December 21, 2023

An engineer who sees the world through butterfly eyes

Article by Wayne Gillam, photos by Ryan Hoover | UW ECE News UW ECE affiliate professor and alumnus Gary D. Bernard (BSEE ‘59, MSEE ‘60, Ph.D. ‘64) has had a long and varied engineering career, one that has been full of unexpected twists and turns. Over the years, it was his ability to seek out…


December 6, 2023

Arka Majumdar named 2024 Optica Fellow

By Wayne Gillam | UW ECE News Arka Majumdar, an associate professor in UW ECE and in the physics department, was recently named a 2024 Optica Fellow for his significant achievements in optics — the branch of physics that studies the behavior and properties of light, including its interactions with matter. Majumdar received this honor…


November 22, 2023

UW ECE welcomes two new faculty members

UW ECE is proud to welcome two new assistant professors, Jungwon Choi and Hossein Naghavi, who joined the Department this fall. Choi conducts research focused on enabling compact and reliable power conversion systems for electrification, as well as extending these systems to provide wireless power transfer. Her work is applicable to a wide range of…


November 16, 2023

Orsborn lab awarded NIH grant to improve brain-computer interfaces for movement disorders

Adapted from an article by Arden Clise, UW Bioengineering Amy Orsborn, a Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Bioengineering at the UW, has received a $3.5 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health. The project will allow the Orsborn lab to build algorithms that use brain-decoder interactions to…


November 8, 2023

UW ECE students in the Professional Master’s Program learn how to pack powerful technology into tiny electronic devices

Article by Wayne Gillam, photos and video by Ryan Hoover | UW ECE News Our days are filled with electronic devices that we depend on to perform tasks and stay connected with one another. Whether it’s the computers we use at work, our smartphones, or personal assistants such as Siri or Alexa, these gadgets have…


November 2, 2023

UW ECE hosts WomXn at the Forefront of ECE Research (WAFER), a day-long event

By Wayne Gillam | UW ECE News On Tuesday, Nov. 7, the University of Washington Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering will host WomXn at the Forefront of ECE Research (WAFER), a day-long event held in the Department once every two years. WAFER showcases research by women and nonbinary people in electrical and computer engineering…


October 18, 2023

Margot Adam — studying public policy to improve renewable energy production, distribution and access

By Wayne Gillam | UW ECE News Much of the dialogue surrounding renewable energy today is about how to efficiently produce more of it through devices such as solar panels, wind turbines and even nuclear reactors. But not as much public attention has been directed toward the economics, policies and regulations surrounding sustainable energy systems….


October 10, 2023

UW ECE is hiring!

The University of Washington Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (UW ECE), located in Seattle, Washington, is proud to announce we are inviting applications for multiple faculty tenure track and non-tenure track positions. We are hiring in all areas of electrical and computer engineering, including integrated circuits and systems, computer engineering, control systems and robotics,…


September 27, 2023

A new kind of chip for quantum technology

By Wayne Gillam | UW ECE News Today, we are living in the midst of a race to develop a quantum computer, one that could be used for practical applications. This device, built on the principles of quantum mechanics, holds the potential to perform computing tasks far beyond the capabilities of today’s fastest supercomputers. Quantum…


September 13, 2023

Akshay Gadre — developing long-range wireless networks for earth, space and underwater

By Wayne Gillam | UW ECE News Most of us are familiar with wireless technology because we use it every day to bring our smartphones, laptop computers, and other mobile devices online. The wireless-enabled Internet of Things is also weaving itself into ordinary life through a wide range of devices, including smart televisions, smart appliances,…



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