News
Jul 03, 2023
Groundbreaking, Animal-Inspired Robot Rolls, Crawls and Flies Into the Future of Robotics
The multi-modal mobility morphobot (M4), designed by a team of researchers led by ECE Assistant Professor Alireza Ramezani, is a shape-shifting robot with eight modes of mobility inspired by animals, capable of seamlessly transitioning between crawling, flying, rotating, and using thrusters, with potential applications in space exploration, package delivery, and search and rescue operations.
Jun 30, 2023
Best Paper Award at ACM HPDC 2023
Baolin Li, PhD’24, computer engineering, and ECE Associate Professor Devesh Tiwari received the Karsten Schwan Best Paper Award at the 32nd ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC) for their paper on “Kairos: Building Cost-Efficient Machine Learning Inference Systems With Heterogeneous Cloud Resources.”
Jun 26, 2023
Explainable Anomaly Detection
ECE/Khoury Professor Yun Raymond Fu received a $540,000 Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) grant to address video anomaly detection through deep learning and perturbation techniques.
Jun 05, 2023
Who Has the Best Self-driving Car? Northeastern Robotics Team Captures First Place in Premier Competition
A robotics team led by ECE Assistant Professor Milad Siami won the Self-Driving Car Competition at the American Control Conference (ACC) 2023.
Jun 02, 2023
Best Student Paper Award at ACC 2023
Mohammad Alali, PhD’26, electrical engineering, received the Best Student Paper Award Finalist from the 2023 American Control Conference (ACC 2023) for his paper “Reinforcement Learning Data-Acquiring for Causal Inference of Regulatory Networks,” which was one of the five papers selected for this award.
Jun 01, 2023
Fu Appointed to PCAST Working Group
ECE/Khoury Professor Kevin Fu was appointed to the White House President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) Working Group to identify research areas and possible solutions, as well as, advance current approaches to bolstering cyber-physical resilience.
Jun 01, 2023
Fu Receives AAMI & MedCrypt Cybersecurity Visionary Award
ECE/Khoury Professor Kevin Fu received the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) & MedCrypt Cybersecurity Visionary Award for his groundbreaking research that demonstrated that implantable devices like pacemakers can be vulnerable to hackers and his efforts to mitigate these risks.
May 31, 2023
CNERT Workshop Best Paper Award
Zhaoyang Han, PhD’24, computer engineering, who is advised by ECE Professor Miriam Leeser, won the Computer and Networking Experimental Research using Testbeds (CNERT) Workshop Best Paper Award for their paper on “A Framework To Enable Runtime Programmable P4-enabled FPGAs in the Open Cloud Testbed” at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications.