February 24, 2025
Serena Eley — studying superconductivity, magnetism, and disorder in quantum materials
By Wayne Gillam / UW ECE News Imperfection and disorder are part of life. This is true, not only on the level of everyday reality with which we are most familiar, but also within all matter at the smallest scales imaginable. At the nanoscale, ordered atomic lattices that make up solid-state materials contain impurities, dislocations,…
February 18, 2025
Brain-machine interface pioneer Amy Orsborn named 2025 Sloan Research Fellow
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 been awarded a 2025 Sloan Research Fellowship, one of the most prestigious honors awarded to early-career researchers in the U.S and Canada. The competitive fellowship recognizes 126…
February 3, 2025
A camera that can identify objects at the speed of light
By Wayne Gillam / UW ECE News Collaboration can be a beautiful thing, especially when people work together to create something new. Take, for example, a longstanding collaboration between Arka Majumdar, a UW professor in electrical and computer engineering and physics, and Felix Heide, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton University. Together, they…
January 21, 2025
Niveditha Kalavakonda — building an intelligent robot to assist surgeons
Article by Wayne Gillam, Photos by Ryan Hoover / UW ECE News If one were to try to imagine a robot in a medical setting, it could bring to mind images from science fiction movies, such as Star Wars, where medical droids work alongside doctors and surgeons to heal their patients. And in fact, it…
January 2, 2025
The Integrator 2024–2025
Read the latest issue of The Integrator, UW ECE’s annual magazine highlighting faculty and student research, alumni news, and more! To read previous issues of The Integrator, click here.
December 23, 2024
Designing next-generation chips at UW ECE
Article by Wayne Gillam, photos by Ryan Hoover / UW ECE News Microchips can be found in almost every device that uses electronics, from smartphones and microwave ovens to satellites and supersonic jets. These tiny chips are so commonplace we take them for granted, but they are a wonder of modern engineering. A microchip, also…
December 19, 2024
Kim Ingraham — engineering assistive robotic devices for people with disabilities
Article by Wayne Gillam, photos by Ryan Hoover / UW ECE News Millions of people have seen the Iron Man movies, in which the main character is empowered by a robotic exoskeleton. And millions more have watched the scene in Star Wars where Luke Skywalker receives a mechanical, touch-sensitive prosthetic hand that is wired into…
December 9, 2024
A new, 3D-imaging system for early detection of lung cancer
Article by Wayne Gillam, Photos by Ryan Hoover / UW ECE News UW ECE Assistant Professor Sajjad Moazeni and graduate students in his lab are part of a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional research team developing a new, three-dimensional imaging system for early detection of lung cancer. This disease is one of the most common cancers worldwide, and…
December 2, 2024
Max Parsons — engineering quantum technology while making state-of-the-art hardware more accessible for research and education
By Wayne Gillam / UW ECE News UW ECE Research Assistant Professor Max Parsons says that he is interested in big, tough-to-solve science and engineering problems, anything where there might be a large question mark in people’s minds. Perhaps that interest is what drew him to focus on one of the most difficult and complex…
November 25, 2024
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