When Sofya Akhmametyeva (MSR ‘17) arrived at Northwestern Engineering’s Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) program in 2015, her goal was straightforward. She wanted to apply machine learning to ...

Pursuing computer science (CS) was a no-brainer for Zach Wood-Doughty. A third-generation computer science professor following in his father and grandfather’s footsteps, he was hooked at a very early ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The challenge for nanophotonics engineers is the wide range of optical responses that metamaterials and other nanoplasmonic structures can generate. The optical properties of bulk ...

Whether on factory floors, construction sites, or warehouses, accidents have been an ongoing, and sometimes deadly, factor across industries. Add in the pandemic — and an increasing rate and intensity ...

"Learning is one of the most personal things that people do; engineering provides problem-solving methods to enable learning at scale. How do we resolve this paradox?" —Ellen Wagner Learning ...

Modern science requires modern technological solutions. As we prise the natural world apart in search of answers to ever more complex questions, we need to be thinking in new ways about our approach ...

Deep Instinct applies deep learning to cybersecurity—going beyond what machine learning can accomplish with a neural network designed to emulate the human brain and learn as it goes. Cyber attacks are ...