June 9, 2025
Congratulations, Class of 2025!
June 2, 2025
UW ECE Graduation will feature two student speakers
The University of Washington Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering is proud to announce that in addition to UW ECE alumna Thy Tran (BSEE ‘93), two outstanding students have been selected to speak at our 2025 Graduation Ceremony. Niveditha (Nivii) Kalavakonda (Ph.D. EE ‘25) will offer remarks on behalf of graduate students, and Devan Perkash…
May 27, 2025
Yiyue Luo — A I dressed for success
Article by Kathryn M. O’Neill / MIT Technology Review; Photos by Ryan Hoover / UW ECE News Physical tasks such as hitting a ball or drawing blood are difficult to learn simply by listening to instructions or reading descriptions. That’s one reason UW ECE assistant professor Yiyue Luo is developing clothing that can sense where…
May 19, 2025
Thy Tran from Micron Technology to speak at UW ECE Graduation
The University of Washington Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering is proud to welcome UW ECE alumna Thy Tran (BSEE ‘93) as honored guest speaker for our 2025 Graduation Ceremony. Tran is Vice President of Global Frontend Procurement at Micron Technology, a worldwide leader in the semiconductor industry that specializes in computer memory and storage…
May 9, 2025
Unlocking the brain with the fruit fly
Adapted from an article by Danielle Holland, UW Undergraduate Academic Affairs / Photos by Jayden Becles, University of Washington Mary Bun selects a three-day-old Drosophila fruit fly from the incubator and moves to her custom-built behavioral rig. She places the fly in a circular arena beneath a hidden camera and pulls the cloth curtain shut….
May 1, 2025
Shanti Garman — graduate student, instructor, and mentor to aspiring engineers
Article by Wayne Gillam, photos by Ryan Hoover / UW ECE News Shanti Garman, a fifth-year doctoral student in UW ECE, grew up in Berkeley, California. As a young girl, she recalls being interested in science and having a talent for math. She scored high grades, and a state assessment test in middle school placed…
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…
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