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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
John A. “Mac” McQuown, Northwestern Alumni Medalist and Benefactor, Dies at 90
An entrepreneur, financial innovator, and philanthropist, McQuown made an impact on sustainability, environmentalism and engineering research.Oct 25, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
VLSI Lab Wins ISLPED Design Contest Award
Professor Jie Gu and members of his Very Large-Scale Integration Lab team won the Design Contest Award at the premier ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design.Oct 21, 2024
Fall Tech Career Fair Welcomes More than 40 Companies
More than one thousand undergraduate and graduate students in computer science, electrical engineering, computer engineering, data science, machine learning, and related disciplines met with recruiters from more than 40 companies at the 2024 Fall Tech Career Fair.Oct 11, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Lessons from the PhD Journey of Professor Nivedita Arora
Professor Nivedita Arora shared lessons learned from her six-year journey earning a PhD in computer science at the Georgia Institute of Technology.Sep 24, 2024|from ACM-W Connections Newsletter
Mahdi Hosseini Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award
Hosseini’s Quantum Atom Optics research group aims to pioneer a fundamentally new technique in controlling and reading information from sensors.Sep 20, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Northwestern to Lead $20 Million National AI Research Institute in Astronomy
With Professor Aggelos Katsaggelos as co-principal investigator, the SkAI Institute will develop AI tools and accelerate astronomy’s data-driven revolution.Sep 18, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
hls4ml Summer School Offers Students Training in Edge-AI Hardware Accelerators
Professor Seda Ogrenci organized a hands-on summer school for students to explore her team’s open-source tool for designing machine learning inference in hardware using high level synthesis language.Sep 5, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Team with Pedram Khalili Launches New Center with $14.4M DOE Grant
Khalili and a multidisciplinary team aim to improve energy efficiency in microelectronics via magnonics.Sep 5, 2024
Emerging Technologies through Engineering the Sub-Atomic Quantum World
The IQ-PARC Quantum Summer School event introduced STEM students to fundamental quantum concepts, quantum technologies, cutting-edge research areas, and related job opportunities.Aug 26, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News