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Improving RF resonator technology
“Electrical and computer engineering associate professor Cristian Casella and electrical engineering student Xuanyi Zhao, PhD’23, were awarded a patent for ‘Two Dimensional Rod Resonator for RF Filtering.'”
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Professor Yi Zheng’s efforts to share science with his community — and the world — garner a Scientist of the Year award
Associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineering Yi Zheng received the 2022 Scientist of the Year award from the New England Chinese American Alliance, both for his pioneering work in electricity-free cooling and water filtration systems and for his deep civic engagement.
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Matteo Rinaldi selected as Optica Fellow
Electrical and computer engineering professor Matteo Rinaldi was selected as a Fellow of Optica (formerly OSA) for pioneering contributions to the research, development and commercialization of zero-power wireless infrared sensors. Optica Fellows are selected based on several factors, including outstanding contributions to research, business, education, engineering and service to Optica and our community.
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Wireless Internet of Things Team wins best paper award at IEEE Globecom 2023
“Electrical and computer engineering professors Josep Jornet, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas and Milica Stojanovic, together with graduate students Duschia Bodet, PhD’25, and Phuc Dinh, PhD’25, all within the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things, together with Dr. Joerg Widmer at the IMDEA Networks Institute in Madrid, Spain, have received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2023 for their work titled ‘Characterizing Sub-THz MIMO Channels in Practice: A Novel Channel Sounder With Absolute Time Reference.'”
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Automating laboratories ‘to shift the paradigm of how people do science’
Assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology Sijia Dong has been named a Scialog Fellow in its Automating Chemical Laboratories initiative. She hopes to incorporate computer simulations and artificial intelligence into the experimental process to accelerate chemical discovery.
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Professor Analia Albuja receives SAGE Emerging Scholar Award for work on identities ‘that don’t neatly fit’ society’s expectations
Assistant professor of psychology Analia Albuja is among a cohort of eight scientists who have received a SAGE Emerging Scholar Award. Her work focuses on belonging, social identity and how subjects assert their identities in different situations.
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Ravinder Dahiya selected as IEEE Division X Director-Elect
ECE Professor Ravinder Dahiya was elected as IEEE Division X Director-Elect for 2024. Division X comprises the following societies and councils: –IEEE Computational Intelligence Society –IEEE Control Systems Society –IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society –IEEE Photonics Society –IEEE Robotics and Automation Society –IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society –IEEE Systems Council –IEEE Sensors Council
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Teaching AI to see in 3D: How Northeastern researchers are revolutionizing the field of computer vision
Associate professor of electrical and computer engineering Sarah Ostadabbas, with Ph.D. students Le Jiang and Zhouping Wang, is developing a computer vision algorithm that can estimate three-dimensional human movement — in real time — from livestreamed, two-dimensional video sources.
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Machine learning hardware at a billionth of the power cost
With a DARPA Young Faculty Award, Aatmesh Shrivastava designs machine learning hardware that uses less power — by a factor of billions.
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Kwong Chan receives Outstanding Paper award
Kwong Chan, an academic specialist in marketing and executive director of the DATA Initiative, received an Emerald Literati Award for Outstanding Paper for his article “How Fakes Make It Through: The Role of Review Features Versus Consumer Characteristics,” published in the Journal of Consumer Marketing.
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Ergun elected INFORMS Fellow
“Ozlem Ergun, College of Engineering distinguished professor in mechanical and industrial engineering, was elected a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) for her applications of operations research methods to humanitarian and health systems, emergency response and transportation and logistics problems; and for establishing a community of operations research professionals with interest in public programs. This honor is reserved for few select members. In 2023, only twelve members were elected Fellows.”
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Khoury theory researchers receive pair of best paper awards
“Former postdoctoral research associate Wei-Kai Lin, PhD. student Ethan Mook, and professor (and NTT research senior scientist) Daniel Wichs won the Best Paper Award at the ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing. The team’s research focused on maintaining user privacy in search engines through fully homomorphic encryption and discussed how the theory could be applied in practice. Meanwhile, professor Soheil Behnezhad won Best Paper at the ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, one of three flagship conferences in algorithms and theory. His research revolved around dynamic graph algorithms, optimizing processes for changing conditions and large datasets.”
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Northeastern professor Samina Karim receives prestigious award for career-defining paper — written 23 years ago
Samina Karim has received a best paper prize for a study published during her Ph.D. qualifying exams — 23 years ago — about how companies reconfigure in the wake of acquisitions. Co-written with her Ph.D. adviser Will Mitchell, who passed away in 2021, the experience has been “bittersweet,” Karim says.
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Patent awarded for subharmonic sensor technology
“Electrical and computer engineering associate professor Cristian Casella, professor Matteo Rinaldi and postdoctoral research associate Hussein Hussein were awarded a patent for ‘Subharmonic Tags for Remote Continuous and Threshold Sensing.'”
