nVent Names GW Engineering Alumna Diane Leopold to Board of Directors
nVent Electric appoints industry leader Diane Leopold to its boards, reinforcing its strategic growth with over 30 years of utility sector expertise.
Department News
Alumna Jingdi Chen Joins University of Arizona as Assistant Professor
Jingdi Chen, Ph.D. ’24, will join the University of Arizona as an assistant professor this fall, where she will lead groundbreaking research in multi-agent systems and AI.
GW Researchers Advance Brain-Inspired AI with Study on Spiking Neural Networks
GW Engineering’s Gina Adam and Joseph Kilgore improve training for brain-inspired AI systems by exploring biologically informed neuron ratios in spiking neural networks.
Students Gain Hands-On Chip Design Experience in Microfabrication Couse
Through a partnership with NIST, students in Professor Gina Adam’s class designed and integrated new structures on microchips using real-world nanofabrication tools.
Prompts to Large Language Models Have Evil Twins
ECE Prof. Howie Huang and PhD students Rimon Melamed, Lucas H. McCabe, and Yejin Kim uncovered human-readable prompts to LLMs can often be substituted with seemingly nonsensical strings that produce...
ControlTheory CEO and GW Engineering Alumnus Bob Quillin Featured in Pulse 2.0
GW Engineering alumnus Bob Quillin discusses how ControlTheory boosts enterprise observability by leveraging controllability, cutting costs, and optimizing outcomes.
Kabbani Named Chairman of Lebanon’s Council for Development and Reconstruction
Reported in Business News, electrical engineering alumnus Mohamed Ali Kabbani has been appointed chairman of Lebanon’s Council for Development and Reconstruction.
Researchers Advance Methods for Detecting Coordinated Social Media Posting
GW Engineering researchers co-authored a study that advances methods to detect coordinated link sharing on Facebook, helping expose manipulation by malicious actors.
Tian Lan Delivers Keynote at Bowie State’s Inaugural AI & Data Science Conference
ECE Professor Tian Lan joined tech leaders at Bowie State’s first AI & Data Science Conference, presenting research on multi-agent decision-making in the open world.
Researchers Transform Memristor Flaws into AI Efficiency Gains
Prof. Gina Adam and student Osama Yousuf pioneered fault-tolerant AI hardware using layer-ensemble averaging, paving the way for energy-efficient computing at scale.