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Aug 06, 2026
Understanding What Causes Autonomous AI Systems to Misbehave
ECE Assistant Professor Lili Su explains that recent incidents of autonomous AI systems acting out of bounds stem from training gaps and human configuration errors rather than malicious intent.
Aug 06, 2026
Student Engineering Team Builds Custom Off Road Vehicle for National Competitions
Northeastern University’s Baja SAE student club designs and builds a custom off-road vehicle from scratch each year to test its performance in grueling multi-day national engineering competitions.
Aug 06, 2026
Two Northeastern Faculty Named 2027 AMS Fellows
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) announced its 2027 honorees across a variety of weather, climate, and water research areas, including the Class of 2027 AMS Fellows. This year, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s College of Engineering Distinguished Professors Auroop Ganguly and Yang Zhang were both inducted as AMS Fellows.
Aug 06, 2026
Optimizing Marine Sensors to Capture Detailed Ocean Data Efficiently
ECE Associate Professor Milad Siami, in collaboration with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), is leading a $612,062 NSF grant for “Energy-Aware Deployment and Scheduling for Sparse Ocean Sensor Networks.”
Aug 06, 2026
Northeastern helps lead $15M Army-funded center for next-generation sensing and communications
Josep M. Jornet and Tommaso Melodia, co-director and director of the Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems (INSI) at Northeastern University and faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, are co-principal investigators on a new $15 million research center funded by the Army Research Office to advance secure sensing, imaging and wireless communications.
Aug 05, 2026
Patent for Innovative System to Boost Speed and Efficiency in Quantum Computing
ECE Assistant Professor Xufeng Zhang was awarded a patent for “Slow-wave hybrid magnonics based on interacting magnons and spoof surface plasmon polaritons.”
Aug 05, 2026
Patent for AI Driven Digital Twin System to Improve Factory Efficiency
MIE Teaching Professor Mohammad Dehghani was awarded a patent for “Digital twin modeling and optimization of production processes.”
Aug 04, 2026
Brain Inspired Computer Chips Could Power Faster and More Efficient Supercomputers
ECE Professor Hossein Mosallaei received the U.S. Department of Energy’s AI Genesis Award to advance research on brain-inspired computer chips that could make future AI supercomputers significantly faster and much more energy-efficient.