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Nov 03, 2020
Startup Guardion Wins NASA Science Mission Directorate Challenge
MIE Professor Yung Joon Jung’s startup, Guardion, was one of six winners of the NASA Science Mission Directorate Challenge.

Nov 03, 2020
Understanding Biomechanical Changes in Heart Valves Following Pregnancy
MIE/BioE Associate Professor Rouzbeh Amini is researching “Multi-scale Assessment of Biomechanical Alterations in Tricuspid Valves Following Pregnancy” – a project awarded to him as an NSF CAREER Award in 2018.
Nov 03, 2020
Spurring Undergraduate Research with the UPLIFT Scholars Program
With a focus on experiential learning and research, the College of Engineering at Northeastern is offering a new undergraduate research program—the Undergraduate Program for Leaders In Future Transformation (UPLIFT). The […]

Nov 02, 2020
Effective Strategies to Disrupt Recruitment of Human Trafficking Victims
MIE Assistant Professor Kayse Lee Maass and CSSH Professor Amy Farrell are co-principal investigators of a $759K National Institute of Justice grant titled “Identification of Effective Strategies to Disrupt Recruitment of Victims in Human Trafficking: Qualitative Data, Systems Modeling, Survivors and Law Enforcement.”

Oct 22, 2020
Engineering Students published and presented at the 2020 ASEE-NE Virtual Conference
Engineering students, under the supervision of Teaching Professor Bala Maheswaran, published and presented five papers at the American Society of Engineering Education–Northeast Section Virtual Conference. The paper on “OSCILLUS: Harnessing Wave Energy” won first place.

Oct 07, 2020
Interfacing Photonics with Artificial Intelligence
MIE & ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu published an invited review article in Nature Photonics about deep learning for the design of photonic structures.

Oct 01, 2020
INFORMS Receives 2020 Student Chapter Award
The Northeastern University INFORMS student group has been selected as a winner of the 2020 INFORMS Student Chapter Annual Award at the Magna cum laude level for the second year in a row.

Sep 11, 2020
Evaluating the Security of the Medical Product Supply Chain
MIE Professor Ozlem Ergun will serve on a committee for the “Security of America’s Medical Product Supply Chain” established by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.