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‘Nobody Thought It Was Possible’: Quantum Teleportation Is Here
BBC Science Focus wrote about Professor Prem Kumar’s breakthrough in quantum physics that could pave the way to achieving a quantum InternetDec 23, 2024|from BBC Science Focus
First Demonstration of Quantum Teleportation over Busy Internet Cables
Professor Prem Kumar and his team successfully transmitted quantum information through a fiberoptic cable carrying high-speed Internet traffic.Dec 20, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Visiting PhD Student Wins Best Student Paper Award at 2024 IEEE ICIP Conference
In joint work with Professor Aggelos Katsaggelos, visiting PhD student Francisco Castro-Macías introduced a probabilistic approach to address the challenging problem of image artifact deblurring.Dec 18, 2024
Microcontroller System Design Students Demo Final Projects
Students expressed creativity and ingenuity in the design of practical, microcontroller-based embedded systems for their final course projects.Dec 17, 2024
Sanjay Sood Shares Leadership Lessons and Life Insights with Graduates
Sood spoke at the December 14 PhD Hooding and Master’s Degree Recognition Ceremony, recalling the lessons he’s learned during his career.Dec 16, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Espinosa, Sargent Named to National Academy of Inventors
Professors Horacio Espinosa and Ted Sargent are among 170 new fellows in the 2024 class who attained the highest professional distinction awarded solely to academic inventors.Dec 10, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Improving Acoustic and Bone Conduction Speech Enhancement
Professor Stephen Xia and his team developed an audio super-resolution model that enhances speech signals using neural networks.Dec 2, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Sanjay Sood to Speak at PhD Hooding and Master’s Degree Recognition Ceremony
Sood, senior vice president and chief technology officer at CDW, will speak to graduates and their families during a ceremony on December 14 at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall.Nov 25, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells Tripled with Protective Coating
Coated cells developed by a team of Northwestern researchers also delivered a solar power conversion efficiency of 26 percent.Nov 22, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
McCormick Faculty Named Among Global ‘Highly Cited Researchers’ for 2024
The list from analytics company Clarivate identifies researchers who showed significant influence by publishing highly cited papers.Nov 20, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
PhD Student Payal Mohapatra Selected for EECS Rising Stars Workshop
Payal Mohapatra, a PhD candidate in computer engineering, was one of 70 invited participants in the intensive workshop designed for graduate students and postdocs of historically marginalized or underrepresented genders.Nov 11, 2024
PhD Students Win Best Student Paper Award at 2024 WiOpt Conference
In joint work with Professor Randy Berry and Professor Igor Kadota, Kangle (Phil) Mu and Zongyun Xie examined mechanisms for spectrum sharing to accommodate the increasing demand for wireless services.Nov 11, 2024
Northwestern Partners with Material Impact to Accelerate Tech Commercialization
The partnership will help move research from the lab to the market.Oct 30, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Improving the Occupational Health of Manufacturing Workers
Led by Professors Ping Guo and Qi Zhu, an interdisciplinary engineering team developed a wearable multimodal sensor system that leverages machine-learning to enable near-real-time fatigue prediction on the factory floor.Oct 30, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Snow Tseng (Ph.D. 05') Co-chaired the 2024 Gordon Research Conference: Optics and Photonics in Medicine and Biology
Snow Tseng (PhD 05') Co-chaired the 2024 Gordon Research Conference: Optics and Photonics in Medicine & Biology.Oct 29, 2024