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Mar 25, 2026
Best Paper Award at 3DV 2026 for LAPA Multi-Camera Point Tracking
ECE Associate Professor Sarah Ostadabbas and her team of PhD, MS, and postdoctoral researchers at the Augmented Cognition Lab received the Best Paper Award at the 2026 International Conference on 3D Vision for their paper on “Look Around and Pay Attention: Multi-camera Point Tracking Reimagined with Transformers”.
Mar 25, 2026
Plans to Fill the Sky with Satellites May Have Disastrous Consequences
SpaceX and Reflect Orbital have plans to send up a vast quantity of satellites to space, aiming to increase the number of data centers or use sunlight reflecting space mirrors. CSSH/CEE Assistant Professor Tiffany Nichols helps weigh in on the drastic effects of these endeavors, warning that the disruption of the day-night cycle will affect all life on Earth in potentially disastrous ways.
Mar 24, 2026
Innovation in the World of Wireless Communication
Pietro Brach del Prever, PhD’27, computer engineering, is conducting research at the Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems. With the support of Northeastern and a drive to push boundaries, Brach del Prever continues to dedicate himself to research that advances wireless communication.
Mar 23, 2026
Trust the System: A Q M Sazzad Sayyed’s Mission to Make AI Safer
A Q M Sazzad Sayyed, PhD’27, is an electrical engineering researcher at Northeastern’s MENTIS Lab, where he works on making AI systems safer and more reliable—ensuring they can be trusted when deployed in the real world. His work on robustness, out-of-distribution detection, and data integrity positions him at the forefront of a challenge that will only grow more critical as AI becomes further embedded in everyday life.
Mar 23, 2026
New Space Engineering Club Set to Launch Their First Satellite
Northeastern’s Satellite Laboratory will be launching their first satellite with a resupply mission to the ISS. Coming from Aerospace NU, the club branched out to focus on their own ambitions, hoping to give Northeastern a permanent place for spacecraft engineering research.
Mar 17, 2026
Patent for Arc Fault Detection for Solar Power Systems
ECE Professor Bradley Lehman was awarded a patent for “Arc fault detection using current signal demodulation, outlier elimination, and autocorrelation energy thresholds.”
Mar 16, 2026
NSF CAREER Award To Develop Next-Generation Energy Diagnostics
MIE Assistant Professor Juner Zhu received a $630K NSF CAREER award for “Interpretable Electro-Chemo-Mechanical Analytics, Diagnostics, and Artificial Intelligence for Porous Electrodes.”
Mar 13, 2026
Simpler, Faster, More Human: Shweta Shinde’s Path to Product Management
Shweta Shinde, MS’25, is an engineering management graduate from Northeastern whose technical background and hands-on industry experience have shaped her into a product manager focused on one core goal: making the user’s experience simpler, faster, and more human.