Our team
Current Lab Members
Deniz Erdogmus
I am the CTO of Kostas Research Institute and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where I previously served as the first Associate Chair for Research.
I direct the Cognitive Systems Laboratory, which is (a) a member of the Center for SPIRAL — a nexus of signal and image analytics and machine learning, (b) a member of the self-organized PEN (Psychologists, Engineers, Neuroscientists) Cluster at Northeastern — a nexus of experimental and modeling driven studies of brain and peripheral nervous system and their interactions with the body, (c) a member of the inter-institutional CAMBI — a nexus of assistive technology research and development including brain interfaces, and (d) a member of the inter-institutional i-ROP Consortium — a nexus of research and development of retinopathy of prematurity assessment and treatment monitoring technologies. I am also a core faculty member at Northeastern’s Institute for Experiential Robotics and Institute for Experiential Artificial Intelligence.
Research Interests:
Signal and Image Analysis, Machine Learning, Information Fusion and Inference in multiple application domains
Brain and Body Interfaces for Computers, Robots, Systems including Human-in-the-loop Cyber-Physical System
Current service activties:
CTO, KRI at Northeastern University LLC, Mar 2022 – present
Technical Director, Kostas Research Institute, Mar 2022 – present
Associate Chair for Research, ECE Department, Jul 2019 – Jun 2022
KRI Faculty Liaison for ONR Programs, Northeastern University, Jul 2020 – Feb 2022
Northeastern Faculty Senate, (Elected) Chair of the Senate Agenda Committee, Jul 2020 – Jun 2021
Northeastern Faculty Senate, (Elected, 2 terms) Secretary of the Senate Agenda Committee, Jul 2018 – Jun 2020
Northeastern Faculty Senate Member, Jul 2017 – present
IEEE SPS Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP) Technical Committee Member, Jan 2017 – Dec 2022
BCI Society Founding Member, Jan 2017 – present
Brain Computer Interfaces Journal Associate Editor, Jul 2013 – present
Panelist for NSF and NIH, Senior Technical Committee Member for several machine learning conferences
Reviewer for NSERC, and a few journals in the area of neural engineering, signal processing, machine learning
Teaching:
2021: EECE5644 Introduction to Machine Learning (Spring) — SCHEDULED
2020: EECE5644 Introduction to Machine Learning (Spring & Summer1 & Summer2 & Fall)
2019: EECE5644 Introduction to Machine Learning (Summer1 & Fall)
2018: EECE5644 Introduction to Machine Learning (Summer1 & Summer2 & Fall)
2017: EECE2520 Linear Systems (Fall) & EECE5644 Introduction to Machine Learning (Fall)
2016: EECE2520 Linear Systems (Fall) & EECE5644 Introduction to Machine Learning (Fall)
2015: EECE-7323 Numerical Optimization Methods (Spring) & EECE2520 Linear Systems (Fall) & EECE-7335 Detection & Estimation Theory (Fall)
2014: EECE2520 Linear Systems (Spring) & EECE-7335 Detection & Estimation Theory (Spring)
2013: EECE2150 Intro to Circuits and Signals (Fall)
2012: EECE-7310 Modern Signal Processing (Spring) & EECE2520 Linear Systems (Spring) & EECE2150 Intro to Circuits and Signals (Fall) & EECE-7323 Numerical Optimization Methods (Fall)
2011: EECE-7310 Modern Signal Processing (Spring) & EECE-7323 Numerical Optimization Methods (Fall)
2010: EECE-5666 Digital Signal Processing (Spring) & EECE-7310 Modern Signal Processing (Spring) & EECE-7323 Numerical Optimization Methods (Fall)
2009: EECE-5666 Digital Signal Processing (Spring) & EECE-7310 Modern Signal Processing (Spring)
OHSU/OGI: I taught Signals and Systems & Machine Learning every academic year from September 2004 to August 2008.
