Recent highlights and media coverage
[May, 2019] Air Force Targets Drones during Latest Pitch Day
MIE/ECE Associate Professor Jose Martinez Lorenzo was featured in the U.S. Air Force article “Air Force Targets Drones during Latest Pitch Day” and the Lowell Sun video “Drone swarm detection & Tracking Demo”.
[May, 2019] Developing Better Airport Sensors
ECE Professor Carey Rappaport and MIE/ECE Associate Professor Jose Martinez-Lorenzo are developing sensors that could replace current airport scanners to quickly scan passengers as they walk down a hallway.
[May, 2019] ALERT Awarded Patent
ECE Professor Carey Rappaport & MIE/ECE Assistant Professor Jose Martinez-Lorenzo awarded a patent for “On the move millimeter wave interrogation system.”
[April, 2019]ECE Team Awarded DOD DURIP Grant
ECE Professor Tommaso Melodia and co-PIs Associate Professors Kaushik Chowdhury, Stefano Basagni, and Assistant Professor Jose Angel Martinez-Lorenzo were awarded a $295K grant by the Office of Naval Research for their proposal on “PROTECT: A Millimeter-wave Programmable Radio platfOrm and Tactical wirelEss Communication Testbed” as part of DOD’s Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP).
[September, 2018] MIE/ECE Faculty Awarded $1.5M AFRL Grant
MIE/ECE Assistant Professor Jose Martinez-Lorenzo, ECE Professor Tommaso Melodia, ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury, ECE/MIE Professor Hanumant Singh, and CCIS/ECE Affiliated Faculty Chris Amato were awarded a $1.5M Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) grant for “Robust Decentralized Classification and Coordination Algorithms for Swarms of SUAS.”
[September, 2018] Presentation to Northeastern University’s Board of Trustees our new interdisciplinary grant from the Air Force on “Robust
Decentralized Classification and Coordination Algorithms for Swarms of SUAS.” In this exciting project of the IoT cluster, Profs. Jose Martinez, Tommaso Melodia, Kaushik Chowdhury, Chris Amato, and Hanumant Singh will develop a decentralized classification and coordination framework for swarms of Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (SUAS) operating under constrained communications.
[April, 2018] Research featured at Northeastern University News. Laboratory research demonstration to US’ TSA administrator David Pekoske.
[August, 2017] DoE BES grant, MIE/ECE Assistant Professor Jose Martinez-Lorenzo was awarded a $546K Department of Energy grant for “Fusing Thermoacoustic, Electromagnetic and Acoustic/Seismic Wave Fields for Subsurface Characterization and Imaging of Flow Transport.
[April, 2017] NBC Boston Video
[February, 2017] NSF-CAREER, MIE/ECE Assistant Professor Martinez-Lorenzo Award NSF CAREER Award for Fast 4D Imaging System
“MIE/ECE Assistant Professor Jose Martinez-Lorenzo awarded $500K NSF CAREER Award for “4D mm-Wave Compressive Sensing and Imaging at One Thousand Volumetric Frames per Second”
[June, 2016] CNN, Is this the future of airport security?
“What if the standing around part of airport security became a thing of the past? A team of engineers at Northeastern University is working on technology that could screen passengers quickly enough that they would haven’t to slow down for security on their way to the gate.”
[May, 2016] WIRED magazine, “The woeful TSA doesn’t need more staff. It needs this tech.”
“Technology could be used to at least shore up those foundations. The Awareness and Localization of Explosives-Related Threats (ALERT) Center at Northeastern University is a Department of Homeland Security “Center of Excellence” (a swanky name for funded R&D centers) that is looking into the future of security checkpoints, and it’s got some intriguing ideas. Those include making checkpoints painless—maybe even invisible—and new video recognition techniques to spot and track suspicious behavior.
‘Our vision for a 2020 checkpoint is to triple the current rate of scanning,’ says researcher Jose Martinez Lorenzo, from 100 people per line, per hour, to 300. Better yet, in his vision, passengers won’t even have to break stride, offer up their tiny shampoo bottles, or dig out their computers. They will walk through an arch or a tunnel at normal pace, and be scanned in real time.”
