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Sep 11, 2026
AIResQ Startup Uses Physics-Guided AI for Flood Resilience
Co-founded by CEE PhD alumni Udit Bhatia, PhD’18, and COE Distinguished Professor Auroop Ganguly, the startup AIResQ combines physics-guided artificial intelligence with localized data and custom low-cost sensors to help Indian cities and transportation networks predict and prepare for monsoon floods in real time.
Sep 04, 2026
New Faculty Spotlight: Enrique del Castillo
Enrique del Castillo joined the Civil and Environmental Engineering department in July 2026 as an Assistant Professor.
Sep 03, 2026
Interdisciplinary Team Receives NSF FIRE Grant to Study FireScreens for Wildfire Safety
MIE Professor Yiannis Levendis, CEE Professor Luca Caracoglia, Affiliated Faculty Michelle Laboy, and MIE Assistant Professor Jeffrey Lipton were awarded a $1.06M NSF Fire Science Innovations through Research and Education (FIRE) grant for “Investigating Potential Solutions to Reduce Wildfire Risk Through Structural Hardening.”
Sep 02, 2026
Multifactorial Causes of Himalaya Flood Devastation
CEE Distinguished Professor Auroop Ganguly explains that the catastrophic devastation from the recent flood in Nepal and Tibet was driven by a combination of natural triggers—such as a dislodged glacier chunk mixing with monsoon sediments—and human factors like land-use choices, lack of infrastructure preparedness, and high regional vulnerability.
Sep 01, 2026
Liu to Lead New $1.2M Collaborative NSF Grant on Wildfire Emissions
Under a new $1.2M grant from the National Science Foundation’s Fire Science Innovations program, civil and environmental engineering assistant professor Shang Liu will lead a multi-institution study of emissions from building materials burned during wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires for the project “Investigating Fire Behavior-Emission Relationships for Building Materials.”
Aug 31, 2026
Northeastern Joins $2M NSF-Funded Effort to Build Resilience Against Wildfire and Its Cascading Aftershocks
Northeastern’s Auroop Ganguly is part of a four-university team awarded a $2M NSF grant to develop new models for predicting and managing the cascading wildfire, infrastructure, and community risks facing communities in the wildland-urban interface.
Aug 27, 2026
Ghoreishi Receives $369K NSF Award for AI/ML-Enabled Resilient Building Design
Fatemeh Ghoreishi, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, jointly appointed with the Khoury College of Computer Sciences, has received a $368,688 award from the U.S. National Science Foundation to advance artificial intelligence and machine learning methods for safer, more resilient building design.
Aug 06, 2026
Two Northeastern Faculty Named 2027 AMS Fellows
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) announced its 2027 honorees across a variety of weather, climate, and water research areas, including the Class of 2027 AMS Fellows. This year, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s College of Engineering Distinguished Professors Auroop Ganguly and Yang Zhang were both inducted as AMS Fellows.