It is my great pleasure to report that the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University had another very successful academic year during 2021-2022. Our faculty were awarded over $40 million in research grants. Some highlights include Michael Silevitch, Robert D. Black College of Engineering Distinguished Professor, who was awarded, after an eight-month nationwide competition, a 10-year, $36 million grant to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) multi-institutional Center of Excellence SENTRY (Soft target Engineering to Neutralize the Threat Reality). Also, University Distinguished Professor Eduardo Sontag and collaborators received a $7.5 million DOD MURI award for “Rules of Composition in Synthetic Biology Across Scales of Complexity: Theory and Tools.”
