News
May 24, 2023
Kostas Research Institute Receives $13M U.S. Army Contract for Wireless Research
The Kostas Research Institute (KRI) at Northeastern University has been awarded $13 million by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory for foundational research into Cognitive Distributed Sensing in Congested Radio Frequency Environments. KRI and five partner institutions will conduct innovative research to enable technologies in distributed machine learning, signal processing algorithms, and computational, sensing, and communication hardware infrastructure for distributed sensing and communication.
May 24, 2023
How AI Is Making Weather Forecasts More Accurate
Interdisciplinary engineering alumni Kate Duffy, PhD’21, and Thomas Vandal, PhD’18, both worked as NASA scientists before creating the new start-up, Zeus AI, which uses AI and machine learning to analyze data from satellites to improve weather forecasting.
May 23, 2023
Melachrinoudis Receives IISE Fellow Award
MIE Professor Emanuel Melachrinoudis was selected to receive the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Fellow Award.
May 23, 2023
Parameswaran Named ATS Rising Star
BioE Assistant Professor Harikrishnan Parameswaran was presented with a Rising Star Award for his research in the area of respiratory structure and function by the American Thoracic Society’s Science and Innovation Center (SIC).
May 22, 2023
Coming Soon: A Co-op Experience Living Under the Ocean in the World’s Largest Undersea Science Station
MES/CEE Professor Mark Patterson and CEE Affiliated Faculty Brian Helmuth serve as chief science advisors for the Proteus project, which involves the development of an underwater habitat observatory and lab off the coast of Curacao to research marine science and train for extreme environments like outer space.
May 22, 2023
BioE Spinout BrilliantSprings Is Finalist in ARPA-H Competition
The spinoff company BrilliantStrings Therapeutics of BioE Professor Jeffrey Ruberti and mechanical engineering alum Jeff Paten, PhD’14, made it to the “final four” of the “ARPA-H Dash” competition to accelerate health outcomes.
May 22, 2023
Creating 3D-Printed Materials Inspired by Nature To Protect EV Vehicle Batteries
MIE Associate Professor Yaning Li is designing new materials and fabricating them using 3D printing to protect EV batteries by creating a tiled auxetic metamaterial inspired by nature. She received a Spark Fund award from the Center for Research Innovation at Northeastern for this work.
May 18, 2023
Improving Inkjet Printing by Encapsulating Ink in Liquid Crystal for Advanced Materials
MIE Assistant Professor Xiaoyu Tang, in collaboration with Xiaoguang Wang from Ohio State University, was awarded a $625,000 NSF award for “Inkjet Printing Framework by Droplet Impact-induced Ink Release From Liquid Crystal Receiving Substrate.”