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Jul 24, 2025
Advancing Health Research While Safeguarding Genetic Privacy
MIE Assistant Professor Xubo Yue, in collaboration with Brown University, has received a $1M NSF grant for the project titled “SCH: Protecting Privacy and Promoting Fairness in Advanced Genomic Research using Federated Learning.” This project represents a significant step forward in advancing federated learning for large-scale, privacy-preserving analysis of biological data across multiple institutions – enabling collaboration without the need for data sharing.
Jul 23, 2025
Akcay and Martagan received 2025 EURO Award
MIE Associate Professors Alp Akcay and Tugce Martagan were awarded the 2025 EURO Award for the Best EJOR Paper. This award recognizes the most outstanding paper published in the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR), one of the leading journals in the field of operations research and decision sciences.
Jul 23, 2025
Seba’s Short-Tailed Bat Displays Distinctive Wing-Bone Morphological and Material Properties
Bioengineering alumni Xiaoxiang Ma, MS’23, and MIE/BioE Professor Sandra Shefelbine, published their research on “A proximodistal gradient in bone structure and mechanics in the wings of Seba’s short-tailed bat, Carollia perspicillata” in The Anatomical Record.
Jul 22, 2025
New Innovative App That Tracks Seizures
Muskaan “Mukki” Gill, E’25, mechanical engineering and history, developed an app that helps individuals to track and manage their seizures. Gill came up with this idea after witnessing her brother’s struggle with recurring seizures.
Jul 17, 2025
Fall 2025 AJC Merit Research Scholars
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Northeastern’s AJC Merit Research Scholarship, which will fund a co-op in the laboratory of a Northeastern University STEM faculty member.
Jul 15, 2025
Patent for a Solar Device That Makes Fresh Water
MIE Associate Professor Yi Zheng was awarded a patent for “Photothermal evaporator for a desalination system and method of manufacture.”
Jul 15, 2025
Innovative Heat-Conductive Plastic Prevents Overheating of Electronics
MIE Professor Randall Erb and Daniel Braconnier, PhD’23, mechanical engineering, give insight into their research and development of a lightweight plastic-ceramic composite that can conduct heat and can be used to cool down advanced electronics.
Jul 02, 2025
Developing Data-Enabled Methods for Material Characterization and Design
MIE Assistant Professor Juner Zhu and Research Scientist Wei Li were awarded a $500,000 NSF three-year grant for “Mechanics Informatics for Learning Constitutive Models: Theory, Computation, and Uncertainty Quantification.”