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May 26, 2026
Uncovering the Mystery Behind Physical AI
The term “physical AI”, coined by the CEO of NVIDIA, refers to any AI system that is designed to interact with its environment. Northeastern COE professors, through the Physical AI Research Initiative (PAIR), weigh in with their own knowledge and research on the concept, and where it may be headed.
May 26, 2026
Davaji Receives the Hilton Head Rising Star of Microsystems Award
ECE Assistant Professor Benyamin Davaji won the 2026 Hilton Head Rising Star of Microsystems Award, which recognizes outstanding early-career faculty who are emerging leaders in microsystems research and who have demonstrated strong potential for sustained technical impact and community leadership.
May 19, 2026
Patent for Brainwave Feedback Technology to Help Treat Anxiety and Depression
ECE Professor Sarah Ostadabbas has received a patent for “System and method for providing neurofeedback from steady-state visual evoked potentials to target affect-biased attention for treating therapeutic outcomes such as anxiety and depression.”
May 19, 2026
Patent for Compressing and Accelerating Mobile AI Models
ECE Professor Yanzhi Wang was awarded a patent for “Computer-implemented methods and systems for compressing recurrent neural network (RNN) models and accelerating RNN execution in mobile devices to achieve real-time inference.”
May 13, 2026
Building on Strength A Decade of Progress in Flexible Electronics
ECE Professor Ravinder Dahiya published an editorial titled “Building on strength: a decade of progress in flexible electronics” to mark the 10th anniversary of npj Flexible Electronics, in which he is one of the editors-in-chief.
May 07, 2026
Summer 2026 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of the Summer 2026 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
May 05, 2026
Closas to Serve as General Co-Chair at NAVICON 2026
ECE Associate Professor Pau Closas will serve as the general co-chair of the organizing committee for the inaugural IEEE Navigation Conference (NAVICON 2026), which will be held in Munich, Germany, from December 9 to 11, 2026.
May 05, 2026
New Guidelines Aim to Make Technology Research More Accessible and Easier to Verify
ECE Professor Miriam Leeser and her co-authors examine the evolution of research transparency in their editorial, “Artifact Evaluation in the FPGA Community and in ACM TRETS,” published in ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems.