Research Showcase 2026
Thursday, March 12, 2026
UW HUB
5 – 7:30 p.m.
Event sponsored by Apple, Blue Origin, Madrona, and Microsoft
Our tenth annual UW ECE Research Showcase features cutting-edge research projects from UW ECE graduate students. Visitors have a chance to review posters, speak with students and their advisers and learn more about the exciting projects underway across the various labs at UW ECE. The Research Showcase is a perfect opportunity for visiting prospective students to learn more about the Department’s research.
Research Showcase is UW ECE’s premier event for students to showcase the exciting research projects they are working on in labs and groups across all areas of electrical and computer engineering. This event allows our students to present top research in a variety of areas with societal impact. The topics covered include artificial intelligence, medical device technologies, power and energy, transportation, the environment, wireless communications and more.
2026 Research Showcase Projects
TEAM 1: Neuromodulation via Subdural Cortical Stimulation Improves Hand Function in Chronic Stroke Using a First-In-Human Fully-Implantable Recording and Stimulation System | Advised by Chet Moritz
TEAM 2: DICE: Enabling Efficient SIMT Execution with Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) | Advised by Ang Li
TEAM 3: Agile Development of Energy Efficient Dataflow Fabrics | Advised by Ang Li
TEAM 4: Bluetiful: All-Digital Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Transmitter ASIC using Standard I/O Backscatter | Advised by Ang Li, Matt Reynolds
TEAM 5: Low-Cost Sub-THz Dielectric Grating Antennas | Advised by Hossein Naghavi
TEAM 6: A Sub-THz FMCW Radar Imager using a Phase-Array-Fed Shaped-Reflector Antenna | Advised by Hossein Naghavi
TEAM 7: Super-Lateral-Resolution Imaging using Sub-THz Subtractive Radar | Advised by Hossein Naghavi
TEAM 8: An Ultra Low Noise 5-GHz Ring Oscillator-Based PLL with Over-Sampling Feedforward Phase Noise Cancellation | Advised by Chris Rudell
TEAM 9: ML-Assisted Wideband Injection Pulling Mitigation in Wireless Transceivers | Advised by Chris Rudell
TEAM 10: TwinFocus: Autofocus for Handheld mmWave SAR Imaging via Physical and Digital Twin References | Advised by Akshay Gadre
TEAM 11: AMULET:Acoustic Metastructure for Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Underwater using a Single Hydrophone | Advised by Akshay Gadre
TEAM 12: MulDar: Unleashing the Potential of Distributed COTS mmWave Radar by Exploiting Cross-Device Channels | Advised by Akshay Gadre
TEAM 13: Simulation-Centric Digital Twins for Scalable Radar Pose Estimation | Advised by Akshay Gadre
TEAM 14: GazeSummary: Exploring Gaze as an Implicit Prompt for Personalization in Text-based LLM Tasks | Advised by Akshay Gadre, Shwetak Patel
TEAM 15: Small Models Struggle to Learn from Strong Reasoners | Advised by Radha Poovendran
TEAM 16: A 2.4 GHz Subcarrier Beamforming Array for Spatially-Selective Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Backscatter | Advised by Matt Reynolds
TEAM 17: ZeroScatterPico: Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Backscatter Using Only Raspberry Pi Pico Digital I/O Pins | Advised by Matt Reynolds
TEAM 18: FPGA Based Energy Histogram Computation For Point-of-Care Radiation Dosimetry | Advised by Scott Hauck
TEAM 19: Thermal MOT: Tracking Beyond the Visible Spectrum | Advised by Jenq-Neng Hwang
TEAM 20: Achieving Alignment Through Adaptive Play: Optimizing Human Objectives Without Observing Them | Advised by Lillian J. Ratliff, Samuel A. Burden
TEAM 21: Before Smelling the Video: A Two-Stage Pipeline for Interpretable Video-to-Scent Plans | Advised by Denise Wilson, Sep Makhsous
TEAM 22: Real-Time FPGA-Accelerated Vision for Airborne Detect-and-Avoid Systems | Advised by Sep Makhsous
TEAM 23: How Much Timing Error Can You Tolerate before Trust Breaks? | Advised by Sep Makhsous
TEAM 24: Fusion Flight Real-time Multipath Detection and Mitigation with ML-Augmented Interferometry | Advised by Sep Makhsous
TEAM 25: Can Silent Solid-State Propulsion Become the New Standard for Urban Flight | Advised by Sep Makhsous
TEAM 26: SHIELD: Smart Hardware Inspection for Early Latency Detection | Advised by Sep Makhsous
