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New Spinning Drone Hides in Plain Sight
By exploiting the quirks of human vision, Professors Michael Rubenstein, Emma Alexander, and Sam Kriegman designed a drone that nearly disappears right before the eyes.Jul 16, 2026|from Northwestern Engineering News
Patients Demand More from AI Health Tools than Just Answers
A research team examined how pregnant people expect AI-powered health tools to support stress management and desire systems that can help them understand how such tools work.Jul 15, 2026|from Northwestern Engineering News
Northwestern Computer Science at EC’26
Three Northwestern schools represented the University at the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation this month.Jul 9, 2026
Ahuja to Participate in The Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
Professor Karan Ahuja is one of 74 outstanding early-career engineers selected for NAE's signature event, designed to facilitate the cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas and techniques to strengthen US innovative capacity.Jul 1, 2026|from Northwestern Engineering News
Northwestern Computer Science at CVPR 2026
Professors Emma Alexander, Manling Li, Han Liu, Marcelo Worsley, and their students represented Northwestern CS at CVPR 2026 this month.Jun 30, 2026
Apple Taps Northwestern Eye-Tracking Tech for Vision Pro Wheelchair Controls
Crain’s Chicago Business wrote about how years-long research at Northwestern and Shirley Ryan AbilityLab done by a team with Professor Brenna Argall is being put to use by Apple in tech that lets eye movements create the signals that power wheelchair control systems.Jun 25, 2026|from Crain's Chicago Business
Northwestern Tech Helps Power Apple Vision Pro Wheelchair-Control Feature
Apple unveiled a new Vision Pro accessibility feature that allows users to control powered wheelchairs using only their eyes, and technology developed by Professor Brenna Argall helps make it possible.Jun 22, 2026|from Northwestern Engineering News
Jumping Spiders Inspire Wildly Efficient 3D Camera
Popular Science wrote about the work by a team with Professor Emma Alexander that led to SpiderCam, which perceives depth the same way that jumping spiders gauge distances before jumping.Jun 16, 2026|from Popular Science
Aaron W. Saak Offers Four Directionally Correct Principles for PhD and Master’s Graduates
Saak, president and CEO of Crane NXT, and Dean Christopher Schuh spoke at the June 15 PhD Hooding and Master’s Recognition Ceremony.Jun 16, 2026|from Northwestern Engineering News
Antonio Daniels Shares Seven Pieces of Advice with Graduates
Daniels, chief information officer at Comcast Business, and Dean Christopher Schuh spoke at the 2026 Undergraduate Convocation on June 15.Jun 16, 2026|from Northwestern Engineering News
PhD Grad Spotlight: Glenn Fernandes
Fernandes is a research engineer at Meta Reality Labs in the Health and Wellbeing Technology group, where he works on next-generation wearable technologies.Jun 12, 2026
Grad Spotlight: Sophia Pi
Continuing her passion for research, Pi will begin a PhD in computer and information sciences at the University of Pennsylvania this fall.Jun 11, 2026
Grad Spotlight: Joanna Soltys
After graduation, Soltys is staying in Chicago to join legal data intelligence company Relativity as a software engineer.Jun 10, 2026
Accelerating Medical Discovery and Reframing the Biosafety Risk Landscape
Researchers, students, and practitioners from across the University registered to attend the three Distinguished Speaker Series events NNCI hosted in May.Jun 9, 2026|from Northwestern Network for Collaborative Intelligence
PhD Grad Spotlight: Rashna Kumar
Kumar will continue her research at the intersection of computer networks and policy as a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern, while also teaching as an instructor of record in the coming year.Jun 9, 2026