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Oct 18, 2023
Testing Extremes of Human Motor Control To Advance Robotics
Dagmar Sternad, University Distinguished Professor of biology, physics, and ECE, and her research group at Northeastern’s Action Lab, including mechanical engineering PhD student Mahdiar Edraki, are looking at extreme human movement to understand how humans manipulate complex objects, like whips.
Oct 16, 2023
DARPA Young Faculty Award To Develop Ultra-Low Power Machine-Learning Hardware
ECE Associate Professor Aatmesh Shrivastava was awarded a Young Faculty Award from DARPA for up to $1 million for “Nano-Watt Power Machine-Learning Hardware Using Precision Analog Computing.”
Oct 12, 2023
Abowd Receives 10-Year UbiComp Impact Award
Gregory D. Abowd, dean of the College of Engineering and professor of ECE, was a recipient of the UbiComp 2023 10-Year Impact Award for his paper, “Instant Inkjet Circuits: Lab-based Inkjet Printing to Support Rapid Prototyping of UbiComp Devices,” that was published in 2013. The award is given to papers published at the conference 10 years ago that have been deemed the most impactful over time.
Oct 09, 2023
Ostadabbas Receives Sony Faculty Innovation Award
ECE Associate Professor Sarah Ostadabbas received the Sony Faculty Innovation Award for her project titled “Live Stream Temporally Embedded 3D Human Body Pose and Shape Estimation.” She is the first at Northeastern to receive this prestigious award.
Oct 03, 2023
Methods To Prevent Cyberattacks in Self-Driving Cars
ECE/Khoury Professor Kevin Fu is researching methods to prevent cyberattacks in self-driving cars caused by optical illusions.
Oct 02, 2023
From Classroom Project to Presented Paper
Electrical and computer engineering students Justin Kawakami, E’23, and Dominik Zajac, E’24, who both took the class EECE 4632 Hardware-Software Codesign for FPGA-Based Systems with Professor Miriam Leeser, turned one of their classroom projects into a paper that was presented at the IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference.
Sep 28, 2023
AI and Machine Learning Help Researchers Get Audio From Still Images and Silent Videos
ECE/Khoury Professor Kevin Fu developed a machine learning tool called Side Eye that can extract audio from pictures and even muted videos.
Sep 28, 2023
Patent for Detecting Arc Faults in Photovoltaic Systems
ECE Professor Bradley Lehman was awarded a patent for “Arc fault detection based on photovoltaic operating characteristics and extraction of pink noise behavior.”