Research
Research Areas
The University of Washington is active in most research areas of electrical engineering.
Our main strengths are listed below.
Graduate application materials can be found under
"Info for Grads".
Advanced Energy Systems and Technologies
Professors Richard Christie, Mohamed El-Sharkawi, and Alex Mamishev.
This group covers the nationally critical technologies of power systems, power electronics and electric drives. Our research projects are highly inter-disciplinary, involving power, sensors, signal processing, communications, control, economics, computer science and engineering, and engineering education.
Advanced Energy Systems and Technologies research labs
Advanced Energy Systems and Technologies research projects
Applied Microtechnology and Micro-Electromechanical Systems
Professors Marty Afromowitz, Karl Böhringer, Bruce Darling, Scott Dunham, Michael Hochberg, Lih Lin, Alex Mamishev, Babak Parviz, and Denise Wilson.
This group focuses on applied microtechnology, which includes microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), and microelectronics. Microtechnology has already revolutionized the way we live-as the basis for the integrated circuits and computer industry, and will continue to exert its impact.
Applied Microtechnology and Micro-Electromechanical
Systems research labs
Applied Microtechnology and Micro-Electromechanical
Systems research projects
Communications and Networking
Professors Josie Ammer, Hui Liu, Radha Poovendran, James Ritcey, and Sumit Roy.
Communications, networking, and related signal processing technologies have revolutionized computing. Our specialties include the implementation of wireless devices and systems, optical communications, multi-user and multi-channel signal processing, routing and access control, modulation, network security, and coding for error correction.
Communications and Networking research labs
Communications and Networking research projects
Integrated Systems
Professors David Allstot, Josie Ammer, Scott Dunham, Scott Hauck, Michael Hochberg, Brian Otis, Richard Shi, and Mani Soma.
Integrated circuits have evolved into whole systems on chips. In descending order of complexity, future systems-on-chip will comprise high-speed and low-power digital gates, analog interface and signal processing circuits, radio frequency transceivers, and MEMS sensors and actuators.
Integrated Systems research labs
Integrated Systems research projects
Photonics
Professors Marty Afromowitz, Karl Böhringer, Bruce Darling, Scott Dunham, Michael Hochberg, Lih Lin, and Babak Parviz.
Micro-optical switching devices for telecommunication applications; portable surface plasmon resonance (SPR) optical bio, chemical sensing systems for field applications in food and drug industry, and in homeland security, department of defense, and environmental agency.
Photonics research labs
Photonics research projects
RF, Antennas, and Remote Sensing
Professors Michael Hochberg, Vikram Jandhyala, Yasuo Kuga, Alex Mamishev, John Sahr, and Leung Tsang.
Our group advances the theoretical, experimental, and computational techniques of efficient electromagnetic methods, remote sensing of the earth, atmosphere, ionosphere, and ocean, high-speed devices and circuits modeling, waves in random media and rough surfaces, and material characterizations, antenna and RF circuit design, and advanced algorithms for radar signal processing.
RF, Antennas, and Remote Sensing research labs
RF, Antennas, and Remote Sensing research projects
Robotics, Automation, Control & Mechatronics
Professors Karl Böhringer, Linda Bushnell, Howard Chizeck, Lawrence Crum, Daniel Dailey, Maryam Fazel, Blake Hannaford, Eric Klavins, Alex Mamishev, and Jacob Rosen.
Our group explores both experimental and theoretical issues in control, design and optimization for biologically-based robotics, haptics, autonomous mobile robotics, surgical robot technology, control engineering for rehabilitation, closed-loop drug delivery, control of jump parameter systems, intelligent transportation systems, and genome automation.
Robotics, Automation, Control & Mechatronics research labs
Robotics, Automation, Control & Mechatronics research projects
Speech, Image, and Video Processing
Professors Les Atlas, Jeff Bilmes, Maya Gupta, Katrin Kirchhoff, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Yongmin Kim, Mari Ostendorf, Eve Riskin, Linda Shapiro, and Ming-Ting Sun.
Signal processing touches a large variety of engineering problems, from communications to human-computer interaction to medical signal information processing. Our main application areas include speech, image, and video processing, with theoretical foundations in graphical models, time-frequency analysis, models of symbolic time series, pattern recognition, and data compression.
Speech, Image, and Video Processing research labs
Speech, Image, and Video Processing research projects
Updates or corrections to this page should be sent to the Associate Chair for Research, Sumit Roy.