TEAM 27: ClairVoyan DAA Systems | Advised by Sep Makhsous
TEAM 28: Natural Mobility | Advised by Sep Makhsous
TEAM 29: Electrically Reconfigurable Spatial Light Modulator Based on a Hybrid OPA-Metasurface Architecture | Advised by Arka Majumdar
TEAM 30: Monolithic Metalens Integrated with Fiber for Miniaturized Endoscopic Imaging | Advised by Arka Majumdar, Johannes Froch
TEAM 31: Programmable Photonic Integrated Circuits | Advised by Arka Majumdar\
TEAM 32: A scalable gallium-phosphide-on-diamond spin-photon interface | Advised by Kai-Mei C. Fu
TEAM 33: Si:Se⁺ Deep Donors as Long-Lived Qubits with Photonic Interfaces | Advised by Kai-Mei Fu
TEAM 34: Toward enhanced single photon collection of single donor qubits in ZnO | Advised by Kai-Mei Fu
TEAM 35: A Lightweight Probabilistic Sequence Model for Efficient Nonlinear LED Channel Equalization | Advised by Lih Lin and Banghua Zhu
TEAM 36: Theoretical Insights into Metallo-DNA Nanowires | Advised by M P Anantram
TEAM 37: Ab-Initio Investigation of Lithium Intercalation and Diffusion in Bilayer Graphene for Neuromorphic Applications | Advised by M. P. Anantram
TEAM 38: DNA or Possible Electrical Components? They Might Be Closer Than You Think | Advised by M.P. Anantram
TEAM 39: Quantum Processor Testbed based on Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond | Advised by Maxwell F. Parsons
TEAM 40: Toward Fault-Tolerant Logical Qubits in a Three-Dimensional Neutral-Atom Array | Advised by Maxwell F. Parsons
TEAM 41: Integrating 2D Materials with Surface Acoustic Waves | Advised by Mo Li
TEAM 42: Fabrication and Structural Analysis of Trilayers for Tantalum Josephson Junctions with Ta2O5 Barriers | Advised by Serena Eley
TEAM 43: System Strength Sensitivity to Power Flow Perturbations in AC Power Systems with Inverter-based Resources | Advised by Baosen Zhang
TEAM 44: A Pathway to Reliable Energy for All: Feasibility and Scalability of Interconnected Mini-Grids in Urban-Proximate Zones in Sub-Saharan Africa | Advised by June Lukuyu
TEAM 45: Cofan Tribal Energy Resilience: FSC Building Clean Energy Design | Advised by June Lukuyu
TEAM 46: Design and Validation of a 1MHz Double-pulse Test (DPT) Methodology for 900V SiC MOSFET | Advised by Jungwon Choi
TEAM 47: Multi Frequency Multi Receiver Megahertz WPT Based On An Impedance Shaped Single Switch Class Φ2 Inverter | Advised by Jungwon Choi
TEAM 48: Feasibility-Aware Structure Learning for Post-Disaster Distribution Network Restoration | Advised by Payman Arabshahi, Daniel Kirschen, Arindam Das
TEAM 49: On the Optimal Deterministic Policy Learning in Chance-Constrained Markov Decision Processes | Advised by Jing Yu
TEAM 50: Stability of generalized optimistic gradient descent ascent (OGDA) | Advised by Jing Yu
TEAM 51: Biomechanical effects of varying transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation amplitude during walking in individuals with spinal cord injury: A case series | Advised by Kim Ingraham
TEAM 52: Using mixed effects models to explore effects of exoskeleton control parameters on human gait features: A secondary analysis | Advised by Kim Ingraham
TEAM 53: Adaptive exoskeleton assistance on a self-paced treadmill using game theory algorithms | Advised by Kim Ingraham
TEAM 54: Optimizing Decoder Learning Rate in Co-Adaptive Myoelectric Interfaces Through Real-Time Performance Metrics, Gaze Biomarkers, and Learned Intent Prediction | Advised by Sam Burden
TEAM 55: MagBall: Magnetic Rollerball for Multi-Scale Contact Interactions on Diverse Surfaces | Advised by Yiyue Luo
TEAM 56: MultiSensKnit | Advised by Yiyue Luo
TEAM 57: WiReSens Toolkit: An Open-source Platform towards Accessible Wireless Tactile Sensing | Advised by Yiyue Luo, Akshay Gadre
Previous Research Showcases
Research Showcase 2025
Research Showcase 2025
Thursday, March 13, 2025
Event sponsored by Apple, Blue Origin, Madrona, and Microsoft
Our ninth annual UW ECE Research Showcase featured cutting-edge research projects from UW ECE graduate students. Visitors had a chance to review posters, speak with the students and their advisers and learn more about the exciting projects underway across the various labs at UW ECE. The Research Showcase was also a perfect opportunity for visiting prospective students to learn more about the Department’s research.
