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…
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…
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