UW ECE’s Computer and Network research includes computer architecture and computer system engineering, VLSI, embedded computing, wireless networks, and wireless communication research. Several of UW ECE’s Computers and Networking faculty hold joint and secondary appointments in computer science and engineering and teach jointly in the Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering departments.
Operating systems, performance analysis, and testbed development, FPGA based computing architectures
Faculty: Scott Hauck, Matt Reynolds, C.J. Richard Shi, Joshua Smith, Michael Taylor
Analog and digital VLSI integrated circuits, devices, and applications, energy management
Faculty: Jacques Christophe Rudell, C.J. Richard Shi, Michael Taylor
Mobile devices, embedded control systems, real-time systems, tools and networks
Faculty: Matt Reynolds, Shwetak Patel, Joshua Smith, Sumit Roy, Michael Taylor, Akshay Gadre
Internet architecture, network economics, distributed systems, developing country infrastructure
Faculty: Radha Poovendran, Sumit Roy, James Ritcey, Payman Arabshahi, Akshay Gadre
Network security, game theory, statistical modeling, machine learning and control and systems theory
Faculty: Radha Poovendran, Payman Arabshahi
UW ECE and Applied Mathematics Professor Nathan Kutz has been named to the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list, a distinction that celebrates researchers whose work has shaped their fields.
Read the latest issue of The Integrator, UW ECE’s flagship annual magazine highlighting the Department’s extraordinary faculty and student research, achievements, alumni stories, special events and more from this past year!
The Institute for Foundations of Data Science brought AI and machine learning experts together from across the nation to explore the mathematical, statistical, and algorithmic underpinnings of modern AI systems — advancing theory to better understand and improve AI technology.
UW ECE Assistant Professor Hossein Naghavi directs the Terahertz Integrated MicroElectronics Lab at the UW, where he designs microchips that use high frequency terahertz electronics built using integrated circuit design and electromagnetics techniques.
UW ECE doctoral students and Fellowship recipients Marziyeh Rezaei (left) and Pengyu Zeng (right) are conducting research aimed at enabling scalable, power-efficient optical links for the next generation of edge-cloud data centers supporting 6G infrastructure.
UW ECE assistant professor Yiyue Luo is developing smart clothing that can sense where a person is, know what movement is needed to perform a task, and provide physical cues to guide performance.