[February, 2016] Northeastern University News, “Creating the Future of Airport Security.”
[February, 2016] Research featured in KeysightTechnologies Faculty Spotlight.
[May, 2015] New York Times, “Airport Security Advances Clash With Privacy Issues.”
“‘The goal is to have a system that provides better scanning of individuals going through security, while at the same time making it more convenient,’ said Jose Martinez Lorenzo, a professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, who is directing the project.”
[October, 2012] Laboratory research demonstration to US’ Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
Other News
2018
[July, 2018] Welcome to the Young Scholar Program Liane Xu, Boston Latin School, and Nabil Kebichi, Lexington High School.
[July, 2018] Welcome to the Experience for Undergraduates (REU) from the ALERT program Diego Rojas, Alexis Costales, and Joseph Von Holten.
[May, 2018] Congratulations ASHKAN GHANBARZADEH for the successful defense of your Ph.D. thesis: “High-Sensing-Capacity, Bimodal Mechatronic Imaging System for Early Detection of Breast Cancer.”
[May 2018] MIE undergraduate student Katherine Graham won the Best Student Poster in the US Department of Homeland Security Centers of Excellence Summit. Awarded for the paper: “Compressive Antennas for High-Sensing Capacity Imaging.”
2017
[December, 2017] MIE PhD student Ashkan Ghanbarzadeh won the best paper award in the “5th MIE Department Research Poster Expo.”
[December, 2017] Undergraduate student Anthony Bisulco won for the second year in a row the “Bruce Pelzer Merit Scholarship Fund.”
[July 2017] Welcome to the Young Scholar Program Alex Zhu, Wayland High School, and Diego Cachay, Boston Latin School.
[June, 2017] Congratulations GALIA GHAZI for the successful defense of your Ph.D. thesis: “Modeling and Experimental Validation for 3D mm-wave Radar Imaging.”
[May, 2017] MIE undergraduate student Katherine Graham won the “DHS Science and Engineering Workforce Development Program fellowship” – this award covers tuition and stipend
for two years of undergraduate education.
[January 2017] Undergraduate student Anthony Bisulco won for the third year in a row the “The Saul and Gitta Kurlat Undergraduate Engineering Scholarship.”
2016
[December 2016] Undergraduate student Anthony Bisulco won the “Bruce Pelzer Merit Scholarship Fund.”
[August, 2016] Undergraduate student Anthony Bisulco won the “Best Research Process in the NEU REU Showcase.”
[June, 2016] Congratulations MOHAMMAD M. TAJDINI for the successful defense of your Ph.D. thesis: “Semi-Analytic Approach for Subsurface Ground Penetrating Radar Detection.”
[June, 2016] Welcome to the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) from the ALERT program Anthony Bisulco.
[February, 2016] Undergraduate student Anthony Bisulco won the “Research Fellowship through the University of Michigan for CERN.”
[January 2016] Undergraduate student Anthony Bisulco won for second year on a row the “The Saul and Gitta Kurlat Undergraduate Engineering Scholarship.”
2015
[December, 2015] Congratulations HIPOLITO GOMEZ-SOSA (University of Vigo) for the successful defense of your Ph.D. thesis: “Integro-differential numerical methods for computational electromagnetics.”
[November, 2015] Undergraduate student Anthony Bisulco won the “Internet of Things Hackathon,” University of Rhode Island.
http://www.providencejournal.com/article/20151115/NEWS/151119505/14111
[July 2015] Welcome to the Young Scholar Program Ryan MacCarthy, Waltham High School, and Vindhya Kuchibhotla, Advanced Math and Science Academy.
[June, 2015] Welcome to the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) from the ALERT program Chenyang Liu.
[April, 2015] Undergraduate Chenyang (Eric) Liu received a “Scholar Independent Research award.”
[April, 2015] PhD student Yolanda Rodriguez-Vaqueiro received the “Research Impact Award” from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.
