Associate Professor Hossein Mosallaei is developing a method to incorporate active electronic circuits
ECE Associate Professor Hossein Mosallaei is developing a method to incorporate active electronic circuits into metamaterials to prevent frequency bandwidth problems.
Assistant Professor Yun Raymond Fu and Collaborator Receive Technion-Northeastern University Research Partnership Grant
Assistant Professor Yun Raymond Fu and collaborator receive Technion-Northeastern University Research Partnership Grant "Self-Learning Engine for Anomaly Detection in Crowd Behavior (SLEAD),"
The grant has been approved for one-year funding ($90,000) under the Technion-Northeastern University Research Partnership in Homeland Security Technology. Assistant Professor Yun Raymond Fu have been awarded $45,000, and his collaborator Professor Israel Cohen at the Technion has also been awarded $45,000.
New ECE Distinguished Speaker Series starts Thursday, January 31th 2013
Created and sponsored by the Northeastern University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the ECE Distinguished Speaker Series is our flagship seminar series, designed to bring to campus highly accomplished technical leaders in academia or industry who will address a wide variety of topics of interest to our community. Everyone is invited to attend, from undergraduates on up to faculty and industry friends.
All talks are scheduled to take place at 4 pm in Room 378 at 140 The Fenway (unless noted otherwise). Each talk will be free of charge and open to the general public. Refreshments will be served during each presentation.
Directions to the Northeastern University main campus and parking information may be found on-line (http://www.northeastern.edu/campusmap). Directions to Room 378 at 140 The Fenway may be found here.
Professor Hossein Mosallaei's exciting work on a new way of light processing is featured on InSolution NEU Blog.
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Professor Dana Brooks and Colleagues Awarded CIMIT Grant
Professor Dana Brooks, Srinivas Sridhar and colleagues awarded CIMIT Grant for "Mutli-Model Imaging Nanoplatforms for Image-Guided Therapies" (CIMIT no. 13-1087).
Assistant Professor Yun Raymond Fu and colleague publish new book by Springer, “Graph Embedding for Pattern Analysis. Fu, Yun; Ma, Yunqian (Eds.) 2013, 2013, VIII, 260 p. 91 illus., 63 in color. ”
"Graph Embedding for Pattern Analysis covers theory methods, computation, and applications widely used in statistics, machine learning, image processing, and computer vision. This book presents the latest advances in graph embedding theories, such as nonlinear manifold graph, linearization method, graph based subspace analysis, L1 graph, hypergraph, undirected graph, and graph in vector spaces. Real-world applications of these theories are spanned broadly in dimensionality reduction, subspace learning, manifold learning, clustering, classification, and feature selection. A selective group of experts contribute to different chapters of this book which provides a comprehensive perspective of this field."
Professor Mario Sznaier presented with a 2012 IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Member Award at the 2012 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.”
The award citation reads: "For scientific contributions to multi objective robust control, dynamic vision and imaging, and identification, and for outstanding service to the Control Systems Society in his role as Executive Director and member of the Board of Governors."
"According to the IEEE CSS page, this award is given to recognize significant technical contributions and outstanding long-term service to the Control Systems Society. This was one of two Distinguished Member Awards given in 2012. Less than 90 members of the Control Systems Society have been named distinguished members since the creation of the society."(currently the society has about 9300 members)
Vince Harris is the recipient of the IMR-Lee Hsun Research Award.
"The award is presented to individuals who "made significant contributions to the materials science and engineering, and have a good personal reputation in some aspect of materials sciences and engineering." The award recipients are chosen by a committee consisting of chief professors at IMR. The award has been given since 2002, and has been awarded to researchers the world over for their contributions to materials research. Past awardees include Prof. Kotobu Nagai of the National Institute of Materials Research in Japan, Prof. Xinhe Bao of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Prof. Hael Mughrabi of the Institut für Werkstoffwissenschaften at Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Prof. Subra Suresh of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and many other distinguished professors in the field of materials engineering."
"The award is named for Professor Lee Hsun, who was the director of the IMR from 1951 until his death in 1983. Prof. Lee is best known for his discovery of hydrogen embrittlement, for which he received a Brunton medal in 1945."
Congratulations to Professor Carmine Vittoria and his graduate student Marjan Mohebbi for winning the best poster award at the MRS conference in Boston.
Associate Professor Edmund Yeh's Monograph Published
Edmund M. Yeh (2012) "Fundamental Performance Limits in Cross-layer Wireless Optimization: Throughput, Delay, and Energy", Foundations and Trends(r) in Communications and Information Theory: Vol. 9: No 1, pp 1-112.
The Foundations and Trends series has become influential in the communication/information theory/networking communities.
Professor's Carey Rappaport, Jose Martinez and their co-authors win the best paper award at the HST Conference.
Congratulations to Professor's Carey Rappaport, Jose Martinez and their co-authors for winning the best paper award at the IEEE Homeland Security Technology Conference.
Professor & Associate Dean David Kaeli, Professor & Associate Dean Agnes H. Chan, ECE & CCS dual Assistant Professor Will Robertson receive $4.5M award to train future cybersecurity workforce
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New ECE Distinguished Speaker Series starts Thursday, October 18th 2012
Assistant Professor Matteo Rinaldi elected as a member of the IEEE UFFC Society Administrative Committee
Assistant Professor Matteo Rinaldi has been elected as a member of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society Administrative Committee (AdCom) for a three-year term 1 January 2013 - 31 December 2015.
Professor Tony Devaney releases new book, "Mathematical Foundations of Imaging, Tomography And Wavefield Inversion."
Congratulations to Professor Tony Devaney on his new book, "Mathematical Foundations of Imaging, Tomography And Wavefield Inversion." It was released in June and has already sold over five hundred copied.
Professor Charles DiMarzio and colleagues publication featured in Nature Communications web journal, "Deep-tissue focal fluorescence imaging with digitally time-reversed ultrasound-encoded light".
Professor Charles DiMarzio and colleagues publication featured in Nature Communications web journal, "Deep-tissue focal fluorescence imaging with digitally time-reversed ultrasound-encoded light".
A new strategy for imaging fluorescent objects embedded up to a depth of 2.5mm in biological tissue is presented in Nature Communications this week. The approach improves on existing techniques and takes a step towards more realistic imaging scenarios.
High resolution fluorescence imaging is an important tool for biomedical research, but light is strongly scattered in tissue, making it difficult to image deep inside a medium. Ying min Wang and colleagues make gains in this field by combining ultrasound encoding with background cancellation and wavefront manipulation. Ultrasound waves focused into a medium produce a localised shift in the frequency of a probing laser beam, tagging the region of interest with a new frequency.. A probe beam at the shifted frequency is was modulated using a measured reference signal and then sent into the medium, where it effectively cancelled out the effects produced by scattering. This leaves only the light originating from the fluorescent object of interest embedded within.
The authors demonstrate the technique using quantum dots and tumour microtissues placed between two 2.5mm thick slices of tissue. The improvement in achievable depth allows for more realistic imaging scenarios and is a step towards in vivo applications.
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"Nature Communications is an online-only, multidisciplinary journal dedicated to publishing high-quality research in all areas of the biological, physical and chemical sciences. Papers published by the journal represent important advances of significance to specialists within each field."
Assistant Professor Kaushik Chowdhury and his PhD student Rahman Doost have been selected for the best paper award at IEEE International Conference on Communications
Assistant Professor Kaushik Chowdhury and his PhD student Rahman Doost have been selected for the best paper award at IEEE International Conference on Communications
The paper (1569511647) entitled “Enhancing Wireless Medical Telemetry through Dynamic Spectrum Access” has been selected to receive the IEEE ICC 2012 - Cognitive Radio and Networks Symposium Best Paper Award.
ECE Grad student Margery Hines with her IGERT video presentation on walking robot based mine detection was one of 20 recipients (out of 120 entrants) of a $2000 award, announced Friday at the NSF Competition in Washington, DC.
ECE Grad student Margery Hines with her IGERT video presentation on walking robot based mine detection was one of 20 recipients (out of 120 entrants) of a $2000 award, announced Friday at the NSF Competition in Washington, DC.
Congratulations to Professor Carey Rappaport and Margery Hines and for this prestigious award !
