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Sep 08, 2022

Outstanding Paper Award at IEEE HPEC Conference

Computer engineering student Baolin Li, PhD’24, and ECE Associate Professor Devesh Tiwari received an outstanding paper award (top ~5%) from the IEEE HPEC conference for their paper “Benchmarking Resource Usage for Efficient Distributed Deep Learning.” Li was also nominated as one of four students selected by Northeastern University for the Google PhD Fellowship.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jul 14, 2022

Using Background Checks to Find Trends in Gun Purchases

MIE Professor Rifat Sipahi and mechanical engineering student Xu Wang, PhD’25, have been studying firearm background checks to determine trends in gun acquisitions. What is driving gun purchases in the […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jul 13, 2022

Startup Developed From Cooling Paper Research

MIE Professor Yi Zheng and Andrew Caratenuto, PhD’24, mechanical engineering, created the startup company Planck Energies to develop a cooling paper they designed that could reduce cooling needs. Northeastern researchers […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jul 07, 2022

ECE PhD Students Win PETRA Best Student Paper Award

ECE PhD student Kyle Lockwood and coauthors received the best student paper award at PETRA 2022 (Corfu, Greece), with their paper titled “Leveraging Submovements for Prediction and Trajectory Planning for Human-Robot Handover”.

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jun 27, 2022

Best Paper Award in ACM DroneCom 2021, co-located with ACM MobiCom

ECE PhD student Sara Garcia Sanchez, advised by Professor Kaushik Chowdhury, won the best paper award at the 2021 4th International Workshop on Drone Assisted Wireless Communications for 5G and […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jun 09, 2022

PhD Students Contribute to Boston Area Climate Change Impact Report

PhD engineering students and alumni, who conducted research in Professor Auroop Ganguly’s Sustainability and Data Sciences Lab, contributed to the new research report published by The Greater Boston Research Advisory Group (G-BRAG), titled “Climate Change Impacts and Projections for the Greater Boston Area”, describing how climate change will impact the Boston area.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Jun 08, 2022

DeepCharge Startup Transforms Surfaces into Universal Chargers

Main photo: DeepCharge, a startup spun out of a Northeastern College of Engineering lab, enables any surface to charge electronic devices. For every electronic device you own, there’s one more […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

May 23, 2022

Computer Engineering PhD Wins Best Poster at CF22

Computer engineering student Nicolas Agostini, PhD’23, advised by ECE Professor David Kaeli, won the best poster award at the 19th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF22) for his poster […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering