February 29, 2024
UW ECE alumnus Alvin Graylin envisions our next reality
By Wayne Gillam | UW ECE News UW ECE alumnus Alvin Graylin (BSEE ‘93) is looking ahead. And what he sees coming in technology development over the next decade has given him reasons for both hope and concern, especially when it comes to artificial intelligence and extended reality, or XR, which encompasses virtual reality, augmented…
February 21, 2024
UW ECE Assistant Professor Sara Mouradian receives AFOSR YIP award for quantum computing research
By Wayne Gillam | UW ECE News UW ECE Assistant Professor Sara Mouradian has been awarded a three-year grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, or AFOSR, through its Young Investigator Program, or YIP. The grant will support work in Mouradian’s Scalable Quantum Research Lab, which aims to build, understand and control trapped…
February 14, 2024
Print issues of The Integrator are now available!
Read the latest issue of The Integrator, UW ECE’s annual magazine, which covers faculty, student and alumni news, research and more! The magazine is online and print copies are now available at the ECE front office.
February 2, 2024
UW ECE alumnus Victor Wong pushes boundaries in art and technology
Adapted from an article by Doug Wallack, UW International Advancement In the quiet of vfxNova studios, overlooking Kowloon Bay, the robot dips its paint brush in the pigment, and with smooth, near-silent movements, it extends its single orange arm to apply vibrant cerulean, deep forest greens, and gentle shades of fern to the rice paper…
January 25, 2024
A laser printer for photonic chips
By Wayne Gillam | UW ECE News Photonic integrated circuits are an important, next-wave technology. These sophisticated microchips hold the potential to substantially decrease costs and increase speed and efficiency for electronic devices across a wide range of application areas, including automotive technology, communications, healthcare, data storage, and computing for artificial intelligence. Photonic circuits use…
January 11, 2024
Yann LeCun, VP and Chief AI Scientist at Meta, to give 2024 Lytle Lecture
UW ECE is proud to welcome renowned computer scientist Yann LeCun, who will deliver the Department’s 2024 Lytle Lecture on Wednesday, January 24, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the UW Husky Union Building (HUB) Lyceum. LeCun is Vice President and Chief AI Scientist at Meta and a Silver Professor in the Courant Institute of…
The Integrator 2023–2024
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January 5, 2024
A new kind of chip for wireless communication
Article by Wayne Gillam, Photos by Ryan Hoover | UW ECE News Imagine the roar of a crowd while sitting in a football stadium during a touchdown. At that moment of peak excitement, envision trying to carry on a conversation with a friend on the opposite side of the stadium. You’re using a megaphone to…
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…
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