The UW Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (UW ECE) is hiring a QT3 User Facility Manager! . Priority will be given to applicants who apply by September 11, 2025:

Congratulations to UW ECE Professor Les Atlas, who has officially retired and was recently appointed professor emeritus. Atlas has been a professor in the Department for 41 years, with an adjunct appointment in the Allen School. Learn more: 

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Congratulations to Shana Moothedath, a former postdoctoral scholar in the labs of UW ECE professors Radha Poovendran and Linda Bushnell. Moothedath recently received an NSF CAREER award! She is now an ECE assistant professor at Iowa State University.

Voltair, a startup co-founded by recent UW ECE alums Ronan Nopp (BSECE ’25) and Hayden Gosch (BSECE ’25), is innovating drone technology to prevent wildfires from igniting along rural power lines. Learn more: 

UW ECE Assistant Professor Jungwon Choi is engineering high-frequency power converters for advanced and emerging technologies, such as electric vehicles, artificial intelligence, robotics, biomedical devices, and renewable energy systems. Learn more:

The UW Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (UW ECE) is hiring an Academic Support Programs Student Assistant / Peer Adviser! .Apply by August 17, 2025, 11:59 pm:

UW ECE affiliate professor and Microsoft signal processing researcher (emeritus) Henrique Malvar discusses his early love of electrical engineering, building circuits from an early age growing up in Brazil, & researching digital signal processing at MIT.

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 alum Bingzhao Li (PhD ‘22) has received an Activate Fellowship to commercialize compact, affordable LiDAR technology he helped develop in the UW Laboratory of Photonic Systems, which is directed by UW ECE and Physics Professor Mo Li. Learn more: 

Prof. Kai-Mei Fu elected to the WA State Academy of Sciences for foundational contributions to fundamental & applied research on the optical & spin properties of quantum point defects in crystals, and for service and leadership in the quantum community.

UW ECE doctoral students Marziyeh Rezaei and Pengyu Zeng have received a 2025 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship for their research aimed at enabling scalable, power-efficient optical links for next-generation data centers. Learn more: 

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. Learn more:

UW ECE is hiring a Front Desk Student Assistant! The individual in the position will be assisting with front desk support at the ECE front office and mail/package processing. Apply via the link below. Application deadline is June 11 at 11:59 p.m. #UWECE.

UW ECE offers our congratulations to the graduating Class of 2025. We wish you all the best for the future! This year's Graduation Ceremony will take place in the Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion on Wednesday, June 11, from 7 to 9 p.m.

UW ECE is proud to announce that two outstanding students have been selected to speak at our 2025 Graduation Ceremony: Niveditha (Nivii) Kalavakonda (Ph.D. EE '25) and Devan Perkash (BSECE '25). Learn more: 

UW ECE undergrad Mary Bun studies multitasking in fruit flies to offer valuable insights into disorders like Parkinson's disease. Her work is inspired by neural engineering research led by UW ECE and UW Medicine Professor Chet Moritz. More at: 

New Seattle startup ElastixAI, co-founded by UW ECE Affiliate Assistant Professor Saman NaderiParizi, has raised $16M to build AI inference tech. Learn more in GeekWire: 

UW ECE alumna Thy Tran from Micron Technology will be our honored guest speaker for the 2025 UW ECE Graduation Ceremony on Wednesday, June 11. Tran has had a successful career in the semiconductor industry, and she is an international leader in her field.

UW ECE doctoral degree candidate Shanti Garman works in the Sensor Systems Lab and is an instructor in the Professional Master’s Program. She is also a mentor to aspiring engineers and first-generation college students. Learn more:

UW ECE students Enrique Garcia, Jared Yoder, & Katharine Lundblad recently toured the Washington Nanofabrication Facility at the UW, where researchers build structures smaller than a strand of hair to power breakthroughs in quantum tech, medicine & chips.