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Jul 15, 2025
Northeastern Graduate Builds AI Assistant for MassDOT
Sai Panindra Santosh Kumar Majji, MS’24, engineering management, created a generative artificial intelligence assistant called the Highway Engineer Knowledge Assistant (HEKA) for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to help organize projects, documents and information for the engineering team.
Jul 15, 2025
Innovative Heat-Conductive Plastic Prevents Overheating of Electronics
MIE Professor Randall Erb and Daniel Braconnier, PhD’23, mechanical engineering, give insight into their research and development of a lightweight plastic-ceramic composite that can conduct heat and can be used to cool down advanced electronics.
Jul 14, 2025
Changing Careers to Create Inclusive Technologies
Wenjin Xu, MS’25, information systems, was a former educator and school principal before pursuing her master’s degree. The challenges along her journey have only empowered her and solidified her dream of creating meaningful and inclusive technologies to better serve communities.
Jul 14, 2025
ECE PhD Receives ACC 2025 Best Paper Finalist Award
Seyed Hamid Hosseini, PhD’26, electrical engineering, working under the supervision of Assistant Professor Mahdi Imani, received a Best Paper Finalist Award at the 2025 American Control Conference (ACC 2025) for his paper titled “Deep Reinforcement Learning for Intervention of Partially Observable Regulatory Networks.”
Jul 14, 2025
Designing Smarter Catalysts for Cleaner Methane Conversion
Sarah LaCroix, E’27, and Chengyu Zhou, PhD’28, co-authored a paper with ChE Assistant Professor Qing Zhao titled “Discovering Ni/Cu single-Atom Alloy as a Highly Active and Selective Catalyst for Direct Methane Conversion to Ethylene: A First-Principles Kinetic Study” that was featured in the Supplementary Journal Cover Art of ACS Catalysis.
Jul 09, 2025
Graduate’s Innovative Use of Artificial Intelligence Makes a Powerful Impact
Srivarini Mandali, MS’25, information systems, integrated her passion for technology and social change to develop innovative projects during her time at Northeastern.
Jul 09, 2025
Graduate Uses Technology as a Tool for Meaningful Change
Deshna Ashok Shah, MS’25, information systems, achieves her dream of learning how to use technology in a way to positively impact humanity through powerful curriculum and vigorous research opportunities.
Jun 30, 2025
Flexible, Interdisciplinary, and Industry-Aligned Sustainable Building Systems Program
Jose Velazquez, MS’24, sustainable building systems, worked full time while completing his master’s degree at Northeastern. Velazquez applied the knowledge he gained in class directly to his position at C&W Services.