News and Announcements
Seniors win Prestigious NSF Fellowships
College of Engineering seniors Sarah Brown and Dana Peck have been awarded coveted Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation. The fellowship program recognizes and supports outstanding students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees at accredited U.S. institutions.
Please see the College Of Engineering website for more details:
http://www.coe.neu.edu/coe/undergraduate/awards/NSF-GRF_4-22-11.html
Professor Purnima Ratilal Paper is selected as the Spotlight Paper for June 2011
Professor Ratilal's paper is selected as the Spotlight Paper for the June 2011 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
Please see the journal's home page for more details:
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tpami
Professor Purnima Ratilal wins a multi-institutional award on Marine mammal detection and monitoring
Professor Purnima Ratilal wins a multi-institutional award on Marine mammal detection and monitoring, funded by the National Oceanographic Partnership Program.
Please see the website:
http://www.nopp.org/2011/nopp-names-marine-mammal-detection-and-monitoring-funding-award-winners/
Professor Vince Harris was selected as the 2011 Klein Lecturer
Professor Vince Harris was selected as the 2011 Klein Lecturer on the topic of: "Our Mysterious Magnetic Society: From the I-POD to Cancer Diagnostics and Remediation Therapies"
Professor Chuck DiMarzio receives College of Engineering Martin Essigman Outstanding Teaching Award !
Professor Chuck DiMarzio will be honored as one of the two Martin Essigman Outstanding Teaching Award recipients on March 10, 8:30-10:00 a.m. at the COE Awards Ceremony
Undergraduate student Emily Wiecek discovered a world of possibilities in Professor Sternad's lab.
Emily Wiecek, a Behavioral Neuroscience student, has spent 2 years in Professor Sternad's lab, first as volunteer, then Co-op student and after that under directed study. Emily was integrated into Professor Sternad's lab group and conducted experimental research on motor learning. The specific topic was analysis of variability in motor performance and how humans learn to suppress and channel noise to achieve accuracy in performance. She excelled with her work, on a par with other graduate students. She continued with a Co-op in a Harvard research lab and is currently applying for graduate school in Neuroscience. Her GPA is 4.0 and she is a Presidential Fellow.
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Prof. Ningfang Mi has received the IBM Faculty Award
Ningfang Mi has been selected to receive a 2010 IBM Faculty Award of $20K. Dr. Mi will collaborate with researchers at the IBM Research Center in order to develop dependence-based techniques to detect the changes in application demands and identify an incoming surge in flows of enterprise storage systems.
Prof. Leeser has been awarded a $50K grant from Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) as a subcontract from Mercury Federal Systems.
She will be using the Open Component Portability Infrastructure (OpenCPI) to implement applications on both Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). The first applications is k-means clustering, a technique frequently used in data mining.
Prof. Leeser will be an invited speaker at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) January 10 -14, 2011.
She will be attending a workshop on High Performance Computing and Emerging Architectures, a meeting of the top researchers on Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) from around the world. She will be giving a talk on "The Challenges of Writing Portable, Correct and High Performance Libraries for GPUs or How to Avoid the Heroics of GPU Programming".
For more information see http://www.ima.umn.edu/2010-2011/W1.10-14.11/
Graduate student Shujun Li, Prof. Kokar, & Prof. Brady win the best paper award at the Wireless Innovation Technical Conference.
The paper presented by Ph.D. student Shujun "Rachel" Li at the Wireless Innovation Technical Conference (SDR'10) in Washington, D.C. on December 1, 2010 titled "Collaborative Adaptation of Cognitive Radio Parameters Using Ontology and Policy Approach", authored by Shujun Li, Mieczyslaw Kokar, David Brady and Jakub Moskal has received the Best Paper Award.
The conference included 107 excellent papers devoted to Software Defined Radios and Cognitive Radios. This paper was in the "Best of R&D Track." There was only one other Best Paper Award in the Applications Track.
ECE Alumnus is appointed as the department chair at Rutgers.
