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.
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.
Computer Engineering and Architecture
Operating systems, performance analysis, and testbed development, FPGA based computing architectures
Faculty: Visvesh Sathe, Scott Hauck, Matt Reynolds, C.J. Richard Shi, Joshua Smith, Mani Soma, Michael Taylor
Very-Large-Scale Integration (VLSI)
Analog and digital VLSI integrated circuits, devices, and applications, energy management
Faculty: Visvesh Sathe, Jacques Christophe Rudell, C.J. Richard Shi, Mani Soma, 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, Yasuo Kuga, Akshay Gadre
Cybersecurity
Network security, game theory, statistical modeling, machine learning and control and systems theory
Faculty: Radha Poovendran, Payman Arabshahi
Latest News
Eye-tracking for tailored autonomy
UW ECE undergraduate Kyshawn Warren part of NSF-funded team of researchers using eye-tracking technology to help create autonomous systems that can adjust to individual comfort levels.
A professor with superpowers
UW ECE Associate Teaching Professor Mahmood Hameed has a superpower — his unique ability to connect with students. He is known for his exceptional ability as an educator and his passion for teaching.
The Integrator 2024–2025
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!
A new, 3D-imaging system for early detection of lung cancer
UW ECE Assistant Professor Sajjad Moazeni and graduate students in his lab are part of a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional research team developing a new, three-dimensional imaging system for early detection of lung cancer.
Designing next-generation chips at UW ECE
UW ECE faculty are leaders in microchip design and are known internationally for their creative, interdisciplinary approaches to chip design and development.
Researchers
- Luyao Niu
- Ang Li
- Hossein Naghavi
- Mahmood Hameed
- Akshay Gadre
- Karthik Mohan
- Sajjad Moazeni
- Rania Hussein
- Michael B. Taylor
- Sreeram Kannan
- Visvesh Sathe
- Baosen Zhang
- Chris Rudell
- Scott Hauck
- Shwetak N. Patel
- Radha Poovendran
- James A. Ritcey
- Sumit Roy
- C. J. Richard Shi
- Payman Arabshahi
- Linda Bushnell
- Jose Nathan Kutz
- Yasuo Kuga
Research Labs
- Terahertz Integrated MicroElectronics (TIME) Lab
- Emerging integrated technologies & systems (EMiT) Lab
- Networking and Emerging Wireless Technologies (NEWT) Lab
- Intelligent Systems Lab
- Processing Systems Lab (PSyLab)
- Bespoke Silicon Group
- CMMB Vision – UW EE Center on Satellite Multimedia and Connected Vehicles
- Adaptive Computing Machines and Emulators (ACME) Lab
- Network Security Lab
- Fundamentals of Networking Laboratory
- Future Analog System Technologies Lab
- Information Theory Lab
Latest Projects
Representative Publications
- Unsupervised Deep Learning of Compact Binary Descriptors
- Hole Filling with Multiple Reference Views in DIBR View Synthesis
- Signal Dependent Transform Based on SVD for HEVC Intra Coding
- Fast Intra Mode and CU Size Decision for HEVC
- A Data-driven Point Cloud Simplification Framework for City-scale Image-based Localization
- Cloaking the Clock: Emulating Clock Skew in Controller Area Networks