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.
Department News
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.
Multidisciplinary Team Wins Most Innovative Design Award at RTX Drone Competition
The interdisciplinary senior design capstone team, including students from the CS, ECE, and MAE departments, won the Most Innovative Design Award for their drones.
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...
ECE Brings Research to Life at Second “Blitz” of the Semester
On April 15, the ECE Department hosted its second “ECE Blitz” of the semester to highlight the department’s exceptional, wide-ranging student research.
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.