"GME: GPU-based Microarchitectural Extentensions to Accelerate Homomorphic Encryption," which was published in the proceedings of the 56th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture was selected by the 2024 Top Picks Committee as a top paper published in Hardware and Embedded Security in 2024. This was a multi-institutional effort led by Northeastern PhD Kaustubh Shividkar, and invovled two undergraduate students (Michael Shen and Alexander Ingare), as well as researchers from BU, KAIST, and University of Murcia. This work was supported by our NSF IUCRC CHEST Center, and by an NSF CSR Medium Grant

It is my great pleasure to report that the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University continued its march to greater heights in 2022-2023. Our faculty were awarded over $45 million in research grants. This year, Professor Ali Abur was elected a Member of the National Academy of Engineering—a distinct honor we are all proud to announce. Dean Gregory Abowd was awarded the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) Lifetime Research Award. Prof. Kevin Fu became a Fellow of AAAS and ACM, Prof. Raymond Fu, Fellow of ACM, Prof. Vincent Harris, Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, and Associate Prof. Yongmin Liu became a Fellow of Optica and SPIE. This year also saw several of our assistant professors recognized through early-career awards.

We are delighted to celebrate our wonderful Class of 2023 URF Scholar Graduates. From Huntington Ave to Palo Alto, the River Thames to Timor-Leste, the Emerald Isle to Broadway, and all of the places in between, we are confident that our Huskies, shaped by their powerful Northeastern University educations, will continue making positive impacts around the world. We are proud to recognize all those who shared their time, intellect, and ambition with us and with one another through one of the many opportunities to extend their learning that our office provides — through our PEAK Experiences Award Program, participation in our Making a Graduate School Plan Workshop, or forwarding an application for any one of the distinguished fellowships. Thank you to the many who mentored these wonderful students during their time at Northeastern. Congratulations and good luck, Huskies!

Established in 1952, the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP) was created to support aspiring scientists and engineers pursuing graduate degrees and cutting-edge research in STEM fields. Each year, more than 12,000 graduate and undergraduate students apply for the NSF-GRFP. The benefits of the award include generous financial support and participation in a network of distinguished alumni, more than 440 of whom are members of the National Academy of Sciences. This year, a record-breaking 23 Huskies were selected for this fellowship; another ten earned honorable mentions. Congratulations to all of our undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni who earned fellowships and honorable mentions!

Northeastern celebrated the highest achievements of students and faculty at the 13th Annual Academic Honors Convocation in East Village on Thursday. A wide variety of achievements were highlighted, including two new faculty awards that recognized the university’s global commitment while emphasizing the theme of the day. “We have been the only university that I know of that has built the global university system—the only university that is allowing our students to roam,” Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun said in his closing remarks. “The end-game is leadership and impact. You have demonstrated leadership in your fields. And you have demonstrated impact. So you are the role models and from now on this is what we’re all about: Impacting the world, being engaged with the world and trying to make it a better world.”

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) offers the Capstone Design senior level course, which is mandatory for all students. This two semester long course is one of the most challenging, exciting, and successful programs on campus. A number of industrial partners, research institutions, business school in connection to the entrepreneurship program, as well as many other internal and external sources are involved with this course.

The 2023 members of Northeastern University’s “Huntington 100,” a group of students selected for their outstanding achievements locally and globally, included eighteen students from the College of Engineering. The Huntington 100 are nominated by faculty, staff, advisors, coaches, employers, and fellow students. Ke Wen Chemical Engineering/Biochemistry, E’22 Gillian Audia Chemical Engineering/Biochemistry, E’23 Barkha Bhavsar Chemical […]

Congratulations to the current students and alumni who are recipients of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Awards. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science. Name Baccalaureate Institution Current Field of Study Current Institution Award Offered Attari, Adel Wael (ChE E’19) Northeastern University Life Sciences – Cell […]

This summer, Undergraduate Research and Fellowships is proud to support students from across the disciplines as they seek to approach and address today’s big questions through the PEAK Experiences Awards. Working alongside dedicated mentors on projects ranging from creating an archive of the nation’s first rural settlement house in Appalachia to bioprinting brain material to building better underwater robots to understanding contemporary philosophies of risk, our Huskies are poised to create, discover, and make big impacts. Congratulations to our wonderful students and thank you mentors.

RISE is the showcase for research and creative projects being undertaken by everyone at Northeastern: learners from every year of study, every major, every campus, as well as faculty and staff. Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to share work that will be presented live as a poster talk on RISE day, while faculty and staff can share published work on a Faculty and Staff Works Table. See the presenters tab for more particulars!