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National Academy of Inventors honors Northeastern innovators
“Northeastern’s National Academy of Inventors chapter honored electrical and computer engineering University Distinguished and William Lincoln Smith Professor Vincent Harris with the Innovation Impact Award; Justin Hayes, PhD’25, chemical engineering, with the Student Innovation Impact Award; and bioengineering assistant research professor Saeed Amal with the Emerging Visionary Award, for their significant contributions to innovation, particularly in AI-driven healthcare.”
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DARPA Award to revolutionize navigation systems
“Electrical and computer engineering associate professor Cristian Cassella (PI), professor Matteo Rinaldi, professor David Horsley, and assistant professor Benyamin Davaji were awarded a $2 million DARPA grant for ‘Enabling Higher Scale Factors in Gyroscopes Through soFt and LacAlized interface-States in microelectromecHanical resonators (FLASH).’ This project aims to develop a new microelectromechanical (MEMS) inertial sensor surpassing the material-limited performance of the existing counterparts by exploiting topological properties in thin-film piezoelectric metamaterials.”
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Patent for automated of drone swarm networks
“Electrical and computer engineering William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia and associate research professor Salvatore D’Oro were awarded a patent for ‘Software Defined Drone Network Control System.'”
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AI-powered drone networks
“Electrical and computer engineering William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia and associate research professor Salvatore D’Oro were awarded a patent for ‘Distributed Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for Software-Defined Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Network Control.'”
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Patents for experimental virtual reality methods
“Electrical and computer engineering affiliated faculty Eugene Tunik and Bouvé/electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Mathew Yarossi were awarded a patent for ‘Computer-Implemented Methods and Systems for Designing and Conducting Virtual Reality Experiments.'”
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Furth wins Exceptional Paper Award
“Civil and environmental engineering professor Peter Furth and his former student Milad Tahmasebi, PhD’24, civil engineering, won the Exceptional Paper Award at the 104th Annual Transportation Research Board Meeting for ‘Reducing Speeding by Removing Speeding Opportunities: Field Test of Safe Waves Traffic Signal Timing.'”
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Hajjar receives 2025 BSCES College Educator Award
“Civil and environmental engineering Professor Jerome Hajjar was selected to receive the 2025 BSCES College Educator Award from the Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers for contributions to the Northeastern University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and support of the students of Northeastern University.”
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Patent for efficient computation
“Electrical and computer engineering professor Edmund Yeh was awarded a patent for ‘Network and Method for Servicing a Computation Request.'”
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Patent for hybrid nanopore technology
“College of science and bioengineering professor Meni Wanunu received a patent for ‘Lipid-Free Anchoring of Thermophilic Bacteriophage G20c Portal Adapter Into Solid-State Nanopores.'”
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Hajjar receives 2025 William H. Wisely American Civil Engineer Award
“Civil and enviromental engineering professor Jerome Hajjar was selected to receive the 2025 William H. Wisely American Civil Engineer Award for his exceptional ‘leadership in advancing civil engineering education, computational analysis, experimental testing, field investigation and design of resilient and sustainable steel and composite steel/concrete buildings, bridges and infrastructure systems; regional simulation; structural stability; and earthquake engineering.'”
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Xu receives DAC Under-40 Innovators Award
“Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Xiaolin Xu was named a recipient of the 2025 IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) Under-40 Innovators Award. This prestigious honor recognizes up to five early-career researchers each year whose pioneering work is shaping the future of electronic design and automation—spanning emerging areas such as neuromorphic computing, biological systems, cybersecurity and cyber-physical systems.”
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Shrivastava receives DARPA director fellowship
“Electrical and computer engineering associate professor Aatmesh Shrivastava has been awarded the highly selective DARPA Director’s Fellowship Award. This elite recognition goes to top performers of DARPA’s Young Faculty Award program, which Shrivastava received previously for ‘Nano-Watt Power Machine-Learning Hardware Using Precision Analog Computing.’ This year, Shrivastava stood among only 12 recipients nationwide across all disciplines, underscoring his exceptional contributions to cutting-edge research.”
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“Mechanical and industrial engineering assistant professor Juner Zhu and research scientist Wei Li were awarded a $500,000 NSF three-year grant for ‘Mechanics Informatics for Learning Constitutive Models: Theory, Computation, and Uncertainty Quantification.'”
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Cassella receives EFTF Young Scientist Award
“Electrical and computer engineering associate professor Cristian Cassella is the recipient of the European Frequency and Time Forum (EFTF) Young Scientist Award ‘for his seminal research on metamaterials in RF microacoustics as well as for his pioneering contributions on long-range remote sensors and lower-noise frequency generators through parametric nonlinearities.’ The award is conferred in recognition of a personal contribution that demonstrated a high degree of initiative and creativity and led to already established or easily foreseeable outstanding advances in the field of time and frequency metrology.”