Associate Professor Edmund Yeh was awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowship
Associate Professor Edmund Yeh was awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowship to develop improved internet and wireless technologies.
ECE Capstone project offers independence to physically disabled
ECE Capstone project offers independence to physically disabled.
iCRAFT (eye Controlled Robotic Arm Feeding Technology) won first place in ECE Capstone Design Competition 2012. Pictured are teammates Ryan LaVoie, James Barron, Pedro Lopes, Nick Aquino, Basel Magfory, Mohammed Kante and advisor electrical and computer engineering professor Waleed Meleis. Photo by Mary Knox Merrill.
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Professors Lee Makowski, Dana Brooks, and Assistant Professor Deniz Erdogmus have been awarded a $657K NSF grant
Professors Lee Makowski, Dana Brooks, and Assistant Professor Deniz Erdogmus have been awarded a $657K NSF grant to determine the "Precise Characterization of Conformational Ensembles".
Associate Professor Engin Kirda selected as the inaugural Sy & Laurie Sternberg Interdisciplinary Associate Professor for Information Assurance
ECE & CCS Associate Professor Engin Kirda was selected as the inaugural Sy and Laurie Sternberg Interdisciplinary Associate Professor for Information Assurance for his work in cybersecurity.
Professor Rappaport and team from ALERT win top prize in the 2012 National Security Innovation Competition.
A group of ECE graduates and professors from ALERT won the top prize of $10,000 for their entry of “Next Generation Millimeter-Wave Body Imaging for Concealed Threat Detection” in the 2012 National Security Innovation Competition.
Professor Brad Lehman has been appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
Professor Brad Lehman has been appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, starting 2013 for a 3 year appointment. This is ranked 8th in impact factor among all the > 120 IEEE journals. It is quite a prestigious and high profile position.
Khabat Ebnabbasi, graduate student in electrical engineering, selected to receive the highly competitive IEEE Microwave Theory & Techniques Society Graduate Fellowship award
Khabat Ebnabbasi, graduate student in electrical engineering, was selected to receive the highly competitive IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Graduate Fellowship award. Only six such fellowships are awarded worldwide. The Graduate Fellowship program was established to recognize and provide financial assistance to graduate students who show promise and interest in pursuing a graduate degree in microwave engineering. The award consists of a check for $6,000 and a certificate of recognition from the society and is presented during the IMS2012.
He was awarded for the experimentally converse Magnetoelectric effect invention in magnetic materials which will impact greatly the next generation of RF and microwave magnetic devices. He is currently working toward the PhD degree under Prof. Vittoria's supervision.
Assistant Professor Matteo Rinaldi selected as a DARPA Young Faculty Awardee Class of 2012. The total amount of the award is $300,000 for a 2 years duration.
"The objective of the DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) program is to identify and engage rising research stars in junior faculty positions at U.S. academic institutions and expose them to Department of Defense needs as well as DARPA’s program development process. YFA combines funding, mentoring and networking with industry and DoD early in a recipient’s career to help them in framing future research in the context of defense needs. The long-term goal of the YFA program is to develop the next generation of academic scientists, engineers and mathematicians in key disciplines who will focus a significant portion of their career on DoD and national security issues.
In 2011 out of 407 applicants, 39 of the nation’s brightest young scientists were selected to receive grants totaling $11.7M under the 2011 DARPA Young Facility Award (YFA) program. (The statistics for 2012 is not available yet)".
For more information about DARPA Young Faculty Award. Please click here to be redirected to their site
Northeastern, MathWorks partner to open new lab on campus
A new engineering lab at Northeastern University will be home to the next developments in high-tech simulation and advanced computing. The MathWorks Systems Modeling and Radio Technology (SMART) Laboratory officially opened this week at the Egan Engineering Science Research Center, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday afternoon.
The MathWorks SMART Lab provides support for Professor Miriam Leeser, Assistant Professor's Kaushik Chowdhury and Gunar Schirner from ECE, among others at the University.
Osso Vahabzadeh has won the 2011-12 Outstanding Graduate Student
Osso Vahabzadeh has won the 2011-12 Outstanding Graduate Student “Teaching Award in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering “ co-sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Graduate Student Government.
