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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

New Chemical Method Stabilizes Tin-containing Perovskites

By adding diamine, researchers achieved a better surficial tin-lead balance and stable barrier layers, which could help solar cells work better and last longer.
Aug 15, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News

How We Could Warm Mars

Researchers conceived a new idea to make the surface of the cold planet habitable.
Aug 12, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News

Scientists Propose Warming up Mars by Using Heat-Trapping ‘Glitter'

The idea from a team including graduate student Samaneh Ansari and Professor Hooman Mohseni that involves augmenting the natural greenhouse effect on Mars to raise its surface temperature by roughly 50 degrees Fahrenheit was profiled by NBC News.
Aug 9, 2024|from NBC News

International Collaboration

Climate scientists at Northwestern University and the University of Hamburg look to drive student research and propel efforts to combat climate change.
Aug 8, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News

Nivedita Arora Featured in 'People of ACM' Series

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) "People of ACM" series highlights the unique scientific accomplishments and compelling personal attributes of ACM members at the forefront of advancing computing as a science and a profession.
Aug 6, 2024|from Association for Computing Machinery

Northwestern Team Earns Honorable Mentions in Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Awards

A Northwestern University-led team of researchers earned honorable mentions in Fast Company’s 2024 Innovation by Design Awards sustainability and student categories for Terracell, a soil-powered fuel cell.
Jul 25, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News

A New Way to Stabilize Perovskite Solar Cells

Northwestern Engineering researchers used stable materials to alleviate the issue of cations moving within a material in devices that convert light into electrical energy.
Jul 17, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News

Jakub Szefer Joins ECE Faculty Team

Szefer will join Northwestern Engineering in January 2025 as an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering.
Jun 24, 2024

Nivedita Arora Wins 2024 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award

The Association for Computing Machinery Doctoral Dissertation Award recognized Arora for her foundational work designing sustainability-first computing systems and exploring their applications.
Jun 17, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
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