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Lustig recognized as senior member of National Academy of Inventors
“Chemical engineering Associate Professor Steve Lustig was selected as a National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Senior Member, a prestigious honor recognizing active faculty, scientists, and administrators from NAI Member Institutions who have demonstrated remarkable innovation-producing technologies that have made or aspire to make an impact on society’s welfare. The 2025 class of Senior Members will be celebrated during the Senior Member Induction Ceremony at NAI’s 14th Annual Conference taking place June 23-26th, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia.”
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Patent for ‘robotic aquaculture system and methods’
Professors Joseph Ayers, Mark Patterson, Jerome Hajjar, Milica Stojanovic and Amy Mueller were awarded a patent for “Robotic aquaculture system and methods.”
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Abur receives IEEE PES Charles Concordia Power Systems Engineering Award
Electrical and computer engineering university distinguished professor Ali Abur received the 2025 IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Charles Concordia Power Systems Engineering Award “for contributions to power system state and network model estimation.”
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Cassella receives patent for improving RF filtering
“Electrical and computer engineering associate professor Cristian Cassella was awarded a patent for ‘Two dimensional rod resonator for RF filtering.'”
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Patent combines drugs with immunotherapy for cancer treatment
“Bouvé/chemical engineering University Distinguished Professor Mansoor Amiji was awarded a patent for ‘Combination Taxoid Nanoemulsion With Immunotherapy in Cancer.'”
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Abowd receives ACM SIGCHI Special Recognition Award
“Gregory D. Abowd, dean of the College of Engineering and professor of electrical and computer engineering, received the Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI) Special Recognition Award ‘for his extraordinary ability to inspire and mentor individuals from diverse backgrounds and his commitment to fostering collaboration, creativity, and impact.’ … Awardees’ achievements will be celebrated at the ACM CHI 2025 conference in Yokohama, Japan in April 2025.”
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Stevenson selected to receive Young Investigator Award
Assistant professor of physics Paul Stevenson has been selected to receive an Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award “for a new project using quantum sensors to explore electron transport in biomolecules.”
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Mosallaei made Optica Fellow
“Electrical and computer engineering professor Hossein Mosallaei was selected as a Fellow of Optica (formerly OSA) for outstanding contributions in active and time-modulated optical nanoantennas and metasurfaces. Optica Fellows are chosen based on several factors, including outstanding contributions to research, business, education, engineering, and service to Optica and its community.”
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Annual award named for university distinguished professor of law
“To recognize the trailblazing career of University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities Patricia Williams, the Race and Private Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools has named an annual award in her honor. The Patricia J. Williams Award celebrates Williams’ role as a leading critical race theorist, feminist legal theorist and private law trailblazer.”
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NIH funds Ivanov’s proteome profiling
“Deep proteomic profiling of scarce biological and clinical samples is still a major challenge since no amplification techniques are available for proteins and proteoforms, and current state-of-the-art proteomic techniques based on conventional chromatography columns coupled with mass spectrometry provide suboptimal performance and sensitivity levels. In this study, based on our novel, currently unavailable on the market, chromatographic column technology, we plan to build a reliable, robust, thoroughly evaluated commercialization-ready prototype chromatography platform to enable ultrasensitive proteomic profiling and address the challenges of numerous clinical, academic, and industrial laboratories.”
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DoE funds Feiguin’s quantum materials research
“Our ultimate goal is to accelerate discovery in quantum materials at DOE-supported user facilities. We will meet this goal through three specific aims. Aim 1 — generating and confirming novel low-energy effective many-body models for quantum materials. … Aim 2 — accelerating model solutions for advanced non-perturbative computational methods — is creating new state-of-the-art computational approaches for solving these models. … Finally, aim 3 — creating end-to-end experiment and theory workflows — is laying the foundation for integrating Aims 1 and 2 into new scientific workflows for scattering experiments.”
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Shansky receives National Institute of Mental Health support to study brain development post-pregnancy
“Pregnancy is characterized by marked changes in circulating hormones that can induce long-lasting changes in the brain. The goal of this project is to determine how the hormone allopregnanolone may induce a robust neural inhibition in the medial prefrontal cortex during pregnancy, resulting in over-compensatory actions that persist well after birth. Our work will provide much-needed insight into the development of the brain post-pregnancy.”
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Levendis receives engineering communication award
“Mechanical and industrial engineering distinguished professor Yiannis Levendis is one of 15 collaborators who received the 2024 Jack Bono Award for Engineering Communication in the field of fire technology from the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) for their paper ‘The Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems in Outdoor Fire Fighting.’ This award recognizes authors who have made contributions to the advancement and application of professional fire protection engineering.”