Electrical and Computer Engineering - Carnegie Mellon University

ECE Demo Days

ECE Demo Days are when ECE celebrates what our students build. Over the final two weeks of the Fall 2026 semester, classes across the department open their doors fo ...
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Illuminating a Path to Career Success

Gauri Joshi began her Carnegie Mellon career in 2017 on the day of a rare solar eclipse. She had pursued her education diligently, interned for major corporations, earned her doctorate degree from MIT ...
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Atomically Thin Transistors Could Transform Computing

For decades, silicon transistors have driven computational power, and scientists have devoted much of their time to making them smaller. That is because shrinking these tiny electronic switches that ...
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José Moura

DSc, 1975 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology M.S., 1973 Electrical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology EE, 1973 Electrical Engineering ...
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Noninvasive Brain Stimulation at Unprecedented Resolution

In 2019, sitting in his office running computer simulations, Chaitanya Goswami, a Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon’s electrical and computer engineering department, noticed something that seemed too ...
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Wireless Beamforming

For ECE Ph.D. alumnus Jingxian Wang wireless signal means more than just communication. Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. alumnus Jingxian Wang has been awarded the ACM SIGMOBILE award for his ...
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Rectennas: converting radio waves into electricity

We are constantly surrounded by energy in the form of electromagnetic waves. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could take advantage of it? In a recently published paper in the journal Nature, a future ...
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The Perfect Shot

Imagine snapping a photo where every detail, near and far, is perfectly sharp—from the flower petal right in front of you to the distant trees on the horizon. For over a century, camera designers have ...
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Anthony Rowe

Anthony Rowe is the Siewiorek and Walker Family Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests are in networked real-time ...
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PPP Wins 8th DEF CON Title

The winningest team in DEF CON’s Capture-the-Flag (CTF) competition history, Carnegie Mellon University’s Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), won its third consecutive title, earning its eighth victory ...
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Software Engineer, Pageant Queen

Last August, Lisa Yan told her colleagues at Waymo, Google’s self-driving car project, that she was taking a week off. Instead of leaving for vacation, she went to a hotel in the San Francisco Bay ...
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Turning Down the Sting of Neurotherapy Treatment

One of the most persistent problems in neurotherapy treatment is making brain stimulation accessible enough for everyday clinical use. The most effective currently available solutions require complex ...