Research Showcase is UW ECE’s premier event for students to showcase the exciting research projects they are working on in labs and groups across all areas of electrical and computer engineering. This event allows our students to present top research in a variety of areas with societal impact. The topics covered include artificial intelligence, medical device technologies, power and energy, transportation, the environment, wireless communications and more.
2025 Research Showcase Projects
1ADVANCED MODELING AND SENSOR NETWORK DESIGN FOR REAL-TIME CHARACTERIZATION OF THE IONOSPHERIC D-REGIONZheng Liu, Xueyicheng Xu, Nicklaus Thompson, Tusty, Nicholas Rich, Mingcheng Yang, Taniish Agarwal, Osman Brown, Daikun Wu Adviser: Alexander V. Mamishev
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2CONVEX CONTROL OF GRID-INTERFACING INVERTERS WITH CURRENT LIMITSLauren Streitmatter, Trager Joswig-Jones Adviser: Baosen Zhang
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3Integrating Social Equity and Climate Vulnerability Considerations into Grid Resilience Planning: Insights from AccraKwame Donkor, June Lukuyu Adviser: June Lukuyu
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4COMPARATIVE STUDY OF E-GAN FETS FOR HIGH POWER AND FREQUENCY WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSIONAntara Banerjee Adviser: Jungwon Choi
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5Powering the last mile: Distributed & Equitable Charging for Electric Three Wheelers in Kolkata, IndiaAhana Mukherjee, June Lukuyu Adviser: June Lukuyu
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7ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF PARALLELED CLASS-PHI CONVERTERS FOR HIGH-FREQUENCY AND HIGH-POWER APPLICATIONSManas Palmal Adviser: Jungwon Choi
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8MODELING AND OPTIMIZATION OF MHZ SELF-RESONANT PLANAR COIL FOR WIRELESS POWER TRANSFERGhovindo Siadari, Jungwon Choi Adviser: Jungwon Choi
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9Online Voltage Regulation of Distribution Systems with Disturbance-Action ControllersPeng Zhang, Baosen Zhang Adviser: Baosen Zhang
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10“My WiFi is not working!”
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11FlowRing: Integrating Microgestures and Surface Interaction for Seamless XR InputJiexin Ding, Ishan Chatterjee, Anandghan Waghmare, Joseph Breda, Yuquan Deng, Bo Liu, Yuntao Wang, Shwetak Patel Advisers: Akshay Gadre, Shwetak Patel
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12TASK ASSIGNMENT STRATEGY OPTIMIZATION FOR POST-DISASTER SCHEDULING OF ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION NETWORKSRan Wei, Arindam Das, Daniel Kirschen, Payman Arabshahi Adviser: Payman Arabshahi Sponsored by: National Science Foundation
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31NAJulie Chen, Tommy Nguyen, Enrique Garcia, Victor Marcenac, Kai-Mei Fu, Max Parsons Adviser: Max Parsons Sponsored by: NIST, Sandia National Laboratories
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32NABooker Hu, Aarjav Jain, Arturo Lopez, Kevin Wu, Ohik Kwon, Robert Thomas Adviser: Max Parsons Sponsored by: QuantumX, NIST
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41NAUthkarsh Keshav Adya, Rui Chen, I-Tung Chen, Sanskriti Joshi, Arka Majumdar, Mo Li and Sajjad Moazeni Adviser: Sajjad Moazeni
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Research Showcase 2024
View photos from the event!
