2020 Electrical and Computer Engineering Outstanding Recent Faculty Hires

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The department has 63 tenured/tenure-track faculty, 283 PhD students, and research expenditures of $34M. Our downtown Boston campus with research centers and institutes in cutting-edge areas facilitates collaborations with major medical centers, research labs, and industry. Our next generation of faculty are actively contributing to scholarship and societal need.

About Northeastern Electrical and Computer Engineering

coe.northeastern.edu

360 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115

OUTSTANDING RECENT FACULTY HIRES

Srinivas Tadigadapa, chair of Northeastern’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, is proud to recognize our most recent faculty’s accomplishments.

Siddhartha Ghosh

Assistant Professor PhD: Carnegie Mellon University, 2015 Joining Northeastern: Janurary 2021 Scholarship Focus: Acousto-optic and acousto-electric signal processing devices, integrated photonics, piezoelectric MEMS, oscillator-based computing, nanofabrication techniques and heterogeneous material integration Awards and Recent Projects: • NSF IGERT Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania; Cornell Presidential Research Scholarship

Lili Su

Assistant Professor PhD: University of Illinois, 2017 Postdoctoral Research Associate: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017 Joined Northeastern: August 2020 Scholarship Focus: Distributed machine learning, security and fault-tolerance, neural computation, bio-inspired distributed algorithms, blockchains, autonomous cars, algorithm design Awards and Recent Projects: • “Distributed Machine Learning Security,” NSF (PI), 2016

Xiaolin Xu Dimitrios Koutsonikolas

Associate Professor PhD: Purdue University, 2010 Assistant/ Associate Professor: University at Buffalo, SUNY, 2011-2020 Joining Northeastern: January 2021 Scholarship Focus: Experimental wireless networking and mobile computing, with a current focus on millimeter wave networking, high-bandwidth applications (VR, 360o video streaming) over wireless networks, LTE/WiFi coexistence, energy-aware protocol design for smartphones, and wireless sensing

Assistant Professor PhD: University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2016 Assistant Professor: University of Illinois at Chicago, 2018-2020 Joined Northeastern: August 2020 Scholarship Focus: Hardware security and trust, high-performance VLSI, computer architecture, and embedded systems Awards and Recent Projects: • “Bolstering UAV Cybersecurity Education through Curriculum Development with Hands-on Laboratory Framework” NSF (PI), 2020

Awards and Recent Projects: • CAREER: “A Millimeter-Wave Multi-Layer WLAN Architecture for Multi-Gigabit, Always-On Connectivity,” NSF (PI), 2016

Francesco Restuccia

Assistant Professor PhD: Missouri University of Science and Technology, 2016 Postdoctoral Research Associate: Northeastern University 2017-2020 Joined Northeastern: August 2020 Scholarship Focus: Next-generation wireless communications, artificial intelligence, embedded systems, wireless security Awards and Recent Projects: • “Deep Reinforcement Learning for Polymorphic IoT Platforms,” Raytheon Company (Co-PI), 2018 • “Toward Secure-by-design Polymorphic IoT Platforms,” Office of Naval Research (Co-PI), 2018

NORTHEASTERN ENGINEERING INNOVATING FOR SOCIETY

Siddhartha Ghosh

Assistant Professor PhD: Carnegie Mellon University, 2015 Joining Northeastern: Janurary 2021 Scholarship Focus: Acousto-optic and acousto-electric signal processing devices, integrated photonics, piezoelectric MEMS, oscillator-based computing, nanofabrication techniques and heterogeneous material integration Awards and Recent Projects: • NSF IGERT Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania; Cornell Presidential Research Scholarship

Lili Su

Assistant Professor PhD: University of Illinois, 2017 Postdoctoral Research Associate: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017 Joined Northeastern: August 2020 Scholarship Focus: Distributed machine learning, security and fault-tolerance, neural computation, bio-inspired distributed algorithms, blockchains, autonomous cars, algorithm design Awards and Recent Projects: • “Distributed Machine Learning Security,” NSF (PI), 2016

Xiaolin Xu Dimitrios Koutsonikolas

Associate Professor PhD: Purdue University, 2010 Assistant/ Associate Professor: University at Buffalo, SUNY, 2011-2020 Joining Northeastern: January 2021 Scholarship Focus: Experimental wireless networking and mobile computing, with a current focus on millimeter wave networking, high-bandwidth applications (VR, 360o video streaming) over wireless networks, LTE/WiFi coexistence, energy-aware protocol design for smartphones, and wireless sensing

Assistant Professor PhD: University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2016 Assistant Professor: University of Illinois at Chicago, 2018-2020 Joined Northeastern: August 2020 Scholarship Focus: Hardware security and trust, high-performance VLSI, computer architecture, and embedded systems Awards and Recent Projects: • “Bolstering UAV Cybersecurity Education through Curriculum Development with Hands-on Laboratory Framework” NSF (PI), 2020

Awards and Recent Projects: • CAREER: “A Millimeter-Wave Multi-Layer WLAN Architecture for Multi-Gigabit, Always-On Connectivity,” NSF (PI), 2016

Francesco Restuccia

Assistant Professor PhD: Missouri University of Science and Technology, 2016 Postdoctoral Research Associate: Northeastern University 2017-2020 Joined Northeastern: August 2020 Scholarship Focus: Next-generation wireless communications, artificial intelligence, embedded systems, wireless security Awards and Recent Projects: • “Deep Reinforcement Learning for Polymorphic IoT Platforms,” Raytheon Company (Co-PI), 2018 • “Toward Secure-by-design Polymorphic IoT Platforms,” Office of Naval Research (Co-PI), 2018

NORTHEASTERN ENGINEERING INNOVATING FOR SOCIETY

Nonprofit Organization U.S. Postage PAID Holliston, MA Permit No. 74

The department has 63 tenured/tenure-track faculty, 283 PhD students, and research expenditures of $34M. Our downtown Boston campus with research centers and institutes in cutting-edge areas facilitates collaborations with major medical centers, research labs, and industry. Our next generation of faculty are actively contributing to scholarship and societal need.

About Northeastern Electrical and Computer Engineering

coe.northeastern.edu

360 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115

OUTSTANDING RECENT FACULTY HIRES

Srinivas Tadigadapa, chair of Northeastern’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, is proud to recognize our most recent faculty’s accomplishments.