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Designing chips for AI-enabled spectrum perception
“Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Francesco Restuccia — in collaboration with Arjuna Madanayake from Florida International University, Vishal Saxena from the University of Delaware and Jia Di from the University of Arkansas — was awarded a $2,000,000 NSF grant for ‘FuSe: Deep Learning and Signal Processing Using Silicon Photonics and Digital CMOS Circuits for Ultra-Wideband Spectrum Perception.'”
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Hajjar begins service as president of Structural Engineering Institute
“Jerome F. Hajjar, PhD, PE, F.ASCE, F.SEI, CDM Smith Professor and chair of the department of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University, and member of the National Academy of Engineering, becomes the president of the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) in October 2023. With over 30,000 members, SEI, one of nine Institutes within the American Society of Civil Engineers, is a premier professional organization for structural engineers nationally and internationally.”
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Detecting arc faults in photovoltaic systems
“Electrical and computer engineering professor Bradley Lehman was awarded a patent for ‘Arc Fault Detection Based on Photovoltaic Operating Characteristics and Extraction of Pink Noise Behavior.'”
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As president-elect of neuroscience society, Northeastern professor advocates for access to the scholarly community
Assistant professor of psychology Ajay Satpute was recently made president-elect of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society. Over the course of his three-year appointment to society leadership, Satpute will pursue initiatives that increase access to the academic community for undergraduate, international and diverse scholars.
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Patent awarded for novel contaminated water treatment
“Senior Associate Dean for Research and Global University Campus Akram Alshawabkeh was awarded a patent for a ‘Robust Flow-Through Platform for Organic Contaminants Removal.'”
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Vincent Harris, research and industry leader in magnetic ceramics, receives lifetime achievement award
University Distinguished Professor Vincent Harris accepted a lifetime achievement award from the American Ceramic Society on Oct. 2 for his work on magnetoceramics, helping to usher in 5G technology.
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Ostadabbas selected as Eureka Award finalist within 2023 Oracle Excellence Awards
“Electrical and computer engineering associate professor Sarah Ostadabbas was selected as one of the finalists of the Eureka Award of the 2023 Oracle Excellence Awards. With Oracle for Research, researchers in academic, commercial and governmental settings, across all disciplines, are exploring novel ways to achieve ground-breaking results to make the world a better place.”
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Researchers win best paper award for content distribution framework
“A team of researchers from Northeastern University, MIT and EURECOM won the best paper award at the 21st International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad-hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt 2023) for their paper on ‘Joint Optimization of Storage and Transmission via Coding Traffic Flows for Content Distribution.'”
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Landherr wins Best ChemE Division Paper at Annual ASEE Conference
“Chemical engineering teaching professor and associate chair of undergraduate studies Luke Landherr was named to receive the Joseph J. Martin Award for the most outstanding Chemical Engineering Division paper presented at the 2023 ASEE Annual Conference. Their paper, entitled ‘Teaching Fugacity Through Comics and Assessing the Impact on Student Confidence and Understanding,’ is based on their research using comics as visual learning tools in undergraduate education.”
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Academy of Management 2023 Publication Awards
Northeastern faculty and post-docs were the recipients of numerous awards at the 2023 Academy of Management Conference.
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Enhancing antenna defense using smart metamaterials: A patent
“Vincent Harris, University Distinguished and William Lincoln Smith Professor of electrical and computer engineering, was awarded a patent for ‘Magnetodielectric Metamaterials and Articles Including Magnetodielectric Metamaterials.'”
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Ratilal-Makris selected to serve on Ocean Research Advisory Panel
“Electrical and computer engineering professor Purnima Ratilal-Makris is one of eighteen members selected for the newly formed Ocean Research Advisory Panel, who will serve as advisors to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the interagency Ocean Policy Committee. It is expected that the Panel will help carry out the administration’s goals regarding the Blue economy, resilience, ecosystem health and renewable ocean energy.”
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Center for Research Innovation awards $300K to ‘commercially valuable inventions’
“The Spark Fund supports commercially valuable inventions from university researchers in earlier stages of development,” the Center for Research Innovation wrote, “from any field. The goal of the award is to advance a technology or suite of technologies from academia toward commercialization.” Each cycle, award recipients receive a grant up to $50,000. In Fall 2023, those recipients were professors Rebecca Carrier, Eno Ebong, Randall Erb, Leigh Plant, Dori Woods and Yi Zheng. Follow the link to read more about their individual projects.
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How a deep dive into the internet’s vital protocols earned a ‘Best Paper’ honor
Milton Posner, for the Khoury College of Computer Science, details how “A Formal Analysis of Karn’s Algorithm,” a paper written by professor Cristina Nita-Rotaru, PhD. student Max von Hippel, and “Lenore Zuck at the University of Illinois Chicago, and Ken McMillan at the University of Texas at Austin,” has won a best paper award for its exploration of a protocol important to the basic functioning of the internet.
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Ozone Tattoo project empowers citizen scientists to track pollution in their communities
The revolutionary Ozone Tattoo project, created by professor Dietmar Offenhuber, teaches observers how to identify the specific damage patterns of ground-level ozone on plant leaves. The project is now a Falling Walls 2023 award winner.