Professor Brad Lehman has been selected by the Princeton Review to the best 300 professors list
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Assistant Professor William Robertson speaks at congressional briefing on cybersecurity last month in Washington.
Recently numerous alumni from over 50 years gathered for a ski trip
Recently numerous alumni from over 50 years gathered for a ski trip. Many Thanks to Professor DiMarzio for providing a picture from that fun filled day on the slopes.
1. Tristan Swedish, 2013 (Also on the ski team, he set the pace) 2. Jason Kellicker, BS 2006, MS 2010, Ph.D. in Progress 3. Joe Robinson, 2015 (Just won best undergrad Eng/Tech poster at RISE) 4. Dick Anderson, 1966 (at NStar) 5. Chris Carr, 2005 (at NStar) 6. Chuck DiMarzio, Ph.D. 1996.
Professor Vince Harris has been named a Scholar of the Senior Fulbright Specialist Program for 2012-2017.
"The Fulbright Specialist Program (FSP) promotes linkages between U.S. academics and professionals and their counterparts at host institutions overseas. The program is designed to award grants to qualified U.S. faculty and professionals, in select disciplines, to engage in short-term collaborative 2 to 6 week projects at host institutions in over 100 countries worldwide."
Professor Vincent Harris has been identified to be in the top 1% of the world's most cited scientists from 2000-2010
Professor Vincent Harris has been identified to be in the top 1% of the world's most cited scientists from 2000-2010. His top 50 papers have been cited on average more than 44 times each.
The source of the source of the top 1% is from "Citation Thresholds". Science Watch. May 1, 2010. Retrieved 13 May 2010. For more information about Professor Vincent Harris please click here
Professor Vince Harris elevated to Fellow of the IET
Congratulations to Professor Vince Harris who was elevated to Fellow of the IET.
Professor Fabrizio Lombardi has been elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society
Fabrizio Lombardi, the International Test Conference Professor in the ECE Department at Northeastern University has been elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society. He was one of the seven candidates who received the most votes and will assume his seat on the Board starting in January 2012 for a three-year term.
The IEEE Computer Society is governed by the Board of Governors. The franchised members of the Board are the president, president-elect, first and second vice presidents, the immediate past president, and twenty-one elected members of the board. Board members are elected to overlapping three-year terms, with seven members elected annually.
With nearly 85,000 members, the IEEE Computer Society is the world's leading organization of computing professionals. Founded in 1946, and the largest of the 38 societies of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Computer Society is dedicated to advancing the theory and application of computer and information-processing technology, and is known globally for its computing standards activities. For more information, go to http://www.computer.org.
Professor Silevitch and co-workers receive I-Corps grant from NSF
Prof. Silevitch and co-workers receive I-Corps grant from NSF. 1158744 I-Corps: MySkinTone: A breakthrough technology and product for skin melanin evaluation
Professor Engin Kirda receives a 40K gift from Symantec Corp
Symantec Corporation hereby contributes an irrevocable gift to Professor Engin Kirda at Northeastern University, the sum of $40,000 (Forty thousand dollars), in support of his work on the topic of a security-teaching platform that will be shared with Northeastern University peers.
ECE Professor's and Supporting DHS Research Highlighted in the Boston Globe
ECE Professor's Octavia Camps, Vincent Harris, Mario Sznaier, and supporting Department of Homeland Security research were highlighted in the October 9th, 2011 Boston Globe.
Professor Vince Harris & Professor Laura Lewis team up with other Universities & receive 4.2 M in funding
Virginia Commonwealth University, teaming with Northeastern University, University of California at San Diego and Brookhaven National Laboratory, received $4.2 M funding from the Department of Energy ARPA-E to develop rare earth - free magnetic materials for advanced alternative energy technologies.
