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Second place at Climatech
Associate professor Leila Deravi’s innovation team secured second place at the Massachusetts Climatetech Studio Showcase, a groundbreaking initiative designed to foster climate innovation through entrepreneurship.
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Aerial robotic wings — a patent
“Associate professor Alireza Ramezani received a patent for ‘Armwing Structures for Aerial Robots.'”
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Shafai receives lifetime achievement award for control systems engineering
“Professor Bahram Shafai received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 9th International Conference on Integrated Systems, Design and Technology (ISD2025) in recognition of his outstanding contributions to electrical and computer engineering for the advancement of robust control design.”
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Cassella and students win IEEE Outstanding Paper Award
“Assistant professor Cristian Cassella and his electrical engineering students, Onurcan Kaya, PhD’25, and Xuanyi Zhao, PhD’24, had their paper ‘Piezoelectric Microacoustic Metamaterial Filters’ selected for the 2024 UFFC Outstanding Paper Award by the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society.”
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Improving communications with A
“Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Francesco Restuccia and electrical and computer engineering William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia received a patent for ‘System for Frequency Sharing in Open Radio Access Networks Using Artificial Intelligence.'”
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Ultra-efficient AI for wearables and IoT
“Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Xiaolin Xu, in collaboration with the University of California-Riverside, was awarded a $560K NSF grant for ‘Designing and Optimizing Tiny Vector Symbolic Architectures for Ultra-Efficient Inference on Tiny Devices.'”
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Best paper award for wireless safety research
“Samar Elmaadawy, PhD’25, electrical engineering, and electrical and computer engineering professor and associate dean for research Josep Jornet’s paper on ‘Thermal and SAR-Based Limits for Human Skin Exposed to Terahertz Radiation’ won the Best Paper Award at the 5th International Telecommunications Conference (ITC-Egypt’2025) in July 2025.”
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Best presentation award on just-in-time learning
“Mechanical and industrial engineering associate teaching professor Marguerite Matherne received the Best Presentation Award for her paper ‘Effectiveness of Just-In-Time Teaching on Helping Students Achieve Lower Order Learning Goals in a Mechanics of Materials Class,’which was presented at the 2024 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference. Matherne was presented the award at the 2025 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference on June 24, 2025.”
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IEEE best paper award goes to Jornet
“Electrical and computer engineering professor and associate dean for research Josep Jornet’s research on ‘Terahertz Band Communication: An Old Problem Revisited and Research Directions for the Next Decade’ received the 2025 IEEE Communications Society Best Survey Paper Award, which will be presented at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2025 ceremony in Taipei, Taiwan, in December 2025. This award honors the author(s) of an especially meritorious paper published in the past five years in a ComSoc owned journal dealing with a subject related to the Society’s technical scope.”
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Prometheus initiative aims for cleaner combustion technology
“Chemical engineering professor Richard West, in collaboration with Kyle Niemeyer from Oregon State University, was awarded a $599,925 NSF grant for ‘Disciplinary Improvements: The Prometheus Initiative: FAIR Model and Data Cyberinfrastructure for Predictive Combustion Science.’ By helping to transition the combustion research community from its traditionally closed nature to an Open Science and collaborative paradigm, this grant aims to demonstrate that the open, distributed and zero-barrier model of data sharing can serve as a model for other fields.”
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Hajjar receives SSRC Distinguished Member Award
“Civil and environmental engineering university distinguished and CDM Smith Professor and Chair Jerome Hajjar was selected to receive the 2025 Structural Stability Research Council (SSRC) Distinguished Member Award, which is presented annually to an SSRC member who has actively served the organization for years and made outstanding contributions to its work and mission. Hajjar will receive his award at the 2025 SSRC Annual Stability Conference in Louisville, Kentucky in April, 2025.”
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Heat-resistant ceramic patent for wireless devices
“Electrical and computer engineering University Distinguished and William Lincoln Smith professor Vincent Harris was awarded a patent for developing a ‘Ceramic Frequency Selective Surface.'”
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National Academy of Inventors honors Northeastern innovators
“Northeastern’s National Academy of Inventors chapter honored electrical and computer engineering University Distinguished and William Lincoln Smith Professor Vincent Harris with the Innovation Impact Award; Justin Hayes, PhD’25, chemical engineering, with the Student Innovation Impact Award; and bioengineering assistant research professor Saeed Amal with the Emerging Visionary Award, for their significant contributions to innovation, particularly in AI-driven healthcare.”
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DARPA Award to revolutionize navigation systems
“Electrical and computer engineering associate professor Cristian Cassella (PI), professor Matteo Rinaldi, professor David Horsley, and assistant professor Benyamin Davaji were awarded a $2 million DARPA grant for ‘Enabling Higher Scale Factors in Gyroscopes Through soFt and LacAlized interface-States in microelectromecHanical resonators (FLASH).’ This project aims to develop a new microelectromechanical (MEMS) inertial sensor surpassing the material-limited performance of the existing counterparts by exploiting topological properties in thin-film piezoelectric metamaterials.”
