Department News

2019 GW Engineering Hall of Fame Inductees

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is proud to introduce our alumni who were inducted as members of the GW Engineering Hall of Fame.  The Hall of Fame was established...

The future of data processing

Drs. Sorger and El-Ghazawi are jointly exploring photonic processing and developing an entirely novel set of concepts and systems capable of processing information at the speed of light.

Dr. Payman Dehghanian received the 2019 TechConnect Defense Innovation Award

The GW SmartGrid Lab’s proposed technology “Smart Measurement Units for Online Situational Awareness in Power Grids” has received a 2019...

Raytheon provides additional research funding to Dr. Huang

Dr. Howie Huang has received a $100,000 research grant from Raytheon to support ongoing machine learning research for signal processing in cognitive radios. This year the project has produced one...

Dr. Louri receives NSF grant to develop neural network accelerators with vast speed improvement over existing accelerators

Dr. Ahmed Louri and his research collaborators at Ohio University have been awarded a three-year, $1.1 million National Science Foundation grant for the project “Neural Network Accelerators for...

Dr. Gina Adam received a $14,990 University Facilitating Fund grant from GW

Dr. Gina Adam received a $14,990 University Facilitating Fund grant from GW to work on the project “Experimentally-driven development of a simulator for memristive...

Dr. Ahmed Louri awarded the IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award

Dr. Ahmed Louri was recently awarded the IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award for his leadership to the field and for serving as the General Chair of the 21st IEEE...

Dr. Payman Dehghanian has received a $30,000 grant from Amazon Web Services

Dr. Payman Dehghanian has received a $30,000 grant from Amazon Web Services for the project “Comprehensive Comparison Study of Synchronous vs. Induction Generators for...

Dr. Sorger wins $1.1 million NSA/Army Research Office grant

ECE associate professor Dr. Volker Sorger has been awarded a three-year, $1.1 million grant from the National Security Agency/Army Research Office for the project “Fourier Optics Multiplication...

Dr. Zaghloul and Yangyang Zhao win Best Paper Award at IEEE conference

ECE professor Dr. Mona Zaghloul, her Ph.D. student Yangyang Zhao, and Dr. Yigal Lilach (GW Nanofabrication and Imaging Center) won the Myril B. Reed Best paper award for their paper, “Design and...