Professor Athina Petropulu is appointed as the department chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Dr. Athina P. Petropulu received the M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1988 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1991 both from Northeastern University, Boston. She was a Professor at Drexel University from 1992 to 2010.
More details can be found in the following article at : http://www.ece.rutgers.edu
Congratulations to Professors Nian Sun, Vince Harris and their collaborators
ECE Professors Nian Sun, Vince Harris and their collaborators’ paper is selected as the 10 most outstanding full papers in the past ten years in Advanced Functional Materials, which is also the most-accessed full paper in 2009. This paper will be included in a retrospective edition of Advanced Functional Materials which will appear in November 2010 for celebrating 10 years publishing of this journal.
More details can be found in the following article at : materialsviews.com
Additional informational can also be found in the following PDF article at :
NU News
Prof. Deniz Erdogmus has received a collaborative NSF research grant
Deniz Erdogmus has received a collaborative research grant ($733.5K total, $155.5K for work to be performed at NU) from NSF to develop algorithms for automatic social behavior analysis in non-human primate groups using audiovisual measurements. In this project, Dr. Erdogmus will collaborate with researchers at the Oregon National Primate Research Center at the Oregon Health and Science University in order to develop statistical models for primate social behavior fusing information captured by microphone and camera arrays continuously over weeks.
Prof. Ratilal & her colleagues meet with Sen. Kerry & State officials
State officials were very interested in the OAWRS technology for sensing fish. They would like to help push this technology for regular fisheries survey at NOAA. Sen. Kerry wanted to know why the technology has not already been incorporated at NOAA. Prof. Ratilal and her colleagues explained what the issues were.
More details can be found in the following article in Gloucester Times: More ...
Professors Vittoria and Harris receive two NSF grants
Prof. Carmine Vittoria (PI) and Prof. Vince Harris were awarded an NSF grant for 500,000$ to investigate magnetoelectronic materials for next generation spintronic technologies.
Prof. Harris (PI) and Prof. Vittoria also were awarded an NSF grant for 419,000$ for the study of tunable passive electronics for next generation radar and communication platforms.
Congratulations Professor Hossein Mosallaei
Congratulations to Professor Hossein Mosallaei whos on a team that got the MURI award on Tunable Optical Metamaterials More...
Professor Carmine Vittoria's honorary session
Professor Carmine Vittoria was recognized for his "Seminal contributions to the field of microwave materials and commitment to excellence in Education" at the Honorary Session entitled: Journeys and Tribulations into Unchartered Grounds at the 2010 International Conference on Microwave Magnetics, June 1-4, 2010, Boston, MA..
Congratulation ECE Capstone Competition Winners
A team of four undergraduate students won the first place in this year's ECE Capstone Project Competition with their project on utilizing brain signals to navigate a mobile robot remotely. In this project, students Saumitro Dasgupta, Mike Fanton, Jonathan Pham, and Mike Willard worked with professors Deniz Erdogmus and Bahram Shafai to develop a brain interface based on signals called steady state visual evoked potentials (SSVEP) to control a robot by selecting commands on the operator's screen to be transmitted via a wireless connection. The operator screen consisted of checkerboard patterns flickering at different frequencies - specifically one checkerboard per command - and a real-time video feedback from the robot's point-of-view using a camera mounted on the robot. More ...
National Science Foundation Grant
The National Science Foundation awarded a grant of $248,400 to Northeastern University for support of the project entitled "REU Site: BIOSENSE - Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems for the Development of Biomedical Applications and Devices at Northeastern University,". The project will be carried out under the direction of Professors Michael B. Silevitch and David R. Kaeli.
Congratulations Professor Tadmor & Colleagues
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Stefano Basagni receives MRI grant with
Prof. G. Noubir, P. Desnoyers & M. Vona.
Title: MRI-R2/Dev.: Second-Generation Applications-Driven Wireless Sensor Networking Instrument
This project, developing a multi-purpose wireless sensor networking instrument, supports the specific experimental research needs of cross-layer protocols for heterogeneous sensor networks and key applications such as search and rescue by swarms of robots, buildings structure health monitoring, and hand and patient motion tracking. More...
