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.

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

Wireless Communication

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

Faculty: Radha Poovendran, Sumit Roy, James Ritcey, Payman Arabshahi, Yasuo Kuga

Cybersecurity

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

Faculty: Radha Poovendran, Payman Arabshahi

Latest News

A ‘lighthouse’ for engineering talent in the Middle East

UW ECE alumna Laila Abudahi (MSEE ‘16) is using her education and career experience to connect young engineers in Palestine and the Arab region with high-paying jobs in the tech sector.

UW ECE alum Vikram Iyer earns SIGMOBILE Doctoral Dissertation Award for engineering systems inspired by nature

Recent UW ECE graduate Vikram Iyer has been recognized by ACM SIGMOBILE for his creative and inspiring work building bio-inspired networking and sensing systems.

UW ECE welcomes seven new faculty members

Beginning this summer and extending through winter quarter next year, UW ECE is welcoming seven new faculty members who bring a wealth of expertise in a wide range of technical areas and fields of study.

UW ECE launches new online certificate program in GPU-Accelerated Computing and Visualization

The three-course graduate-level program will launch this upcoming autumn quarter, with students learning the theory, practical hands-on skills and “black art” techniques required to develop optimized parallel GPU software.

AI for engineering

At the new AI Institute in Dynamic Systems, UW ECE and Applied Mathematics Professor Jose Nathan Kutz is part of a multidisciplinary UW research team at the forefront of artificial intelligence, machine learning and engineering education.

Liban Hussein awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

First-year doctoral student Liban Hussein, who works in the lab of UW ECE Assistant Professor Sajjad Moazeni, was recently awarded an opportunity to take part in the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).