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Jul 20, 2023
Enhancing Antenna Defense and Interference Control Using Smart Metamaterials
Vincent Harris, University Distinguished and William Lincoln Smith Professor, electrical and computer engineering, was awarded a patent for “Magnetodielectric metamaterials and articles including magnetodielectric metamaterials.”

Jul 20, 2023
Advanced Electrochemical Sensors for Early Disease Detection
ECE Professor Nian X. Sun and ChE Associate Teaching Professor Adam Ekenseair were awarded a patent for “Molecularly-imprinted electrochemical sensors.”

Jul 14, 2023
NSF CAREER Award To Enhance the Security of Machine Learning Hardware Accelerators
ECE Assistant Professor Xiaolin Xu was awarded a $600,000 NSF CAREER Award for “Securing Reconfigurable Hardware Accelerator for Machine Learning: Threats and Defenses.”

Jul 14, 2023
Improving Efficiency of Data-Centric Computing
ECE Professor Edmund Yeh was awarded a patent for “Network and method for servicing a computation request.”

Jul 06, 2023
$1.2M NSF Award for Making AI More Secure With Privacy-Preserving ML
ECE Assistant Professor Xiaolin Xu, in collaboration with Wujie Wen from Lehigh University and Caiwen Ding from the University of Connecticut, was awarded a $1.2 million NSF grant for “Accelerating Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning as a Service: From Algorithm to Hardware.”

Jul 06, 2023
New Faculty Spotlight: David Horsley
David Horsley joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in July 2023 as a Professor in Oakland, CA.

Jul 06, 2023
Northeastern University launches O-RAN OTIC, Pioneering Capabilities for Next-Generation Cellular Networks in the Open6G Hub
The Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things (WIoT) established an Open Testing and Integration Center (OTIC) in Burlington, MA, to promote research, development, and testing of next-generation Open Radio Access Networks (Open RAN).

Jul 03, 2023
Finding Inspiration From Nature To Create the Multi-Modal Mobility Morphobot (M4)
ECE Assistant Professor Alireza Ramezani’s research on “Multi-Modal Mobility Morphobot (M4) With Appendage Repurposing for Locomotion Plasticity Enhancement” was published in Nature Communications.