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…
December 19, 2024
Kim Ingraham — engineering assistive robotic devices for people with disabilities
Article by Wayne Gillam, photos by Ryan Hoover / UW ECE News Millions of people have seen the Iron Man movies, in which the main character is empowered by a robotic exoskeleton. And millions more have watched the scene in Star Wars where Luke Skywalker receives a mechanical, touch-sensitive prosthetic hand that is wired into…
December 9, 2024
A new, 3D-imaging system for early detection of lung cancer
Article by Wayne Gillam, Photos by Ryan Hoover / UW ECE News UW ECE Assistant Professor Sajjad Moazeni and graduate students in his lab are part of a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional research team developing a new, three-dimensional imaging system for early detection of lung cancer. This disease is one of the most common cancers worldwide, and…
December 2, 2024
Max Parsons — engineering quantum technology while making state-of-the-art hardware more accessible for research and education
By Wayne Gillam / UW ECE News UW ECE Research Assistant Professor Max Parsons says that he is interested in big, tough-to-solve science and engineering problems, anything where there might be a large question mark in people’s minds. Perhaps that interest is what drew him to focus on one of the most difficult and complex…
November 25, 2024
UW ECE is Hiring!
November 13, 2024
New lens system for endoscopes could allow physicians to see inside the body like never before
By Wayne Gillam / UW ECE News The human body contains a vast, complex, and interconnected web of organic tunnels and passageways that weave their way through the cardiovascular, respiratory, and digestive systems. For physicians, reaching into this maze of arteries, bronchial tubes, and gastrointestinal chambers to view and treat diseased or damaged tissue can…
October 18, 2024
The need for speed — Sajjad Moazeni receives NSF grant to develop a new kind of optical interconnect for data centers supporting AI and machine learning in the cloud
By Wayne Gillam / UW ECE News In data centers today, there is a constant need for speed. And it’s not only inside computer data servers, where one might think it would be. Computing power, capacity, and speed has been increasing at a fast clip for years now in response to market demand, and many…
October 14, 2024
Yong Rui, Corporate CTO and Senior Vice President of Lenovo Group, to give 2024–25 Lytle Lecture
UW ECE is proud to welcome technology leader and artificial intelligence expert Yong Rui, who will deliver the Department’s annual Lytle Lecture on Thursday, October 17, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Paul Allen Center Atrium. Rui is the Corporate Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Lenovo Group. He oversees a $2.5B…
October 10, 2024
Professor Kai-Mei Fu elected American Physical Society Fellow
Kai-Mei Fu, the Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, has been elected an American Physical Society Fellow. Fu was recently elected to the APS Division of Quantum Information Fellowship for foundational contributions to fundamental and applied research on the optical and spin properties of…
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