelligent surfaces, and self-powered networked robotics. He has track record of building and leveraging successful strategic and synergetic partnerships with academia and industry. He received his Ph.D. from Northeastern University in December 2015.

Yousof is the recipient of the NEU Ph.D. dissertation fellowship in 2015, a finalist in the Bell Labs Prize competition in 2017, best paper awards at IEEE GLOBECOM 2019 and INFOCOM 2018, and Acorn Innovation award 2021. He has co-authored numerous scientific journals, book chapters, conference papers, and US patents. He has an organizing role in community building on software-defined radios such as organizing member of New England Workshop on Software Defined Radio (NEWSDR) 2017-2021. He has served as chair, TPC member, and reviewer of several conferences, and journals. His co-founded company DeepCharge Inc. has received early investment from the Ideaship fund consists of US Panasonic IP and GTT group, selected for Creative Destruction Lab accelerator at NYU Stern School of Business in 2019, received NEU prestige GapFund360 awards in 2019/phase I and 2020/phase II, and has been the finalist of MassChallenge 2021.

Faculty

Jul 22, 2022

Six Engineering Spinouts Selected as Eddies Finalists

Six spinout companies that were created by engineering faculty have been selected as finalists for the Massachusetts Innovation Network’s innovation competition, The Eddies. Every year, the Massachusetts Innovation Network hosts its signature innovation competition, The Eddies. The Eddies (formerly known as NE Innovation Awards) is the oldest and longest running innovation competition in New England. […]

Faculty

Jun 28, 2022

Two Patents Issued for Naderi & Chowdhury Innovation

ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury and Research Assistant Professor Yousof Naderi were awarded patents for “Encoding and decoding data in communication frames of a communications protocol” and “Distributed wireless charging system and method.”

Faculty

Jun 08, 2022

DeepCharge Startup Transforms Surfaces into Universal Chargers

Main photo: DeepCharge, a startup spun out of a Northeastern College of Engineering lab, enables any surface to charge electronic devices. For every electronic device you own, there’s one more charger to lose, forget, mix up with a different charger, or simply forget to plug in. But what if charging took up no more thought […]

In the Media

May 10, 2022

NU Startup ‘DeepCharge’ Featured on Forbes

DeepCharge, founded by ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury and Research Assistant Professor Yousof Naderi, was featured in the Forbes article “DeepCharge Develops Universal Wireless Charging“. DeepCharge is a NU startup and part of the accelerator program at the Roux Institute.

Faculty

Oct 08, 2020

Transferring Energy Wirelessly to Power Devices

ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury and Research Assistant Professor Yousof Naderi were awarded a patent for “Distributed wireless charging system and method.”

Faculty

Jan 30, 2020

Eight COE Projects Selected for GapFund360

Northeastern’s GapFund360 program helps Northeastern’s researchers bridge the gap between promising lab results and demonstrating a commercially viable prototype. Awards range from $50K -$100K. Nine projects were selected from a pool of 39 applications from across the university; COE contributed 25 of the applications and seven projects were selected for funding. Congratulations to the following COE researchers whose projects were selected for Phase I or Phase II GapFund360 funding: ChE Assistant Professor Sidi Bencherif, MIE Assistant Professor Safa Jamali, ECE Assistant Professor Sarah Ostadabbas, ChE/COS Associate Professor Carolyn Lee-Parsons, ECE Professor Tommaso Melodia, ECE Associate Research Scientist Salvatore D’Oro, ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury, ECE Principal Research Scientist Yousof Naderi, ECE Postdoc Ufuk Muncuk, ECE Professor Vincent Harris, ECE Associate Research Scientist Parisa Andalib, ECE Associate Professor Matteo Rinaldi, and ECE Research Assistant Professor Zhenyun Qian.

Faculty

Sep 12, 2019

Wirelessly Charging Multiple Devices Simultaneously

ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury and Principal Research Scientist Yousof Naderi are working on technology that could turn any surface into a wireless charger to power several different devices simultaneously.

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