Carnegie Mellon University Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE)

05/10/2023

José Moura, the Philip L. and Marsha Dowd University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received the prestigious IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal for contributions to theory and practice of statistical, graph, and distributed signal processing.

Each year the IEEE Awards Board recommends a select group of recipients to receive IEEE’s most prestigious honors. These are individuals whose exceptional achievements and outstanding contributions have made a lasting impact on technology, society, and the engineering profession.

José Moura, the Philip L. and Marsha Dowd University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received the prestigious IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal for contributions to theory and practice of statistical, graph, and distributed signal processing.

01/19/2023

Can the facial expressions of traders predict the market? Mario Savvides has embarked on a study using facial-recognition algorithms to track the expressions of traders. His goal: finding correlations between mood swings and market swings. Read the Washington Post article here:

Researchers want to use facial recognition to predict price swings.

11/29/2022

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10/04/2022

We will be forever grateful for Dr. Giorgio Coraluppi's generosity he showed to the electrical and computer engineering department. His name will live on in the department as his gift will support multidisciplinary research initiatives that will address emerging global and societal challenges for decades to come.

09/12/2022

We’re thrilled to announce that has been ranked #1 in computer engineering and #8 in electrical engineering in the 2023 US News and World Report Undergraduate Program Rankings.

See the rankings for the best undergraduate computer engineering programs at U.S. News.

09/08/2022

A historic partnership with the Mastercard Foundation will expand the engineering and technology, research, and entrepreneurship programs at CMU-Africa, helping to strengthen Africa’s technology, innovation, and research ecosystem.

08/23/2022

Congratulations to 's Vyas Sekar and fellow researchers on receiving the 2022 SIGCOMM Test of Time Award for their paper "Understanding the impact of video quality on user engagement" which motivate streaming giants like Netflix and YouTube, among others, to develop new technical solutions such as better pro-active bitrate selection, rate switching and buffering techniques, to capture and retain audiences using their platforms.

Professor Vyas Sekar and fellow researchers explore the impact of video quality on user engagement.

07/19/2022

ECE Assistant Professor Marc Dandin has received Oracle’s inaugural Research Project Award for his innovative approach to single-cell cancer research. https://bit.ly/3PiIuV3

07/07/2022

ECE Assistant Professor Vanessa Chen has been selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering's Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering 2022 Symposium, which will bring together 84 accomplished early-career engineers performing exceptional research in a variety of disciplines.

07/06/2022

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon College of Engineering are setting out on a mission to transform constellations of nanosatellites into sophisticated distributed computing platforms, building the foundation for a wide range of innovative applications. https://bit.ly/3P4iNaZ

07/05/2022

ECE Associate Professor, Phil Koopman, a leading expert in Autonomous Vehicle safety, has been selected by the National Safety Council to join its inaugural Mobility Safety Advisory Group.

American roadways are more dangerous today than they have been in decades– especially for those who are not inside a motor vehicle. Even before the surge in traffic deaths during the pandemic, U.S. traffic deaths rose 17% from 2010 to 2019, with cyclist and pedestrian deaths rising almost three ti...

07/02/2022

Congratulations to ECE Assistant Professors Gauri Joshi and Xu Zhang, who have been named to the 2022 class of MIT Technology Review's "Innovators Under 35" list.