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.
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
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
Mobile devices, embedded control systems, real-time systems, tools and networks
Faculty: Matt Reynolds, Shwetak Patel, Joshua Smith, Sumit Roy, Michael Taylor
Internet architecture, network economics, distributed systems, developing country infrastructure
Faculty: Radha Poovendran, Sumit Roy, James Ritcey, Payman Arabshahi, Yasuo Kuga
Network security, game theory, statistical modeling, machine learning and control and systems theory
Faculty: Radha Poovendran, Payman Arabshahi
Eight UW graduate students received this year’s Distinguished Dissertation and Thesis Awards. Schwock won in the category of Mathematics, Physical Sciences & Engineering for his work on analyzing and predicting ocean ambient noise.
Xichen Li and Yi-Hsiang Huang, 2nd and 3rd year UW ECE PhD students, have been named winners of the 2021 North America Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF) for their research proposal that looks to solve wireless data congestion issues.
UW ECE faculty members Sajjad Moazeni and Mo Li are leading a multi-institutional research team, which has received a four-year grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a new type of computer chip that uses laser light for AI and machine learning computation.
The new three-course, graduate-level evening program is for students wanting to enhance their skills and knowledge in these exciting, cutting-edge areas.
Associate Professor Kai-Mei Fu featured in UW Magazine on exciting quantum computing collaborations in the Pacific Northwest.
WiBotic has developed battery charging systems that can power autonomous drones and robots on either land or sea wirelessly, without human intervention. Two of the wireless charging systems have won safety approvals in Europe, marking a major milestone for the company.
