December 2, 2025
UW ECE Professor Maryam Fazel receives 2025 Farkas Prize
The University of Washington Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering congratulates Professor Maryam Fazel, recipient of the 2025 Farkas Prize from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, or INFORMS, Optimization Society. She accepted the award in late October during the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. The Farkas Prize is an annual…
November 26, 2025
Irene Peden — A pioneer for women in engineering
Article by Wayne Gillam / UW ECE News UW ECE Professor Emerita Irene Peden helped to create pathways to success for women in engineering during a time when there was no clear or easy road. An exceptional researcher and educator with confidence, grit, and a can-do attitude, Peden broke down barriers and confronted institutionalized sexism during…
November 12, 2025
UW ECE Entrepreneurial Fellows Program helps turn research advances into real-world products
Article by Wayne Gillam, Photos by Ryan Hoover / UW ECE News According to the UW’s innovation hub, CoMotion, UW ECE consistently ranks among the University’s leading generators of startup companies. The Department has maintained this distinction for decades, alongside its strong academic reputation and longstanding history of supporting entrepreneurship. But UW ECE isn’t resting…
November 6, 2025
UW ECE is Hiring!
Applications are now open for two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions at UW ECE. Visit the link below to apply via Interfolio. Deadline: December 15, 2025 Job Openings
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…
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