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Pavel Belakurski and Abigail Hou Receive ECE Undergraduate Researcher Awards
Congratulations to Pavel and Abby! 🎉 This award recognizes their outstanding achievements and dedication as undergraduate researchers. Well deserved! LinkedIn Post Link
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Jack Thoene and Members Wins ACM SenSys Best Poster Award
Congratulations to Jack Thoene, along with co-authors Rama Janco, Valerie Wong, Samuel Grayson, Emma Alexander, and Nivedita Arora, for receiving the Best Poster Award at ACM/IEEE SenSys 2026 (CPS-IoT Week, San Mateo)! Their project, MANTIS: Manufacturable Application-Specific Narrowband Tunable Filters for Inference-In-Sensor, draws on mantis shrimp-inspired optics to enable lightweight hyperspectral imaging in embedded systems.…
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Prof. Nivedita Arora Named to Women in Energy List by Griffin Museum
We are proud to celebrate Prof. Nivedita Arora for being named to the Women in Energy list by the Griffin Museum. This recognition honors her leadership and contributions at the intersection of sustainable technology and research. Congratulations, Nivedita! Link
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Raj Dave Wins Northwestern CS Outstanding Peer Mentor Award
Congratulations to Raj Dave, a second-year master’s student in Computer Science, for receiving the Winter 2026 Northwestern CS Outstanding Peer Mentor Award! Raj serves as a peer mentor for COMP_SCI 396/496: Data-Driven Plant Science. His nominators noted: “Raj’s impact on the class has been defined by proactiveness that goes beyond the expected duty. He met…
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Jack Thoene and Qitong Li Honored with ECE Best MS Thesis Awards
https://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/electrical-computer/news-events/news/articles/2025/2025-ece-annual-award-winners.html Best MS Thesis Awards Qitong Li (MS ’25) won the Best Computer Engineering MS Thesis Award for “Phytobits: A Bioelectronic Sensor and Microcontroller-Based Curriculum for Cam Photosynthesis Education.” Li, a member of the VAK Sustainable Computing Lab, was advised by Nivedita Arora, the Allen K. and Johnnie Cordell Breed Junior Professor of Design and assistant professor of…
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Katie Jiang Wins UG Research Award
Congratulations to Katie Jiang, who was awarded the Best Computer Engineering Undergraduate Researcher Award. This award recognizes her outstanding achievements and dedication as an undergraduate researcher.
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Four Students Awarded SURG Grants; Ariana Earns Special Recognition
Congratulations to Nara Jung, Ariana Blake, Alice Ping, and Valerie Wong, who were each awarded Northwestern’s Summer Undergraduate Research Grant (SURG) to pursue full-time summer research in the lab. The SURG program supports students through every stage of the research process, from formulating questions to collecting and analyzing data, and synthesizing results. We are especially…
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