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Nov 13, 2026
Advances in Longer-Lasting Anode-Free, All-Solid-State Batteries
Research led by MIE Associate Professor Hongli Zhu is addressing a fundamental challenge in anode-free, all-solid-state batteries: protecting the limited lithium supply that keeps them working. Their findings on “Time-evolved hetero-alkali interphases enable long-life sulfide-based anode-free solid-state batteries” are published in Science Advances, a journal in the Science family.
Nov 10, 2026
Patent for Predicting Hard Disk Drive Failures Using Machine Learning and SMART Attributes
MIE Professor Sagar Kamarthi was awarded a patent for “Hard disk drive failure prediction method.”
Nov 05, 2026
Ergun Receives Best Transportation Science Paper Award
MIE Distinguished Professor Ozlem Ergun’s paper “Multimodal Transportation Pricing Alliance Design: Large-Scale Optimization for Rapid Gains,” written with Kayla Spring Reyes Kummerlowe, Vikrant Vaze, and Cynthia Barnhart was selected by the Transportation Science (INFORMS flagship journal on transportation and logistics) editorial board to receive the journal’s Paper of the Year Award for 2025 in Modes and Industries.
Oct 29, 2026
Sulfur Integration Unlocks Faster Ion Transport for Solid-State Sodium Batteries
Led by MIE Associate Professor Hongli Zhu, researchers published a new study in ACS Nano titled “Sulfur-Induced Local Structure Reconstruction and Fast Ion Transport in Solid-State Sodium Batteries,” which shows how sulfur incorporation changes the local structure of a solid electrolyte and helps sodium ions move more readily.
Oct 26, 2026
Zhu Featured on Cover of Experimental Mechanics
MIE Assistant Professor Juner Zhu’s research on “Core Collapse Instability of Spirally Wound Jelly-Roll Lithium-Ion Batteries” was featured on the cover of a special issue of “Recent Progress in Chemomechanics” of Experimental Mechanics.
Oct 26, 2026
Martagan Shares UN Sustainable Development Proposal
MIE Associate Professor Tugce Martagan presented a proposal for a future operations management research agenda at the United Nations General Assembly. Focusing on UN Sustainable Development Goal 3 (Good Health and Well-Being), the project titled “Health for All Through Outcome-Driven Research Across the Life Course” aims to improve health outcomes for vulnerable populations, including maternal, newborn, and elderly care.
Oct 26, 2026
Engineering Management Team Places Among Top Finishers at ASEM 2026 Virtual Case Competition
A team of Northeastern University MS in Engineering Management students tied for third place overall and placed second among graduate-level teams at the ASEM 2026 Virtual Case Competition, organized by the American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM).
Oct 15, 2026
2026 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations
The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2% of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines.