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How this Northeastern student is giving a voice to the voiceless

Anwita Chaudhry, a third year computer science student, is developing an app to help nonverbal students better communicate.
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How vulnerable are the 2026 midterm elections to cyberattacks?

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Three students smile while looking at a sticker-covered laptop at a round table in a yellow lounge on Northeastern’s Silicon Valley campus.

Silicon Valley mentorship club helps students ace technical interviews

The informal mentorship sessions have equipped more than 170 students with the skills needed to satisfy interviewers in Silicon Valley.
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Oakland students think up tech solutions to combat illegal dumping

A group of Oakland computer science students combined forces to tackle the problem with artificial intelligence and computer vision.
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Can scientists build a lie detector for AI chatbots?

Northeastern professor David Bau is studying how to make AI more interpretable and developing tools to make it easier to tell when it lies.
Someone types on a laptop displaying streaks of colorful, blurred text, evoking the speed and complexity of AI systems processing data.

Finding the right AI models for specific tasks using LLMs as a ‘judge’

This student used large language models as a “judge” to evaluate customers’ problems with some of the most popular AI models.
Illustration of a car surrounded by disembodied eyes, with a beam of binary code connecting a central eye to the vehicle; icons for cloud storage, a personal ID, location tracking, and data charts surround the scene, symbolizing surveillance and data collection from connected vehicles.

Your car is collecting more data about you than you think

Northeastern professors tested 21 vehicles and their accompanying mobile apps to investigate what data manufacturers collect and share.
David Ayman Shamma smiling, wearing a gray collared shirt, standing near a window with natural light.

Meet the professor who thinks generic AI models should become obsolete

David Ayman Shamma, who has researched AI for more than two decades, said all-purpose AI models may soon outgrow their usefulness.

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