Department News

Ahmed Louri

Professor Louri Honored as IEEE Life Fellow for a Lifetime of Innovation and Service

Professor Ahmed Louri's profound impact on computing and the IEEE community has earned him one of the highest honors in his field: IEEE Life Fellow membership.

 Anousheh Ansari speaking at GW in 2011.

GW Engineering Alumna Anousheh Ansari on 30 Years of XPRIZE

GW Engineering alumna Anousheh Ansari reflects on XPRIZE’s impact, from space exploration to carbon removal, in a Vox feature on three decades of groundbreaking innovation.

Attendees listening to Edward Knightley's presentation

Professor Tian Lan Plays Key Role in INFOCOM 2025

ECE professor Tian Lan invited researchers from around the globe to the Science & Engineering Hall for a technical program committee meeting and the inaugural INFOCOM Distinguished Lectures...

Students standing in front of their country's food dish

Engineering Across Borders: Grad Bites & Global Flavors

The ‘Engineering Across Borders: Grad Bites & Global Flavors’ event brought together a vibrant audience in the Lehman Auditorium to celebrate diversity, equity, and inclusion in engineering.

Seth Kay

Undergraduate Research Accelerates Machine Learning Efficiency

Seth David Kay, a junior at GW, presented his research on accelerating Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication for ML at the IEEE HPEC Conference, enhancing computation efficiency in complex data...

Dr. Tian Lan

Enhancing the Security of Mixed Reality Technologies

In a collaborative effort supported by DARPA, ECE Professor Tian Lan is working to build MR systems to safeguard human users from cognitive attacks and offer verifiable cognitive guarantees.

Transforming Macroeconomic Analysis with Hysteresis Modeling Techniques

In an unexpected collaboration, ECE Professor Can Korman lended his expertise in magnetic hysteresis to shed light on hysteresis in macroeconomics in the new book, Theory of Macroeconomic Hysteresis.

Drone delivering aid

Drones Could Reduce Opioid Overdose Response, GW Study Finds

Decision Sciences and ECE professor Miguel Lejeune’s new study explores using drones to reduce response times and improve survival rates during opioid overdoses, based on Virginia Beach data.

View of US Capitol building

NRO Director Chris Scolese Speaks on Agency Priorities and Challenges

NRO Director and GW alumnus Chris Scolese discusses agency priorities, acquisitions, and emerging threats in a CSIS webinar. Watch the full conversation online.

Ahmed Louri

Shaping the Future of Computing

Prof. Ahmed Louri was honored for his constant innovation and profound impact on the field of computing, securing an IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Award and a patent for a novel fault-tolerant...