It is my pleasure to address all of you as the interim chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Northeastern University. On January 1, 2025, Edmund Yeh, professor of electrical and computer engineering, will take the helm as our permanent department chair.
Our ECE department continues to move to new heights and set new standards within Northeastern. In FY2024, our faculty received more than $52 million in external research awards, primarily from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Commerce, among many others. Our accomplished faculty received prestigious honors, including being elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and several being named fellows and distinguished members of professional societies. On the junior faculty side, four of our assistant professors received early-career awards from the NSF and DARPA.