Professor Vince Harris and Professor Laura Lewis receive the ARPA-E MURI award
A Northeastern University-led research team received $3.44 M funding from the Department of Energy ARPA-E to develop clean technology and advance alternative energy in the U.S. The Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies for Energy (REACT) Program will fund research to develop ultrastrong permanent magnets without rare-earth elements. Partners are Arnold Magnetic Technologies, G. M. R. & D., U. Mass-Amherst, Columbia University and U. Nebraska - Lincoln. NU PIs: Profs. Laura Henderson Lewis (PI) & Vince Harris (Co-PI)
Associate Professor Edmund Yeh is researching solutions to global challenges
Edmund Yeh, a new associate professor in College of Engineering, is researching solutions to global challenges in areas such as cyber security and smart power grids. Click here for more information
Professor Carey Rappaport receives the ERC-Small Business award
Professor Carey Rappaport receives the ERC-Small Business award with below details:
The National Science Foundation awards a grant of $200,000 to Northeastern University for support of the project entitled "ERC - Small Business: Walking Robot Based Ground Penetrating Radar Sensor for Mine and IED Detection," under the direction of Carey M. Rappaport, Jose A. Martinez-Lorenzo. This award is effective September 15, 2011 and expires August 31, 2013
Assistant Professor Kaushik Chowdhury & Associate Professor Stefano Basagni were awarded an $170K NSF Grant
Assistant Professor Kaushik Chowdhury and Associate Professor Stefano Basagni from the ECE department received an NSF award- PC3: Collaborative Research: GENIUS: Green Sensor Networks for Air Quality Support for designing long-lived sensor networks equipped with wake-up radio technology for pollution monitoring.
The total funding for the award is $299,995, and Northeastern's share is $171,153. The other US partner is the University of Rochester. This project involves a collaboration with IIT-Delhi and IIT-Hyderabad in India, and includes student and faculty exchanges, joint research publications and summer schools.
Associate Professor Engin Kirda received a 3 year NSF – CNS grant on cyber security
Associate Professor Engin Kirda received a 3 year NSF –CNS grant on cyber security, entitled “Automatically Identifying Botnet Command and Control Infrastructures”.
Professor Miriam Leeser, PhD student, Nicholas Moore and colleague won best paper award at SAAHPC
Professor Miriam Leeser, PhD student, Nicholas Moore and a colleague from Holy Cross, Laurie Smith King won best paper award at SAAHPC: Symposium on Application Accelerators in High Performance Computing.
Professor Dagmar Sternad's MFSR Study Section Membership
Professor Dagmar Sternad is being appointed to the Motor Function, Speech and Rehabilitation Study Section at the Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health.
Professor Vince Harris article published in J. Appl. Phys D named most popular of 2010
Editor of J. Appl. Phys. D announced that the paper "High coercivity cobalt carbide nanoparticles processed via polyol reaction: a new permanent magnet material" V G Harris et al J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 43 165003 was identified as 1 of 5 "most popular articles" of 2010.
" Vince Harris has been identified to be in the top 1% of the world's most cited scientists from 2000-2010. His top 50 papers of that period have been cited more than 44 times each on average."
"Citation Thresholds". Science Watch. May 1, 2010. Retrieved 13 May 2010. (Source of the top 1% most cited)
Professor Leeser a Keynote Speaker at HEART International Workshop
Professor Leeser gave a keynote about GPU programming at the International Workshop on Highly-Efficient Accelerators and Reconfigurable Technologies: HEART www.isheart.org
Professor Purnima Ratilal wins a multi-institutional award on Marine mammal detection and monitoring
Professor Purnima Ratilal wins a multi-institutional award on Marine mammal detection and monitoring, funded by the National Oceanographic Partnership Program.
Professor Vince Harris was selected as the 2011 Klein Lecturer
Professor Vince Harris was selected as the 2011 Klein Lecturer on the topic of: "Our Mysterious Magnetic Society: From the I-POD to Cancer Diagnostics and Remediation Therapies"
Thursday November 15th 2012
"The objective of the DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) program is to identify and engage rising research stars in junior faculty positions at U.S. academic institutions and expose them to Department of Defense needs as well as DARPA’s program development process. YFA combines funding, mentoring and networking with industry and DoD early in a recipient’s career to help them in framing future research in the context of defense needs. The long-term goal of the YFA program is to develop the next generation of academic scientists, engineers and mathematicians in key disciplines who will focus a significant portion of their career on DoD and national security issues.