Professor Mark Niedre receives R21 NIH Grant on:
"Tomographic In Vivo Flow Cytometer for Counting Rare Circulating Cells"
The goal of this project is to develop a highly novel instrument for the non-invasive detection and quantification of very rare circulating cells in live animals /in vivo/. The instrument will use a high-speed miniaturized tomographic ring to detect single fluorescently-labeled cells in circulation. The ring will be fitted around a limb and will allow sampling of the entire blood volume of a mouse in less than 10 minutes, offering unprecedented detection sensitivity. We anticipate that the system will have applications in many areas of biomedical research including /in vivo/ detection of metastatic tumor cells and circulating hematopoietic stem cells.
Medical & Biological Imaging
Curry Student Center Ballroom, Northeastern University's campus on Thursday, February 4, 2010 from 8:30AM - 4:30PM. Sponsored by The Office of the Vice Provost for Research. For more information please click on the links listed below.
Medical & Biological Research Exchange Flyer
Medical & Biological Research Exchange Schedule
(schedule subject to change)
21th Annual CDSP Research Conference
Curry Student Center Ballroom, Northeastern University's campus on Friday, March 26, 2010 from 9:00AM - 4:00PM. The workshop program and registration information is available at http://www.cdsp.neu.edu For further details contact: Joan Pratt j.pratt@neu.edu
2010 IEEE Fellows
Professor Dave Kaeli and Professor Milica Stojanovic are elevated to IEEE Fellow !
Each year, following a rigorous evaluation procedure, the IEEE Fellow Committee recommends a select group of recipients for one of the Institute's most prestigious honors, elevation to IEEE Fellow. Among this year's recipients are Professors David Kaeli and Milica Stojanovic.
Professor David Kaeli is elected a Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to "profile-guided optimization algorithms and dynamic branch prediction designs"
and
Professor Milica Stojanovic is elected a Fellow of the IEEE for her contributions to "underwater acoustic communications".
Congratulations to Professors David Kaeli and Milica Stojanovic for this prestigious honor!
Congratulations Professor Ratilal and Duong Tran
Congratulations to Professor Purnima Ratilal and graduate student Duong Tran who won a Best Student Paper in Acoustical Oceanography at the Spring 2009 Conference of Acoustical Society of America. The title of his paper was, "Atlantic herring low frequency target strength estimation from ocean acoustics waveguide remote sensing (OAWRS) date in the Gulf of Maine over 10 days of observation," presented at Spring 2009 ASA meeting in Portlan, Oregon 18-22 May 2009.
New COE/ECE Grant
Title: RSVP iconCHAT - A Brain Computer Interface for Icon-based Communication
PIs: Deniz Erdogmus (COE-ECE), Rupal Patel (Bouve-SLPA)
Featured Work
Professor Mehmet Dokmeci's work is featured on the cover of the recent issue of Nanotechnology. More...
Research Award
Professor Mark Niedre receives research award from the board of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, a quasipublic agency charged with implementing the state's life sciences initiative. The board awarded nearly $1.4 million in research grants to seven scientists whose research ranges from malaria to neural regeneration.
Recipients include Jeffrey Bailey of the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Christopher Gabel of Boston University Medical Center, Sun Hur of Children's Hospital, Raul Mostolovsky of Massachusetts General Hospital, Mark Niedre of Northeastern University, Konstantina Stankovic of Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, and Satoshi Yoshida of Brandeis University.
Related article from Boston Globe can be found at: Here...
Research Grant
In this project, Dr. Erdogmus will collaborate with researchers at OHSU (Portland, OR) to design a noninvasive brain computer interface using electroencephalography (EEG) to detect evoked response potentials in response to a rapid serial visual presentation of letters to the subject on a screen. The prototype system will be refined repeatedly over 5 years based on experimental data and feedback acquired from patients with locked-in syndrome (LIS).
