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Nov 04, 2025
Advancing Innovation and Impact: Highlights from the Northeastern NAI Chapter Fall 2025 Event
MIE Professor Randall Erb and ChE Associate Professor Steve Lustig both participated in the annual meeting of Northeastern University’s National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Chapter to bring together innovators, researchers, and entrepreneurs.
Oct 31, 2025
Strategy for Inventors Placing Talent in Complex Innovation Networks
MIE Associate Professor Babak Heydari’s research on “Core or periphery: Examining where to allocate heterogeneous inventors and the impact on firms’ innovation” was published in the Strategic Management Journal.
Oct 31, 2025
Making Exoskeletons Safe Through Uncertainty
Research conducted by Fatima Mumtaza Tourk, PhD’27, mechanical engineering; Bishoy Galoaa, PhD’29, computer engineering; Sanat Shajan, COS’25; ECE/Khoury Assistant Professor Michael Everett; and Bouvé/MIE Assistant Professor Max Shepherd on “Uncertainty-Aware Ankle Exoskeleton Control” was published in Robotics.
Oct 31, 2025
Creating a Single Nanodevice That Displays a Record-High Number of Independent Images
Research conducted by MIE/ECE Professor Yongmin Liu on “Polarization-Encoded Lenticular Nano-Printing with Single-Layer Metasurfaces” was published in Advanced Functional Materials.
Oct 30, 2025
Advanced Science Frontispiece Features Research on Materials with Embodied Intelligence
Research conducted by MIE Postdoctoral Research Associate Richard Nash, Yunzheng Yang, PhD’27, and Associate Professor Yaning Li on “Adaptive Mechanical Metamaterials with On-Demand Binary Local Modulus for Embodied Intelligence” was featured on the frontspiece of Advanced Science.
Oct 29, 2025
Patent for Keeping Microchips Cool with Printed Nano-Arrays
University Distinguished and MIE William Lincoln Smith Professor Ahmed Busnaina was awarded a patent for “Printed micro and nanostructured arrays for thermal management of electronic devices.”
Oct 17, 2025
Two Northeastern Professors Recognized as Massachusetts AI Innovators
CEE/MES Professor Qin Jim Chen and DMSB/MIE Associate Professor Tucker Marion both won the Massachusetts AI Hub’s AI Models Innovation Challenge.
Oct 16, 2025
Engineering Management MS Student Wins ASEM Meritorious Service Award
Raghav Luthra, MS’25, engineering management and president of Northeastern University’s ASEM Student Chapter for the 2024–25 tenure, received the 2025 Meritorious Service Award – Outstanding Student Chapter President at the International Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM).