Data Sciences are fundamentally transforming nearly every area of engineering, science, and society. The University of Washington’s Electrical & Computer Engineering faculty are making fundamental contributions to many different areas of data sciences, including machine learning, AI, optimization, information theory, computer vision, and speech and natural language processing. Many of our data sciences faculty hold secondary appointments in applied mathematics, computer science and engineering, bioengineering, and other departments, and are active participants in cross-disciplinary institutes such as UW’s eScience Institute, the Allen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and the Bloedel Hearing Research Center.
Artificial intelligence (AI), mathematical optimization and information theory.
Faculty: Katrin Kirchhoff, Jeffrey A. Bilmes, Les Atlas, Maryam Fazel, Sreeram Kannan, Mari Ostendorf, Ming-Ting Sun, Eli Shlizerman, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Linda Shapiro, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Shwetak Patel, Radha Poovendran
Theory, algorithms, signal processing systems and signal processing applications (i.e. biomedical, geophysical signals and synthetic signals).
Faculty: Ming-Ting Sun, Les Atlas, Mari Ostendorf, Brian A. Nelson, Jenq-Neng Hwang
Speech recognition, natural language understanding, computational linguistics and web-based language techniques.
Faculty: Mari Ostendorf, Katrin Kirchhoff, Jeffrey A. Bilmes, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Les Atlas
Video analysis, surveillance, object recognition, activity recognition, medical image analysis and video compression
Faculty: Ming-Ting Sun, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Linda Shapiro, Jeffrey A. Bilmes, Eve Riskin, Radha Poovendran
This fall, UW ECE will begin offering a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering (BSECE). The new degree program provides students with increased flexibility and is highly adaptable to advances in technology.
UW ECE teams won top prizes in the 2022 GIX Innovation Competition and Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge for their work on a low-energy laundry technology and phone LiDAR scanning for custom fitted, low-cost ostomy wafers.
Professor Joshua Smith is the inaugural director of the new UW + Amazon Science Hub, which will advance innovation in core robotics, AI technologies and their applications.
A strong sense of social responsibility and empathy for other people has contributed to UW ECE Affiliate Professor Henrique (Rico) Malvar’s career success and motivated his longtime engagement with and support for the Department.
UW ECE Professor Maryam Fazel, who leads the Institute for Foundations of Data Science, provides an overview of the Institute and how it is tackling some of the most difficult challenges data science faces today.
Read this year's issue of The Integrator — UW ECE's flagship, annual magazine highlighting the Department's extraordinary faculty research, student achievements, alumni stories, special events and more!
