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Aug 02, 2023
Q. Jim Chen and CEE Host 2023 FUNWAVE Workshop
Northeastern University hosted the fifth FUNWAVE-TVD Training Workshop, which brought together researchers and students from around the world to discuss the use of modeling software to predict coastal hazards.
Aug 01, 2023
2023 Summer Bridge Scholars Program for First-Year Undergrads
Northeastern’s Summer Bridge program, which started in the College of Engineering and is now university-wide, is a week-long program designed to help historically underrepresented accepted students prepare for their first year of college with mentoring, teambuilding, academic previews, and more.
Jul 31, 2023
Using Visual Correspondences To See the World in Motion
ECE Associate Professor Xue “Shelley” Lin, in collaboration with Khoury Assistant Professor Huaizu Jiang, was awarded a $600,000 NSF grant for “Toward Efficient and Robust Dynamic Scene Understanding Based on Visual Correspondences.”
Jul 26, 2023
Creating Next-Gen Robotic e-Skin With Sensing and Actuation Capabilities
ECE Professor Ravinder Dahiya was awarded a $230,000 NSF Eager grant for “Flexible and Compressible e-Skin Integrated with Soft Magnetic Coil Based Ultra-thin Actuator and Touch Sensor for Robotics Applications.”
Jul 26, 2023
Chowdhury Selected as Finalist for Blavatnik National Award in Physical Sciences & Engineering
ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury was selected as a finalist for the 2023 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists in Physical Sciences & Engineering for addressing the global need of telecommunications spectrum scarcity, as well as improve connectivity by designing next generation wireless systems and machine learning-based network operations.
Jul 26, 2023
Eco-Friendly Passive Cooling With Recycled Packaging Plastics
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng’s research group Nano Energy Laboratory published their research on “Oil-Paper-Umbrella-Inspired Passive Radiative Cooling Using Recycled Packaging Foam” in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A and “Eco-friendly Passive Radiative Cooling Using Recycled Packaging Plastics” in Materials Today Sustainability.
Jul 25, 2023
Predicting River Floods in New England
MES/CEE Associate Professor Samuel Muñoz is using satellite imagery and AI to develop a predictive model for river flooding in New England.
Jul 25, 2023
Enhancing Security for Brain-Inspired Computing
ECE Assistant Professor Xiaolin Xu, in collaboration with Shaolei Ren from the University of California-Riverside, was awarded a $600,000 NSF grant for “Securing Brain-Inspired Hyperdimensional Computing Against Design-time and Run-time Attacks for Edge Devices.”