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NSF grant awarded for adaptive clothing
“Electrical and computer engineering associate professor Kris Dorsey and Khoury/mechanical and industrial engineering assistant professor Megan Hofmann, in collaboration with Emory University, were awarded a $699,789 NSF grant for ‘Adaptive Intelligent Healthcare Garment: Advancing Real-Time Monitoring and Behavioral Interventions.'”
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Patent for automated of drone swarm networks
“Electrical and computer engineering William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia and associate research professor Salvatore D’Oro were awarded a patent for ‘Software Defined Drone Network Control System.'”
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AI-powered drone networks
“Electrical and computer engineering William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia and associate research professor Salvatore D’Oro were awarded a patent for ‘Distributed Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for Software-Defined Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Network Control.'”
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Patent for magnetic microwires in medicine
“Distinguished University and Cabot professor Laura Lewis, chemical engineering/mechanical and industrial engineering, and chemical engineering associate professor Abigail Koppes were awarded a patent for ‘Magnetic Microwires for Energy-Transporting Biomedical Applications.'”
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Patents for experimental virtual reality methods
“Electrical and computer engineering affiliated faculty Eugene Tunik and Bouvé/electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Mathew Yarossi were awarded a patent for ‘Computer-Implemented Methods and Systems for Designing and Conducting Virtual Reality Experiments.'”
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Polese new AI-and-RAN Working Group chair
“Electrical and computer engineering assistant research professor Michele Polese was elected as Chair of the WG2 AI-and-RAN Working Group. Polese will chair one of the three working groups of the AI-RAN Alliance, an initiative spanning industry and academia that aims to transform how networks are designed with AI and support AI. This is an area of significant interest for both our research and the full realization of the AI-RAN Alliance vision.”
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Next-gen, ai-driven cellular devices
“Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Francesco Restuccia, in collaboration with Saint Louis University, was awarded a $900,000 NSF grant for ‘Securing xApps in Open RANs with Reliable and Principled AI Red-Teaming.'”
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Furth wins Exceptional Paper Award
“Civil and environmental engineering professor Peter Furth and his former student Milad Tahmasebi, PhD’24, civil engineering, won the Exceptional Paper Award at the 104th Annual Transportation Research Board Meeting for ‘Reducing Speeding by Removing Speeding Opportunities: Field Test of Safe Waves Traffic Signal Timing.'”
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Hajjar receives 2025 BSCES College Educator Award
“Civil and environmental engineering Professor Jerome Hajjar was selected to receive the 2025 BSCES College Educator Award from the Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers for contributions to the Northeastern University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and support of the students of Northeastern University.”
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Patent for efficient computation
“Electrical and computer engineering professor Edmund Yeh was awarded a patent for ‘Network and Method for Servicing a Computation Request.'”
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Patent for hybrid nanopore technology
“College of science and bioengineering professor Meni Wanunu received a patent for ‘Lipid-Free Anchoring of Thermophilic Bacteriophage G20c Portal Adapter Into Solid-State Nanopores.'”
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Hajjar receives 2025 William H. Wisely American Civil Engineer Award
“Civil and enviromental engineering professor Jerome Hajjar was selected to receive the 2025 William H. Wisely American Civil Engineer Award for his exceptional ‘leadership in advancing civil engineering education, computational analysis, experimental testing, field investigation and design of resilient and sustainable steel and composite steel/concrete buildings, bridges and infrastructure systems; regional simulation; structural stability; and earthquake engineering.'”
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Xu receives DAC Under-40 Innovators Award
“Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Xiaolin Xu was named a recipient of the 2025 IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) Under-40 Innovators Award. This prestigious honor recognizes up to five early-career researchers each year whose pioneering work is shaping the future of electronic design and automation—spanning emerging areas such as neuromorphic computing, biological systems, cybersecurity and cyber-physical systems.”
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Shrivastava receives DARPA director fellowship
“Electrical and computer engineering associate professor Aatmesh Shrivastava has been awarded the highly selective DARPA Director’s Fellowship Award. This elite recognition goes to top performers of DARPA’s Young Faculty Award program, which Shrivastava received previously for ‘Nano-Watt Power Machine-Learning Hardware Using Precision Analog Computing.’ This year, Shrivastava stood among only 12 recipients nationwide across all disciplines, underscoring his exceptional contributions to cutting-edge research.”
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“Mechanical and industrial engineering assistant professor Juner Zhu and research scientist Wei Li were awarded a $500,000 NSF three-year grant for ‘Mechanics Informatics for Learning Constitutive Models: Theory, Computation, and Uncertainty Quantification.'”