Congratulations to our 2024 Research Showcase winners!
Best Foundational Research
Students (listed alphabetically): Jason Isa, Bohan Wu and Qirui Wu
The team won three Apple iPads for their research on “Effect of Adaptation Rate and Cost Display in a Human-AI Interaction Game.”
Best Applied Research
Students (listed alphabetically): Gokul Nathan
Nathan’s team won a Boeing tour for their research on “Developing and Enveloping and Testing GPS Enabled Inertial Reference Navigation System for Next Generation Flight Computers.”
Best Overall Research
Students (listed alphabetically): Misael Lopez Granados and Raahul Potluri
The pair won a UW ECE Cash Prize for their research on “FlexFPGA: A Case for Multi-Tenant Disaggregated Cloud FPGA Architectures.”
Research Showcase 2023
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View photos from the event!
Congratulations to our 2023 Research Showcase winners!
Best Foundational Research
Students (listed alphabetically): Kai Luo, Rodriguez Pham, Joaquin Santecchia and Alex Sklar
The team won Amazon Frames for their research on “Evaluation of Indoor Localization Methodologies: A Comparative Study of Trilateration, LSTM, and Random Forest Regression.“
Best Applied Research
Students (listed alphabetically): Alvin Cao and Ken Christofferson
The team won a Boeing tour for their research on “EarSteth: Phonocardiogram Reconstruction using Earbuds.“
Best Overall Research
Students (listed alphabetically): Liban Hussein and Marziyeh Rezaei
The pair won a UW ECE Cash Prize for their research on “Secure FMCW LiDAR Systems with Frequency Encryption — EMiT Lab.“
Research Showcase 2022 - virtual poster exhibit
Watch the video recording here!
*Awards were presented to the top two research projects at the end of the event, as determined by a select group of ECE faculty judges. This year’s prizes included a Department-sponsored cash grant to be used toward any research-related travel, and Amazon’s first household robot – the Amazon Astro, kindly sponsored by Amazon’s Lab126! Learn more about the technologies and engineering behind the Astro robot here.
Congratulations to our 2022 Research Showcase winners, Maneeshika Madduri and Luocheng Huang!!
Travel Grant Winner for Best Foundations Theory Research
A Game-Theoretic Model for Co-adaptive Brain Machine Interfaces (poster #8) | Maneeshika Madduri
Amazon Astro Robot Winner for Best Applied Research
Broadband Imaging with Metasurfaces (poster #27) | Luocheng Huang
Luocheng Huang with his Amazon Astro robot prize. photo by Ryan Hoover
2022 RESEARCH PROJECTS
21. Secure Frequency Encryption FMCW LiDAR SystemMarziyeh Rezaei, Liban Hussein
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22. OpenLabCluster: Semi-automatic Keypoints Based Animal Behavior Clustering and ClassificationJingyuan Li, Moishe Keselman
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23. How Does it Sound? Generation of Rhythmic Soundtrack for Human MovementsKun Su, Xiulong Liu
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24. Programmable black phosphorus image sensor for broadband optoelectronic edge computingSeokhyeong Lee, Ruoming Peng, Changming Wu
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25. O-pH: Optical pH Monitor to Measure Dental Biofilm Acidity and Assist in Enamel Health MonitoringManuja Sharma, Lauren K. Lee, Matthew D. Carson, David S. Park, Se W. An, Micah G. Bovenkamp, Jess J. Cayetano, Ian A. Berude
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26. Analyzing neural flow using signal processing on graphsFelix Schwock
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27. Broadband Imaging with MetasurfacesLuocheng Huang
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28. Should Storage-Centric Tariffs be Extended to Commercial Flexible Demand?Lane Smith |
We would like to congratulate the students and their advisers on developing these excellent projects that are here on display, and thank you for sharing your research with us. Thank you to our industry friends for your valuable partnership and we look forward to seeing our relationship continue to grow!
Research Showcase 2021 - virtual poster exhibit
Check out last year’s student research project posters below!
Open the PDF and click on an individual project to view full-sized poster.
Research Day 2020 - virtual poster exhibit
Click here to check out or download the interactive poster program PDF below. To view individual research projects in more detail, browse through the program and click on a project page of interest to open that group’s full research poster in a new browser.
