Data Sciences are fundamentally transforming nearly every area of engineering, science, and society. The University of Washington’s Electrical & Computer Engineering faculty are making fundamental contributions to many different areas of data sciences, including machine learning, AI, optimization, information theory, computer vision, and speech and natural language processing. Many of our data sciences faculty hold secondary appointments in applied mathematics, computer science and engineering, bioengineering, and other departments, and are active participants in cross-disciplinary institutes such as UW’s eScience Institute, the Allen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and the Bloedel Hearing Research Center.
Artificial intelligence (AI), mathematical optimization and information theory.
Faculty: Lillian Ratliff, Katrin Kirchhoff, Jeffrey A. Bilmes, Les Atlas, Maryam Fazel, Sreeram Kannan, Mari Ostendorf, Ming-Ting Sun, Eli Shlizerman, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Linda Shapiro, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Shwetak Patel, Radha Poovendran
Theory, algorithms, signal processing systems and signal processing applications (i.e. biomedical, geophysical signals and synthetic signals).
Faculty: Ming-Ting Sun, Les Atlas, Mari Ostendorf, Brian A. Nelson, Jenq-Neng Hwang
Speech recognition, natural language understanding, computational linguistics and web-based language techniques.
Faculty: Mari Ostendorf, Katrin Kirchhoff, Jeffrey A. Bilmes, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Les Atlas
Video analysis, surveillance, object recognition, activity recognition, medical image analysis and video compression
Faculty: Ming-Ting Sun, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Linda Shapiro, Jeffrey A. Bilmes, Eve Riskin, Radha Poovendran
Quantum information systems, quantum algorithms for complex systems, quantum hardware
Faculty: Rahul Trivedi
The Remote Hub Lab, founded and led by UW ECE Associate Teaching Professor Rania Hussein, allows students to access physical engineering equipment from anywhere in the world.
Beginning this fall and extending through autumn quarter 2025, UW ECE is welcoming six new faculty members who will bring a wide breadth of knowledge and technical expertise to the Department.
After almost a decade developing products built on artificial intelligence, data science, and machine learning, UW ECE alumna Arpita Ghosh Dacy (BSEE '10) was introduced to beauty pageants, which led her down an unexpected road that culminated in being crowned Mrs. Universe America 2023–24.
This Certificate Program is designed for working professionals and graduate students. The three-quarter, online course of study takes students on a deep dive into the graphics processing unit, or GPU, a critical piece of modern computer architecture.
The UW ECE Awards recognize exceptional teaching, research, and entrepreneurship efforts in the Department as well as outstanding mentorship, student impact, and collaborative work.
UW ECE and Allen School Professor Shwetak Patel was recently inducted into the SIGCHI Academy for his contributions in health, sustainability and interaction research. Patel explores how technology can be incorporated with medicine that utilizes sustainable resources.
