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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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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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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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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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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Space-Tolerant Computer Chips

Space is a highly volatile environment. Factors like radiation, extreme temperatures, and debris make outer space a challenging environment to operate technology. In particular, radiation can have ...
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Hacking Team Wins 4th Straight Title at Cybersecurity Competition

For the fourth consecutive year, Carnegie Mellon’s competitive hacking team, the Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), has taken home the top prize at the MITRE Embedded Capture-the-Flag (eCTF) ...
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A New Electrical Approach to Fibromyalgia Pain

For people living with fibromyalgia, pain can feel as though the body's alarm system has been amplified. Touch, pressure, or other sensations that might barely register for someone else can become ...
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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 ...