Computing and Networking

UW ECE’s Computer and Network research includes computer architecture and computer system engineering, VLSI, embedded computing, wireless networks, and wireless communication research. Several of UW ECE’s Computers and Networking faculty hold joint and secondary appointments in computer science and engineering and teach jointly in the Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering departments.

Topics

Computer Engineering and Architecture

Operating systems, performance analysis, and testbed development, FPGA based computing architectures

Faculty: Scott Hauck, Matt Reynolds, C.J. Richard Shi, Joshua Smith, Michael Taylor

Very-Large-Scale Integration (VLSI)

Analog and digital VLSI integrated circuits, devices, and applications, energy management

Faculty: Jacques Christophe Rudell, C.J. Richard Shi, Michael Taylor

Embedded Systems

Mobile devices, embedded control systems, real-time systems, tools and networks

Faculty: Matt Reynolds, Shwetak Patel, Joshua Smith, Sumit Roy, Michael Taylor, Akshay Gadre

Wireless Communication

Internet architecture, network economics, distributed systems, developing country infrastructure

Faculty: Radha Poovendran, Sumit Roy, James Ritcey, Payman Arabshahi, Akshay Gadre

Cybersecurity

Network security, game theory, statistical modeling, machine learning and control and systems theory

Faculty: Radha Poovendran, Payman Arabshahi

Latest News

The Integrator 2025–2026

Read the latest issue of The Integrator, UW ECE’s flagship annual magazine highlighting the Department’s extraordinary faculty and student research, achievements, alumni stories, special events and more from this past year!

IFDS workshop brings together experts to help make AI more reliable, robust, and trustworthy

The Institute for Foundations of Data Science brought AI and machine learning experts together from across the nation to explore the mathematical, statistical, and algorithmic underpinnings of modern AI systems — advancing theory to better understand and improve AI technology.

Hossein Naghavi — developing high frequency electronics for imaging, sensing, and communication

UW ECE Assistant Professor Hossein Naghavi directs the Terahertz Integrated MicroElectronics Lab at the UW, where he designs microchips that use high frequency terahertz electronics built using integrated circuit design and electromagnetics techniques.

UW ECE graduate students receive Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship

UW ECE doctoral students and Fellowship recipients Marziyeh Rezaei (left) and Pengyu Zeng (right) are conducting research aimed at enabling scalable, power-efficient optical links for the next generation of edge-cloud data centers supporting 6G infrastructure.

Yiyue Luo — A I dressed for success

UW ECE assistant professor Yiyue Luo is developing smart clothing that can sense where a person is, know what movement is needed to perform a task, and provide physical cues to guide performance.

Precision at the smallest scale

UW ECE students toured inside the Washington Nanofabrication Facility, where tiny tech is transforming research in quantum, chips, medicine and more.