The Faculty Five is an up close and personal view into the world of the Northeastern College of Engineering’s esteemed faculty, giving students the chance to hear about their research areas, student opportunities, and their review process for perspective applicants.
Stefano Basagni (Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Stefano Basagni holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas (December 2001) and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Milano, Italy (May 1998). He received his B.Sc. degree in computer science from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 1991. He is currently a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University, in Boston, MA. He is also a core faculty of Northeastern’s Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things.
Dr. Basagni’s current research interests concern research and implementation aspects of mobile networks and wireless communications systems, wireless sensor networking for IoT (aerial, underwater and terrestrial), definition and performance evaluation of network protocols and theoretical and practical aspects of distributed algorithms.
Hanumant Singh (Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Hanumant Singh is a Professor at Northeastern University. He received his Ph.D. from the MIT WHOI Joint Program in 1995 and then worked on the Staff at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution until 2016 when he joined Northeastern. His research interests are in the area of field robotics, with an emphasis on SLAM, imaging, and mapping, particularly in the marine, polar and aerial domains.
His group has designed and built the Seabed AUV and the Jetyak Autonomous Surface Vehicle, dozens of which are in use for scientific and academic research across the globe. He also has strong interests in small Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). He has participated in 60 expeditions in all of the world’s oceans in support of Marine Geology, Marine Biology, Deep Water Archaeology, Chemical Oceanography, Polar Studies, and Coral Reef Ecology. In collaboration with his students his awards include the ICRA Best Student Paper Award, the Sung Fu Memorial Best IEEE Transactions on Robotics Paper Award and Best Paper Awards at the Oceans Conference and at AGU.
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