Thrust 1: Perception (Sensors & Materials)

Siddhartha Ghosh

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

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• 617.373.8040

Core Expertise:

Electromagnetics, Plasma, & Optics; Microsystems, Materials & Devices

Projects:

Acousto-optic and acousto-electric signal processing devices, integrated photonics, piezoelectric MEMS, oscillator-based computing, nanofabrication techniques and heterogeneous material integration.

Sunil Mittal

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Quantum Photonics Lab

Core Expertise:

Topological phenomena, non-Hermitian physics, quantum photonics, nonlinear photonics, two-dimensional materials.

Projects:

Topological Photonics and Quantum Photonics

Benyamin Davaji

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

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• 617.373.5603

Core Expertise:

Microsystems, Materials & Devices

Projects:

Integrated microsystems, data-guided design and nanofabrication, ultrasound microsystems for sensing and computation, and MEMS calorimetry for microbiology and biosensor development

Carol Livermore, PhD

Associate Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

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• 617.373.4922

Micropower and Nanoengineering Laboratory

Core Expertise

MEMS, miniaturized actuator systems, origami-enabled microfabrication, nanomechanics

Projects

Powerful MEMS Actuation

Swastik Kar PhD

Associate Professor, Physics, Founding VP Research, Guardion Tech, Lab

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• 617.373.3375

Laboratory for Graphene Research

Core Expertise

2D Materials and Heterostructures; Synthesis, Optics, Optoelectronics, Sensors, Detectors

Projects

Atomically Thin Materials for Ultrasensitive Sensing and Detection

Youming Liu, PhD

Associate Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Lab

• [email protected]
• 617.373.4457

Research Group of Prof. Yongmin Liu

Core Expertise

Nano optics, nanoscale materials and engineering, nano devices, plasmonics, metamaterials, and applied physics

Projects

Reconfigurable Metamaterials and Metasurfaces, Ultrafast All-Optical Manipulation of Magnetization

Nick McGruer, PhD

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Lab

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• 617.373.2066

Professor McGruer’s Website

Core Expertise

MEMS, Microfabrication, Solid-State Devices, Sensors, Microswitches, Zero-Power Sensors, Microcontacts

Projects

Advanced Contact Materials and Structures, Advanced MEMS Materials and Structures

Srinivas Tadigadapa, PhD

Professor, Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineeri

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Core Expertise

physics and microelectronics; integrated heterogeneous materials-based microsystems, bio and chemical sensors, and electric and thermal transport at the micro-nano interfaces

Projects

Quartz-Based Resonant Sensors, Piezoelectric Actuators for Micro-Robotics

Matteo Rinaldi, PhD

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

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• 617.373.2751

Northeastern Sensors & Nano Systems Laboratory

Core Expertise

Ultra-low power MEMS/NEMS sensors (infrared, magnetic, chemical and biological), plasmonic micro and nano electromechanical devices, medical micro systems and implantable micro devices

Projects

Zero-power IR Sensors, pMUTs for Intra-Body and Underwater Communication

Carlos Hidrovo, PhD

Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Lab

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• 617.373.7520

Multiscale Thermal  Fluids Laboratory

Core Expertise

Multiscale transport (fluid flow, heat and mass transfer) phenomena

Projects

Gas-Liquid Droplet Microfluidics