News and Announcements

Congratulation Professor Ratilal and Duong Tran

Congratulation 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)

In this grant, coPIs Erdogmus & Patel will develop a brain interface controlled icon-based language generation system that aims to increase speed of communication for persons with severe motor and speech disabilities. The project will focus on both engineering aspects of brain computer interfacing and on language and usability aspects of the icon-based text generation mechanism.

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

Prof. David Kaeli, along with Professors Purcella and Agnes from CCIS receive a 4 year NSF Scholarship for Service Award to prepare students in Information Assurance technologies.

MULTI-DISCIPLINARY PREPARATION OF NEXT GENERATION INFORMATION ASSURANCE
PRACTITIONERS

There is a growing need to prepare qualified professionals for careers in Information Assurance technologies to protect our national cyber infrastructure. To address this need, Northeastern University will develop a pipeline of IA professionals by providing scholarships to talented students over a span of four years, with a yearly cohort of 6 to 8 students.

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

Congratulation to all CDSP students that participated in the 20^th annual workshop. More....

Congratulations Yogesh Patel

Yogesh Patel won the "best poster" award at the National Science Foundation 2009 IGERT Principal Investigators Meeting this past weekend, in Washington DC. Yogesh received a $3000 travel award. His poster was entitled "Applications of Nanoparticles in Dermatology." More...

Congratulations ECE Students

ECE MS student Dana Schaa will present his paper titled:" Exploring the Multi-GPU Design Space" which was selected for the Best Paper Plenary Session at the 2009 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium in Rome, Italy May 27, 2009.

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

Professor Fabrizio Lombardi is elected a Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to: “testing and fault tolerance of digital systems”.

The grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in the profession and shall be conferred by the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The accomplishments that are being honored shall have contributed importantly to the advancement or application of engineering, science and technology, bringing the realization of significant value to society.

IEEE CDC Award

Necmiye Ozay has been awarded the best student paper award at the 47 IEEE CDC
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.

This award recognizes excellence in a paper presented at the conference, whose
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

Dr. Mehdi Tahoori has been selected to receive the 2008 Computer Society Certificate of Appreciation "For serving as General CoChair of DBT 2007" This award is given once a year to recognize individuals whose outstanding services and contributions to TTTC programs and activities. This award consists of an award plaque.

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

Professor Mehdi Tahoori's work on computational biology appears as the Cover Research Article in the Special Issue of Science Signaling:

Publication..

"In our cross-disciplinary work, we have developed a novel technology that holds high promises for finding key molecules that contribute to human diseases, and for identification of critical targets in drug development. This discovery enables scientists to analyze large cellular molecular networks that contribute to the development of complex human disorders. With this novel approach it is possible to figure out which molecules contribute the most to the dysfunction of the system and development of the disease."

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