Alumni
PhD
Aziz Kocanaogullari, Peng Tian, S. Yagmur Gunay-Onol, Ozan Ozdenizci, Yeganeh Marghi, Paula Gonzalez-Navarro, Sadegh Salehi, Fernando Quivira, Marzieh Haghighi, Jamshid Sourati, Matt Higger, Mohammad (Sina) Moghadamfalahi, Matineh Shaker, Emre Onuk, Hooman Nezamfar, Asieh Ahani, Nastaran Ghadar, Esra Ataer-Cansizoglu, Sheng You, Umut Orhan, Tian Lan, Erhan Bas, Olexiy Kyrgyzov, Catherine Huang, Umut Ozertem
MS Thesis
Berkan Kadioglu, Aisheng Guo, Alan Haghy, Golnaz Eftekhari, Haofu Liao, Matt Higger
MS Project
Dharanish Kedarisetti,Athena Nouhi, Chen Yang, Ang Li, Tanarat Dityam, Sandeep Padmakumar, Wei-Hsuan Liao, Nikhila Srikanth, Dandan Hou, Kartik Pasupathy, Joseph Bailey, Ala Mullangi, Prasanjit Mondal, Burkay Dorter
Capstone
2020: Zachary Bauer, James Elliott, Mariette Sergios, Melis Tirhi, Nicole Wynee
2018: Amaresh Emani, Michael Rossi Santomauro, Alexander Embry, Anthony Montuoro
2016: Jenna Czeck, Harrison Dimmig, Filmon Elias, Gen Ohta, Francesca Sally, Eric Tseng
2016: Gerald LaMountain, Yinyin Ye, Henry Yan, Yufeng Wang
2015: James McLean, Sam Rendall, Laurel McCallister, Gina Spiri, Wyatt Bertorelli
2015: An Khang Vo, Ayumu Oda, Boris Mataev, Daniel Song, Daniel Thompson, Zachary Berry
2011: Pedro Lopes, Basel Magfory, James Barron, Mohamed Kante, Nick Aquino, Rishi Faldu
2011: Barry Briggs, Dana Lopes, Thayne Henry, Sam Bennett, Shane Mulkerrin
2011: Anthony DiPasquale, Jeremy Egan, Brian Nelson, Huy Tran, Jason Turcotte, Frank Vieira
2011: Nathaniel Kaye, Hamilton Kibbe, Boris Lippeve, Kyle Mueller, Michael Nedoroscik, Rafael Perez
2010: Saumitro Dasgupta, Mike Fanton, Jonathan Pham, Mike Willard
REU
2020: Deanna Prochnau, Jaiden Cruger, Jeffrey Weintraub, Sreekar Chilakapati, Spencer Jacobs-Skolis
2019: Ceyda Tekalp, Deana Prochnau, Evelyn D’Elia, Jeffrey Weintraub, Spencer Jacobs-Skolis, Zachary Bauer
2018: Deana Prochnau, Evelyn D’Elia, Noel Prince, Spencer Jacobs-Skolik
2017: Alex Piers, Chris Babroski, David Howie, Michael Harris
2016: Alex Piers, Chris Babroski, Harrison Dimmig, James McLean, Mark Higger, Michael Harris, Tom Hoang
2015: James McLean, Harrison Dimmig, Mark Higger, Saleem Karamali, Tom Hoang
2014: Daniel Song, Gerald LaMountain, Marilyn Mauclaire
2013: Aaron Harlap, Cassandra Buzby, Jonathan Archbold, Luchen Zhang, Marc Thomas, Richard Zhao, Tushar Swamy, Zhen Hang Jiang
2012: Antonio Rufo, James McLean, Jonathan Archbold, Rhodesherdeline Limage, Robert St. Denis
2011: Gary Wong
2010: Daniel Kern, Gregory Shimonov, Mike Kasparian
2007: Arda Ozertem
2006: Arda Ozertem
K-12
2019: Brian Ramos, Science Fair Project (selected to top 5 in MA for Intel Science Fair), w/ John Menkens @ East Boston High School
2018: Ooviya Sathiyamoorthy, Science Fair Project (went to Brown CS), w/ John Menkens @ East Boston High School
2018: Ciarra Coston, Eren Gulbas – summer interns
2015: Katie Bradford, Jacob Farnham – summer interns
2014: Kun Yi Li, Eric Lehman – summer interns
2013: Rachel Guen, Laura Bergemann – summer interns; RET: Kurt Lichtenwald (Gloucester HS)
2012: Amy Schmitt, John Shen – summer interns; RET: Michael Hirsh (Needham HS), Dan Smalley (John D O’Bryant HS, Boston)
2011: Christopher Kaffine, Connor Myers, Yuanchen Zhang – summer interns; RET: Dan Smalley (John D O’Bryant HS, Boston)
2010: Reem Alami, Jevon Yu – summer interns; RET: Paul Marques, Thomas Picanco
2009: Shweta Kitchloo, Parthiv Patel – summer interns; RET: Nora Linskey, Thomas Picanco
2008: Kenneth Qian (Saturday Academy Apprenticeship)
2007: Hanna Choi (Saturday Academy Apprenticeship)
2006: William Fan, Edward Nguyen Science Fair Project (3rd Place at Intel International Science Fair)