News
Mar 30, 2026
Auguste Elected AAAS Fellow
ChE Professor Debra Auguste was elected as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2025 Fellow in the Engineering section for seminal contributions to the field of biomaterials, particularly in the study of chemical and mechanical methods to enhance targeted delivery.
Mar 30, 2026
First Observation of Quantum Oscillations in Second-Order Electrical Transport
COS/ECE Professor Mingzhong Wu and his team recently published “Quantum Oscillations of Nonlinear Electrical Transport in a Topological Dirac Semimetal” in Physical Review Letters.
Mar 30, 2026
Amini & Oakes Named ASME Associate Editors of the Year
MIE Associate Professor Rouzbeh Amini was named the 2025 Associate Editor of the Year by the ASME Open Journal of Engineering and BioE Associate Professor Jessica Oakes was named the 2025 Associate Editor of the Year by the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering.
Mar 30, 2026
Making AI in Healthcare Reliable with Dr. Burcu Ozek
Dr. Burcu Ozek is currently a Principal AI Scientist at Walkky after completing a PhD in industrial engineering at Northeastern. Looking back at her time with Northeastern, Ozeck shares the value of the LEADERs program and how her hands-on experience gave her the necessary skills to communicate across teams in her work with AI in healthcare.
Mar 30, 2026
NU Engineering Students Publish and Present at the 2026 ASEE-NE Conference
Engineering students, under the guidance of COE Distinguished Teaching Professor Bala Maheswaran, published and presented papers at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Northeast Section Conference on March 27–28, 2026, in Manchester, NH.
Mar 27, 2026
Where Impact Meets Innovation, Abhiram Elango, MS’25
Abhiram Elango, MS’25, electrical and computer engineering, recently completed his master’s degree at Northeastern. Armed with new confidence and expertise, he is now pursuing roles in wireless communications where he can work closely with customers and see the direct impact of his work.
Mar 26, 2026
NSF CAREER Award to Develop Next Generation Optical Frequency Combs
ECE Assistant Professor Sunil Mittal was awarded a $560K NSF CAREER award for “On-Chip Coupled Resonator Arrays for Generating Unconventional Classical and Quantum Optical Frequency Combs (CRAYONS).”
Mar 26, 2026
Spoiled: How One Polymer Could Change the Way We Trust Our Food and Medicine
Tara Arjomandbigdeli, PhD’27, is an interdisciplinary engineering researcher at Northeastern’s eSOIL, a lab where she is developing a heat-sensitive polymer label designed to protect consumers by detecting when temperature-sensitive products like food or medication have spoiled. With plans to launch a startup from her research, she hopes to bring the technology to market—and eventually into every home.