April 24, 2025
Precision at the smallest scale
Step inside the Washington Nanofabrication Facility, where tiny tech is transforming research in quantum, chips, medicine and more. Story by Chelsea Yates, UW College of Engineering | Photos by Mark Stone, University of Washington Imagine a high-tech workshop where scientists and engineers craft objects so small they can’t be seen with the naked eye —…
April 14, 2025
A professor with superpowers
By Wayne Gillam, photos by Ryan Hoover / UW ECE News UW ECE Associate Teaching Professor Mahmood Hameed has a superpower — his unique ability to connect with students. He also has a super-powerful memory. Hameed memorizes and can recall the name of every student in his classes who talks to him at least once. That’s…
April 8, 2025
Eye-tracking for tailored autonomy
Adapted from story by Amy Sprague / UW A&A; Photos by Dennis Wise / University of Washington The future of building trustworthy autonomous systems may lie in wearing glasses. A&A Assistant Professor Karen Leung, with co-Principal Investigator Anat Caspi, director of the Allen School’s Taskar Center for Accessible Technology, has received a $300,000 National Science Foundation grant…
March 21, 2025
The 2025 International Conference on Machine Learning: Q&A with Professor Maryam Fazel
By Wayne Gillam / UW ECE News Artificial intelligence is all over the news these days. This powerful technology comes with a bright promise to usher humanity into a new era of better health, connectivity, and prosperity. But it also holds the dark potential to disrupt economies, damage social systems, and perhaps even plunge our…
February 24, 2025
Serena Eley — studying superconductivity, magnetism, and disorder in quantum materials
By Wayne Gillam / UW ECE News Imperfection and disorder are part of life. This is true, not only on the level of everyday reality with which we are most familiar, but also within all matter at the smallest scales imaginable. At the nanoscale, ordered atomic lattices that make up solid-state materials contain impurities, dislocations,…
February 18, 2025
Brain-machine interface pioneer Amy Orsborn named 2025 Sloan Research Fellow
Adapted from an article by Arden Clise, UW Bioengineering Amy Orsborn, a Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Bioengineering at the UW, has been awarded a 2025 Sloan Research Fellowship, one of the most prestigious honors awarded to early-career researchers in the U.S and Canada. The competitive fellowship recognizes 126…
February 3, 2025
A camera that can identify objects at the speed of light
By Wayne Gillam / UW ECE News Collaboration can be a beautiful thing, especially when people work together to create something new. Take, for example, a longstanding collaboration between Arka Majumdar, a UW professor in electrical and computer engineering and physics, and Felix Heide, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton University. Together, they…
January 21, 2025
Niveditha Kalavakonda — building an intelligent robot to assist surgeons
Article by Wayne Gillam, Photos by Ryan Hoover / UW ECE News If one were to try to imagine a robot in a medical setting, it could bring to mind images from science fiction movies, such as Star Wars, where medical droids work alongside doctors and surgeons to heal their patients. And in fact, it…
January 2, 2025
The Integrator 2024–2025
Read the latest issue of The Integrator, UW ECE’s annual magazine highlighting faculty and student research, alumni news, and more! To read previous issues of The Integrator, click here.
December 23, 2024
Designing next-generation chips at UW ECE
Article by Wayne Gillam, photos by Ryan Hoover / UW ECE News Microchips can be found in almost every device that uses electronics, from smartphones and microwave ovens to satellites and supersonic jets. These tiny chips are so commonplace we take them for granted, but they are a wonder of modern engineering. A microchip, also…
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