David Luzzi, Senior Vice Provost for Research and Vice

President of the Innovation Campus at Burlington, MA

Susan Brown, Associate Director, Office of Family Programs

Research at Northeastern

Meet the Presenter

David Luzzi

Senior Vice Provost for Research and

Vice President of the Innovation Campus

at Burlington, MA

Agenda

• Research Themes: Health, Security, and Sustainability

• Overview of Research Centers and Institutes

• Technology Transfer, Entrepreneurship, Partnerships

• Get Involved!

• Q&A

Health Security Sustainability

By the Numbers

• Northeastern is a Carnegie R1 Institution

• FY18 - $160 Million in new research contracts

• All Colleges (9) are engaged in research

• Nine interdisciplinary research institutes

Health

Nanosensors detect the amplitude, timing, and identity of signaling molecules

Institute for Chemical Imaging of Living Systems

Heather A. Clark

We are developing technologies to observe the chemistry-based processes of the

human brain and body, enabling a better understanding of disease.

Teixobactin

WHO priority pathogens

Priority 1: CRITICAL

•Acinetobacter baumannii,

•Pseudomonas aeruginosa

• Enterobacteriaceae

•Priority 2: HIGH

•Enterococcus faecium

•Staphylococcus aureus

Darobactin

Antimicrobial Discovery Center

Kim Lewis, Director

Discovering new antibiotics to treat “superbugs”

Health Security

Enrich collective

human-robot experience

Human-Robot Collaboration

Secure Robotics

Perception, Planning, and Learning

Systems, Design and Control

Ethics and Policy, Economics and Global Frameworks

Security

Cybersecurity and Privacy

Institute

• “Cyber is indispensable—We’re advancing cybersecurity

through ground-breaking, collaborative research.” Make

cyber SAFE and increasingly USEFUL.

– Also a game changer; for example, Amazon, self-driving cars,…

• How? Faculty and students working with companies and

government oranizations

– Microsoft, Intel, VMware, PwC, Stanley Black & Decker, Google,

BAE Systems

– Air Force Research Labs, National Science Foundation, DARPA,

Homeland Security, Office of Naval Research, Pacific Northwest

National Labratory

Cybersecurity expertise

What our

faculty study

Operation Cloud Network Data SW IoT

ML Analytics

Sharing Anonymity Crypto Bugs HW, SW

Risk Outsourcing Intrusion ProvenanceSensors and

Control

Policy Wireless/SSLData

leakage

Northeastern has the broadest applied security expertise in the nation.

14+ tenured/tenure-track faculty who focus exclusively in these areas.

AI in Cyber Security

Original Image

Class “Left”

Adversarial Machine Learning in

Self-Driving Cars

Adversarial Image

Class “Right”

Analytics

Framework for

WannaCry

Detection

Evolu6on,of,an,Instrument,Concept,,

Second Generation Precipitation Radar (PR-2) • Ku/Ka-band Precipitation Radar • First spaceborne precipitation radar concept

using cylindrical parabolic reflector, active linear array feed

Cloud Cross-track scanning Dual-frequency Doppler radar (C2D2) • Ka/W-band

• Similar antenna configuration to PR-2 • First concept proposing W-band scanning

Three-band Cloud and Precipitation Radar (3CPR) • Ku/Ka/W-band

• Similar antenna configuration PR-2/C2D2 • Combines three active linear array feeds

• Scanning at all three bands • Capable of simultaneous cloud / precipitation

measurements

Deployable Reflector Demo

40mm

8 TX / 16 RX Channel Ka-band TR Module

2x8 Element W-band Phased Array

Array-fed Cylindrical Parabolic Reflector common to all three concepts

High-power W-band GaN MMIC

Ka-band GaN PA

MMIC (3.24 x 1.54

mm)Ka-band microstrip lumped

element isolator (6 x 5 x 4 mm)

Current State-of-the-Art

>10x SWAP reduction

Ka-band transmit and receive

module (TRM) (8x16 elements)

Source: NASA JPL

Northeastern researchers have developed advanced magnetoceramic technology that

omits bias magnet and allows complete semiconductor integration of active and

passive systems -- first time ”system-on-a-wafer” GaN-based TRM fabrication!

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$8m DARPA Northeastern M3IC MAGNETS

Rare earth-based

permanent magnet NU breakthrough!

50% less heat generated

State of the technology

One- of-a-kind magnetic field press

(only one in the world) enables our

technology to be developed.

MAGNETICS Vince Harris, KRI

Security Sustainability

MISSIONGRI is committed to advancing the

security, sustainability, health and well-

being of communities and societies

around the world

Founding Director, GRI

Professor of Political Science

Professor of Civil and Environmental

Engineering

Developing

Resilience

Solutions for

Thriving

Communities

Promoting

Resilient

Critical

Infrastructure

Design

Improving

Resilience

of Global

Supply

Chain

Driving

Innovative

Technology

Solutions

Resilience-

Enabling

Financing

Innovations

RESILIENCEStephen FlynnGlobal Resilience Institute (GRI)

Sustainability

Cities by the Sea:

• More than half of the world’s

population lives by the coast,

with a growing fraction in cities.

• More than two-thirds of the

world’s megacities are on the

coast.

HONG KONG

SHANGHAI STOCKHOLM

BOSTON

Global Threats:

• Sea level rise, coastal storms, and climate

change threaten human coastal

communities and economies.

• 70% of global fisheries are fully exploited

or depleted.

Environmental & Economic Impacts:

• 90% of all marine species live along the

coast.

• Nation’s ports: $700 billion per year.

• Coastal areas contribute $1 trillion to

annual US GDP and support 60 million

jobs.

Renovated Edwards

Laboratory

State-of-the-Art Seawater

System

Experimental Greenhouse &

Tank Farm

Palmer Station,

AntarcticaGulf of Maine Conch Reef,

Florida Keys

Panama

Why Northeastern?• The only year-round coastal marine

lab in the U.S. close to a major city.

• Focused and adaptive interdisciplinary

research portfolio.

• Early adopter; others are taking notice

(UC Santa Cruz, UC Santa Barbara, U.

Miami Rosenstiel).

Solutions:• Interdisciplinary research networks of natural and social

scientists, engineers, economists, and policy makers.

• Distributed sensing networks, autonomous robotic

technologies and big data modeling.

• Decision support tools and indicators for coastal adaptation

strategies.

• Coastal infrastructure; ecological restoration; climate

modeling and ecological forecasting; sustainable

aquaculture.

Networking for Big Data Laboratory

Prof. Edmund Yeh (ECE)

Projects totaling > $11M funded by DARPA, NSF,

Cisco, Intel on new 5G mobile edge computing

architecture (e.g. autonomous driving, Industry

4.0, VR/AR)

$1M project funded by NSF to redesign Large Hadron

Collider (LHC) high energy physics network, the world’s

Largest data-intensive application

Projects totaling > $6.75M funded by NSF, DTRA on building

critical resilient interdependent network infrastructures

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Technology Transfer

and Entrepreneurship

• Disseminating

research outcomes

– Publications,

presentations

– Intellectual property

protection

• Center for Research

Innovation

• Partnerships

Innovation Campus at Burlington, MA

• Partnership Model – Government-Industry-University

• Accelerate the Technology Development Spiral

• High Trust Environment; Government as lead customer

• > 20 Companies

• Army RL – NE

• Air Force

Counter UAS

Partnerships, Programs, Facilities

• Companies, Government,

Supranational Organizations

• Large Funded Research Programs

• Unique Facilities

• Talented, Motivated People

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