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AI Tool Instantly Assesses Self-Harm Risk
Professor Aggelos Katsaggelos and PhD student Shamal Shashi Lalvani are part of a team that produced a method to predict whether participants exhibited suicidal thoughts and behaviors.May 16, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
COVID-19 Pandemic Changed Attitudes toward Wearables
A study by computer engineering PhD candidate Stefany Cruz found that low-income Hispanic/Latine individuals have grown more receptive to health-monitoring technology.May 8, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Northwestern to Lead Midwestern Carbon-Capture Hub
With Professor Jennifer Dunn as the principal investigator and Professor Ted Sargent as a co-PI, the project has received nearly $4 million to test the feasibility of direct air capture technologies.May 8, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Lawrence Chillrud and Essien Taylor Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
The five-year fellowship is awarded to outstanding students pursuing a graduate degree in STEM.May 8, 2024
Advancing Control and Game Theory in the Midwest
Randy Freeman and Ermin Wei served as the co-organizers of the 10th Midwest Workshop on Control and Game Theory (MWCGT), hosted at Northwestern on April 27 – 28.May 7, 2024
Professor Ilya Mikhelson Honored with University Teaching Award
The five honorees demonstrate excellence in undergraduate teaching and were selected by a committee chaired by the provost and made up of senior faculty members, University administrators and a student representative.May 1, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
A Sharpened Focus for Seeing with Electricity
A new algorithm developed by Professor Matthew Grayson improves the quality of electrically measured tomographic images.May 1, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Father-Son Bonding
In the Kumars and the Chopps, Northwestern Engineering’s faculty roster includes two father-son duos.Apr 25, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Sheila Gujrathi, Grace Wang to Address 2024 Northwestern Engineering Graduates
On June 10, Gujrathi and Wang will speak at the McCormick Undergraduate Convocation and PhD Hooding and Master’s Degree Recognition Ceremony, respectively.Apr 23, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Researchers Take a Step Closer to Better, More Affordable Solar Cells
An innovative technique developed by a team with Professor Ted Sargent leads to perovskite-based solar cells with record-breaking efficiency.Apr 11, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Professor Emeritus Bruce Wessels Passes Away
Wessels will be remembered for his notable contributions to the study of thin films and nanostructures and passion for service and scholarship.Apr 10, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Advancing Quantum Leadership and Community
A founding member of the Quantum Economic Development Consortium, Northwestern hosted a plenary meeting March 20-21 and welcomed nearly 150 academic, corporate, and government stakeholders to the Technological Institute.Apr 4, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
New Magnetic Device Makes Microelectronic Chips More Sustainable
An invention by Professor Pedram Khalili makes it possible to read data from antiferromagnetic materials and could allow chips to work faster while fitting more data in a smaller space.Mar 19, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
New AI Tool Predicts COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake
Northwestern and University of Cincinnati researchers partner to build a novel machine learning model based in cognitive science.Mar 18, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
VLSI Lab Presents Three Papers at the ‘Chip Olympics’
Professor Jie Gu and members of his Very Large-Scale Integration Lab team presented three papers and a live demonstration on brain-machine-interface at the premier 2024 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference.Mar 8, 2024