October 23, 2025

IFDS workshop brings together experts to help make AI more reliable, robust, and trustworthy

By Wayne Gillam / UW ECE News Artificial intelligence has quickly become an indispensable part of modern life. Today, AI systems support search engines, streaming services, social media, and various online tools and products over a wide range of devices. AI also enables behind-the-scenes automation in a vast array of fields, including security, finance, transportation,…


September 25, 2025

New study shows that electrical stimulation can reduce brain damage after stroke

By Wayne Gillam / UW ECE News Azadeh Yazdan has a clear vision for her neural engineering research — to translate this work into clinical applications that can make a positive and even profound difference in people’s lives. And Yazdan, who is the Washington Research Foundation Innovation Associate Professor of Neuroengineering in UW ECE and…


September 10, 2025

Ultra-flat optic pushes beyond what was previously thought possible

By Wayne Gillam / UW ECE News Cameras are everywhere. For over two centuries, these devices have grown increasingly popular and proven to be so useful, they have become an indispensable part of modern life. Today, they are included in a vast range of applications — everything from smartphones and laptops to security and surveillance…


August 26, 2025

A distinguished career, marked by contributions to machine learning research and education

On July 5, 2025, UW ECE Professor Les Atlas officially retired and was appointed professor emeritus. Atlas has been a professor in the Department for 41 years, with an adjunct appointment in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. During his time at the UW, Atlas has made many important contributions to…


August 14, 2025

Fighting fire before it sparks

Adapted from an article by Ed Kromer / UW College of Engineering One night last fall, Ronan Nopp and Hayden Gosch were brainstorming names for their newly formed startup that would deploy autonomous, self-charging drones to inspect rural power lines. After the two electrical and computer engineering seniors debated — and dismissed — scores of…


August 7, 2025

Jungwon Choi — engineering power conversion systems for emerging technologies

By Wayne Gillam / UW ECE News We live in a world powered by electricity. But few people stop to think about where that power comes from, let alone how it is transformed to run the devices they use every day. Electrical energy can be generated from fossil fuels or renewable sources, such as the…


July 31, 2025

Hossein Naghavi — developing high frequency electronics for imaging, sensing, and communication

Article by Wayne Gillam, photos by Ryan Hoover / UW ECE News Nestled between the microwave frequencies commonly used in cell phones and higher frequencies used in optical technologies is a new frontier — a range of electromagnetic waves known to scientists and engineers as the “terahertz band.” Wave frequencies in this band span 100…


July 24, 2025

Bingzhao Li receives Activate Fellowship to commercialize compact, affordable LiDAR technology

By Wayne Gillam / UW ECE News Light detection and ranging, or LiDAR, is a remote sensing technology used for creating high-resolution 3D maps and models of the environment. It has many uses and can provide valuable information beyond what can be seen with a conventional camera. For example, self-driving cars can use LiDAR to…


July 17, 2025

Professor Kai-Mei Fu elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences


June 23, 2025

Engineering research matters



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