The ECE Department provides opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students for research in a wide variety of areas. Explore each area and associated faculty members.
Supercomputing
We design and evaluate computing systems that make advanced research, artificial intelligence, simulation, and data analytics faster, more reliable, and more efficient. Our work spans performance measurement, computer architecture, memory systems, operating systems, embedded computing, AI accelerators, and sustainable high-performance computing.
Microelectronics
We develop the materials, devices, circuits, sensors, and hardware systems that power modern electronics. Research in this area includes semiconductor and piezoelectric devices, cleanroom sensor fabrication, microelectronics testing, harsh-environment sensing, RF and photonic circuits, and dependable AI hardware.
RF, Photonics, and Acoustic Sensing
We study acoustic-wave, RF, photonic, and piezoelectric technologies for sensing, signal processing, and advanced electronic devices. Our research supports applications such as gas, fluid, biological, environmental, and field-deployed sensing systems, including custom acoustic monitors and Doppler radar-based sensing.
Energy & Sensing Nanosystems
We create micro- and nanoscale systems that sense, measure, and interact with the physical and biological world. Research includes microfluidics, biological development on chip, ultra-fast micromixers, wireless sensors, energy harvesting, and sensor systems for biomedical, environmental, industrial, and harsh-environment applications.
Artificial Intelligence
We develop intelligent systems that can perceive, learn, explain, and act in complex environments. Our research includes deep learning, computer vision, robotics, edge intelligence, cyber-physical AI, AR/VR systems, UAV swarms, AI hardware acceleration, explainable AI, and human-AI interaction.
Communications
We advance communication and networking technologies that connect people, devices, sensors, and intelligent systems. Research includes wireless immersive video, vehicle-to-everything systems, collaborative edge intelligence, RF and photonic systems, secure edge computing, wireless sensor networks, and high-speed signal processing.
Smart Grid, Power Electronics
We develop technologies for the future electric grid. Our work uses digital twins, cyber-physical energy systems, microgrid control, power electronics, electric vehicle management, grid resilience, and renewable energy integration to make power systems smarter, cleaner, more secure, and more sustainable.
Cybersecurity
We secure the hardware, software, networks, AI systems, and critical infrastructure that modern society depends on. Research includes embedded security, secure edge computing, AI security, hardware-software security, resilient cyber-physical systems, secure AI hardware, and grid security.
Data Science and Engineering
We develop data-driven methods and computing systems that turn complex information into decisions, predictions, and intelligent action. Research connects machine learning, explainable AI, computer vision, robotics, distributed computing, edge intelligence, scientific computing, and engineering analytics.
