Research
The level of externally-funded research in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has increased dramatically in recent years. The principal research thrusts in the ECE Department are as follows:
Technology Domains
- Acoustics, Communications, and Signal Processing
- Applied acoustics (underwater engineering, electroacoustics, marine mammal bioacoustics)
- Signal processing (DSP, speech processing and intelligibility, detection and estimation theory)
- Wireless and multimedia communications
- Dynamic spectrum access and cognitive radio
- Electromagnetics and Photonics
- Remote sensing
- Photonic integrated circuits
- RF Photonics
- Cybersecurity and Reliability
- Network and system security
- System reliability engineering
- Risk analysis
- Internet of Things (IoT) & Embedded Systems
- Cyber-physical systems
- Data science & artificial intelligence
- Embedded system design
- Sensor networks & devices
Application Domains
- Marine & Underwater
- Underwater acoustics, communications and sonar
- Underwater sensor arrays and networks
- Marine mammal bioacoustics
- Healthcare & Quality of Life
- Body area networks
- Speech processing and intelligibility
- Biomedical computing
- Smart Infrastructure
- Connected vehicles
- Smart homes & grids
- Artificial intelligence
- Defense & Aerospace
- Communications and sensing
- Embedded systems security
- Software intensive systems reliability