[March, 2015] Congratulations YOLANDA RODRIGUEZ VAQUEIRO, ECE, for the defense of your Ph.D. thesis: “Compressive Sensing for Electromagnetic Imaging Using Nesterov-Based Algorithm.”
[July, 2015] Congratulations to Richard Obermeier for Passing his PhD Qualifying Exam.
[July, 2015] Congratulations to Ali Molaei for Passing his PhD Qualifying Exam.
[January, 2015] Undergraduate student Anthony Bisulco won the “The Saul and Gitta Kurlat Undergraduate Engineering Scholarship.”
2014
[June, 2014] Welcome to the Young Scholar Program Jenny Dinh, from Lowell High School, and Imani George from the Thayer Academy.
[June, 2014] Welcome to the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) from the ALERT program Mohit Bhardwaj.
[June, 2014] L. Tirado, G. Ghazi, J. A. Martinez-Lorenzo, C. Rappaport, Y. Alvarez and F. Las-Heras presented a paper entitled “A GPU Implementation of the Inverse Fast Multipole Method for Multi-Bistatic Imaging Applications” in IEEE AP-S International Symposium, Memphis, TN.
[June, 2014] G. Ghazi, L. Tirado, C. Rappaport and J. A. Martinez-Lorenzo presented a paper entitled “Coherent Image Formation and Calibration for Multi-Bistatic Radar Configurations” in IEEE AP-S International Symposium, Memphis, TN.
[April, 2014] R. Obermeier, M. Tivnan, C. Rappaport and J. A. Martinez-Lorenzo presented a paper entitled “3D Imaging of Breast Cancer Using a Hybrid Near field Radar Imaging / Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Reconstruction Technique” in Northeast Bioengineering Conference, Boston, MA.
[April, 2014] Yolanda Rodriguez-Vaqueiro and Jose Angel Martinez-Lorenzo presented a paper entitled “Compressive Sensing techniques applied to standoff detection of security threats using Passive Reflecting Surfaces” in RISE 2014.
[April, 2014] Yolanda Rodriguez-Vaqueiro, Richard Lamourine, Rebecca Salzman, Jonathan Malsan, Jeffrey Thatcher, and Jose Angel Martinez-Lorenzo presented a paper entitled “Improved methods for non-invasive medical imaging based on photoplethysmography” in RISE 2014.
[April, 2014] Luis E. Tirado, Galia Ghazi, Carey Rappaport and José A. Martinez-Lorenzo presented a paper entitled “Inverse Fast Multipole Method GPU Implementation for Standoff Radar Imaging Applications” in RISE 2014.
[April, 2014] Galia Ghazi, Luis E. Tirado, Carey M. Rappaport, Jose A. Martinez-Lorenzo presented a paper entitled “Coherent Image Formation and Calibration for Multi-Bistatic Radar Configurations” in RISE 2014.
[April, 2014] Mohit Bhardwaj, Shaan Patel, Galia Ghazi, Luis Tirado, Borja Gonzalez-Valdes, Scott Pitas, Cary Rappaport, Jose Martinez-Lorenzo presented a paper entitled “Millimeter-Wave Standoff Detection of Concealed Explosives” in RISE 2014.
[April, 2014] Yolanda Rodriguez-Vaqueiro and Jose Angel Martinez-Lorenzo presented a paper entitled “Compressive Sensing techniques applied to standoff detection of security threats using Passive Reflecting Surfaces
[April 11, 2014] Our paper “A compressed senssing-based imaging system” received the Best Propagation Paper Award in the 8th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation.
[April 10, 2014] A new $200k grant awarded NSF 13-551: Microwave Nearfield Radar Imaging (NRI) Using Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) for Non-Invasive Breast Cancer Detection.
[April 10, 2014] Undergraduate student Gregory Allan featured on news@NORTHEASTERN 
[March 20, 2014] Gregory Allan receives the Goldwater Scholarship. Congratulations Greg!
[February 26, 2014] Mohit Bhardwaj the Honors Early Research Grant. Congratulations Mohit!
[February 20, 2014] Jonathan Malsan receives Provost Undergraduate Research Award. Congratulations Jonathan!