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PhD Student Haoling Li Earns Prestigious IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship

06/17/2026

Haoling Li, a PhD candidate at Northeastern advised by INSI’s Professor Najme Ebrahimi, has been awarded the Graduate Fellowship from the Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S) of IEEE — only the second Northeastern student ever to receive the honor, and the first since 2012. Both Li and Ebrahimi are members of the Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems (INSI). His award-winning research bridges millimeter-wave communications and quantum computing hardware, applying direct digital-to-physical conversion techniques — used in energy-efficient, scalable transmitter designs — to cryogenic pulse-synthesis circuits that control superconducting qubits. The fellowship includes $6,000 and travel funding, presented at the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium in Boston this June.

Northeastern University, SoftBank Corp., Keysight, and zTouch Networks Demonstrate LTM-powered Autonomous Agentic AI-RAN at MWC Barcelona 2026

02/26/2026

Northeastern University’s Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems (INSI), SoftBank Corp. (SoftBank), Keysight Technologies, and zTouch Networks are demonstrating Autonomous Agentic AI-RAN (AgentRAN) at Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona 2026. AgentRAN is a first-of-its-kind system that coordinates a hierarchy of AI agents to translate high-level operator intents into real-time, autonomous 5G and 6G network configurations and services.

Northeastern University Launches Open6G+AI: Toward an Open-Source Ecosystem to Accelerate AI-Powered End-to-End 6G Wireless Networks

02/05/2026

NSF-funded initiative creates “Community of Communities” across leading open-source projects to build comprehensive AI-RAN development platform

BOSTON, MA – Northeastern University’s Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems (INSI) announces Open6G+AI, a groundbreaking open-source ecosystem and architecture designed to accelerate innovation in AI-enabled Radio Access Networks (AI-RAN). Supported by a National Science Foundation grant (TI-2449452), the project addresses critical fragmentation in the open-source wireless research community by creating an integrated platform for end-to-end AI-RAN development and testing.

New London Tech Hub At Northeastern Wants To Make AI Technology Faster, More Reliable

01/25/2026

After the Boston hub’s success, the new London arm of the Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems opens the door to Europe and boosts AI research with new partnerships, according to director Tommaso Melodia of Northeastern University.