Yousof Naderi
Assistant Research Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office
- 555A ISEC (Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Complex)
Research Focus
AI-powered Cyber-physical Systems, Intelligent Surfaces for 6G and Beyond, and Self-powered Networked Robotics
About
Yousof Naderi is a Research Assistant Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Northeastern University, Boston, and a member of the GENESYS Lab and the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things. He is a technology entrepreneur, innovator, and his interest lies in the intersection of research and commercialization in the areas of AI-powered cyber-physical systems, intelligent surfaces, and self-powered networked robotics. He has track record of building and leveraging successful strategic and synergetic partnerships with academia and industry. He received his Ph.D. from Northeastern University in December 2015.
Yousof is the recipient of the NEU Ph.D. dissertation fellowship in 2015, a finalist in the Bell Labs Prize competition in 2017, best paper awards at IEEE GLOBECOM 2019 and INFOCOM 2018, and Acorn Innovation award 2021. He has co-authored numerous scientific journals, book chapters, conference papers, and US patents. He has an organizing role in community building on software-defined radios such as organizing member of New England Workshop on Software Defined Radio (NEWSDR) 2017-2021. He has served as chair, TPC member, and reviewer of several conferences, and journals. His co-founded company DeepCharge Inc. has received early investment from the Ideaship fund consists of US Panasonic IP and GTT group, selected for Creative Destruction Lab accelerator at NYU Stern School of Business in 2019, received NEU prestige GapFund360 awards in 2019/phase I and 2020/phase II, and has been the finalist of MassChallenge 2021.
Research Overview
AI-powered Cyber-physical Systems, Intelligent Surfaces for 6G and Beyond, and Self-powered Networked Robotics
Research Centers and Institutes
Nov 18, 2022
COE Researchers Honored at Annual BPLA Invented Here!
The Boston Patent Law Association (BPLA) hosted its annual Invented Here! contest and honored COE inventors who help further innovation not only in our region but worldwide.
Nov 04, 2022
Wireless Charging of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
ECE Research Assistant Professor Yousof Naderi and Professor Kaushik Chowdhury were awarded a patent for “Wireless charging of unmanned aerial vehicles.”
Jul 22, 2022
Six Engineering Spinouts Selected as Eddies Finalists
Six spinout companies that were created by engineering faculty have been selected as finalists for the Massachusetts Innovation Network’s innovation competition, The Eddies. Every year, the Massachusetts Innovation Network hosts its signature innovation competition, The Eddies. The Eddies (formerly known as NE Innovation Awards) is the oldest and longest running innovation competition in New England. […]
Jun 28, 2022
Two Patents Issued for Naderi & Chowdhury Innovation
ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury and Research Assistant Professor Yousof Naderi were awarded patents for “Encoding and decoding data in communication frames of a communications protocol” and “Distributed wireless charging system and method.”
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 charger to lose, forget, mix up with a different charger, or simply forget to plug in. But what if charging took up no more thought […]
May 10, 2022
NU Startup ‘DeepCharge’ Featured on Forbes
DeepCharge, founded by ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury and Research Assistant Professor Yousof Naderi, was featured in the Forbes article “DeepCharge Develops Universal Wireless Charging“. It was also featured in Nov. 22 Forbes article “DeepCharge Universal Wireless Charging to Aid Sustainability.” DeepCharge is a NU startup and part of the accelerator program at the Roux Institute.
Aug 03, 2021
2021 Acorn Innovation Awards
ECE Research Assistant Professor Yousof Naderi, Professor Kaushik Chowdhury, Assistant Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava, and ChE Assistant Professor Benjamin Woolston received Acorn Innovation Fund Awards which help in the commercialization of scientific breakthroughs in Massachusetts.
Oct 08, 2020
Transferring Energy Wirelessly to Power Devices
ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury and Research Assistant Professor Yousof Naderi were awarded a patent for “Distributed wireless charging system and method.”
Jan 30, 2020
Eight COE Projects Selected for GapFund360
Northeastern’s GapFund360 program helps Northeastern’s researchers bridge the gap between promising lab results and demonstrating a commercially viable prototype. Awards range from $50K -$100K. Nine projects were selected from a pool of 39 applications from across the university; COE contributed 25 of the applications and seven projects were selected for funding. Congratulations to the following COE researchers whose projects were selected for Phase I or Phase II GapFund360 funding: ChE Assistant Professor Sidi Bencherif, MIE Assistant Professor Safa Jamali, ECE Assistant Professor Sarah Ostadabbas, ChE/COS Associate Professor Carolyn Lee-Parsons, ECE Professor Tommaso Melodia, ECE Associate Research Scientist Salvatore D’Oro, ECE Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury, ECE Principal Research Scientist Yousof Naderi, ECE Postdoc Ufuk Muncuk, ECE Professor Vincent Harris, ECE Associate Research Scientist Parisa Andalib, ECE Associate Professor Matteo Rinaldi, and ECE Research Assistant Professor Zhenyun Qian.
Dec 17, 2019
ECE Receives Best Paper Award at IEEE GLOBECOM
ECE PhD students Kai Li, Ufuk Muncuk, Principal Research Scientist Yousof Naderi, and Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury were awarded the best paper award at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2019 conference for their paper “SoftSense: Collaborative Surface-based Object Sensing and Tracking Using Networked Coils”.