NSF Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service Award
MULTI-DISCIPLINARY PREPARATION OF NEXT GENERATION INFORMATION ASSURANCE
PRACTITIONERS
Northeastern University has already established the infrastructure required to advance IA education and research; we are proposing an ambitious recruiting strategy to attract students to the SFS Scholarship Program. We will identify strong students to become participants in the SFS program that will build a more secure future federal government. We will also take steps to build a pipeline to our graduate programs in IA. We will devote special attention to work with HBCU and HSI colleges/universities, to attract and recruit under-represented students to the field of Information Assurance.
Congratulations CDSP Students
Congratulations to all CDSP students that participated in the 20th annual workshop. More....
Congratulations Yogesh Patel
Congratulations ECE Students
Computer Engineering PhD student Rodrigo Dominguez has research funding through Google's "Summer of Code" program to work on his project titled: "Improving the Open64 Backend for GPUs." This unique program sponsored by Google solicits proposals to contribute to open source projects.
Congratulations to New Inductees
On March 23, several electrical and computer engineering undergraduates were inducted in the Gamma Beta Chapter of Eta Kappa Nu, the national electrical and engineering honor society. The induction was held in 306 Egan by President David Reed, Vice President Glenn Black, and Secretary Katharine Toth.. More Info...
2008 Research Innovation Award
Prof. Edwin Marengo was named the 2008 most distinguished alumnus of the Technological University of Panama in the category of research, innovation, and technological development. The university granted 5 awards to the most distinguished alumni of the year, in 5 categories. Prof. Marengo was nominated among others by the university, and selected later by an independent panel of distinguished reviewers from other universities, industry, and the government in Panama.
New IEEE Fellow
IEEE CDC Award
for her paper "A sparsification approach to set membership identification of a class of affine hybrid systems", co-authored with M. Sznaier, C. Lagoa and O. Camps.
primary author is student. The IEEE Conference on Decision and Control is premier scientific and engineering conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of systems and control. It brings together an international community of researchers and practitioners to discuss new research results, perspectives on future developments, and innovative applications relevant to decision making, automatic control, and related areas. At this year's CDC, over 900 papers were presented, selected through a full peer review process from close to 2000 submissions.
2008 Computer Society Certificate of Appreciation
The award will be presented to Dr. Tahoori during VTS2009, 3-7 May in Santa Cruz, California. Additional details will be available at the VTS2009 website: http://www.tttc-vts.org/.
TTTC is the Test Technology Technical Council, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society.
Professor Mehdi Tahoori's Publication
The IEEE Control Systems Society
Announces the selection of Ms. Necmiye Ozay as one of four finalists for the 2008 Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) Best Student paper Award. The award is given an author who is the primary contributor to the paper, and who was a student at the time of the original submission. The paper is entitled “A Sparsification Approach to Set Membership Identification of a Class of Affine Hybrid Systems,” coauthored with Professors Mario Sznaier, Constantino Lagoa and Octavia Camps, The award is based on the paper’s originality, clarity, and potential impact on practical applications or theoretical foundations of control. The award will be presented at this year’s December CDC meeting.
Congratulations to Anton Geiler
During the Magnetism and Magnetic Materials conference last week, Anton Geiler won a best poster award for his M.Sc. thesis work on the PLD growth of epitaxial Ba-M type ferrite. There were approximately 4-5 awards chosen from about 500 posters. Congratulations Anton!
Congratulations to Professor John Proakis
At this year's European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), sponsored by EURASIP, the Athanasios Papoulis Award " for Outstanding Contributions to Education in the Signal Processing Discipline" was awarded to Professor John Proakis. This is a recently established award that was given for the first time. The Athanasios Papoulis Award is given to honour scientists whose work had a major impact in various aspects on Signal Processing education.
Congratulations to Professor Hossein Mosallaei
Professor Mosallaei is appointed as the Associate Editor for IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, effective from Jan. 08
Congratulations to Assistant Professors Purnima Ratilal and Nian Sun
Two Assistant Professors Dr. Purnima Ratilal and Dr. Nian Sun received the prestigious ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP) Awards for 2007