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May 20, 2024
Preparing Autonomous Vehicles for the Mainstream Market
ECE/Khoury Assistant Professor Michael Everett explains why current autonomous vehicle technology isn’t ready for the mainstream market. The autonomy kits used on these vehicles aren’t precise enough to meet safety standards, he says.
May 20, 2024
Enhancing Diversity in Engineering Departments
ChE Professor and Chair Rebecca Willits’ research on “Framework for Department-Level Accountability To Diversify Engineering” was published in Nature Reviews Bioengineering.
May 20, 2024
Test and Measurement: Northeastern’s OTIC up and Running
ECE William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia was featured in the RCR Wireless article “Test and Measurement: Northeastern’s OTIC up and Running.”
May 20, 2024
Leeser Delivers Keynote at FCCM 2024
ECE Professor Miriam Leeser gave a keynote speech on “Pets vs Cattle: Heterogeneous Systems in the 21st Century” at the 32nd IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines.
May 20, 2024
Northeastern Research Shows the Benefits of Shifting to Standardized Employment
MIE Distinguished Professor Ozlem Ergun and other Northeastern researchers presented findings that suggest both workers and platforms may benefit from a move away from the independent contractor model to standardized employment. The interdisciplinary research team studied the working behavior of the package delivery platform Deliv for the study.
May 20, 2024
ECE Professors Recognized Among Leading Women in Visual Tech and AI
ECE Professor Octavia Camps and ECE Associate Professor Sarah Ostadabbas were recognized by LDV Capital as two of the 120+ Women Spearheading Advances in Visual Tech and AI, which highlights contributions of women in fields such as machine vision, pattern recognition, and generative models.
May 15, 2024
What the EPA’s Ban on ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water Means for Massachusetts
CEE Assistant Professor Julia Hopkins was featured in the Boston Globe article What the EPA’s ban on ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water means for Massachusetts.
May 15, 2024
Video Friday: Loco-Manipulation
ECE Assistant Professor Alireza Ramezani’s Silicon Synapse Lab was featured in IEEE Spectrum’s “Video Friday: Loco-Manipulation,” their weekly selection of awesome robotics videos.