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Feb 5 1:00 pm

ESE Defense | Bharat Singhal at Uncas A. Whitaker Hall

Mar 28 10:00 am

ESE Seminar Series | Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia at Preston M. Green Hall

Autonomous vehicles are susceptible to sensor malfunctions and mechanical failures that might make them unable to detect and appropriately respond to real-time conditions. They also face the threat of cyberattacks in which bad actors might spoof the car’s location or fabricate the presence of an obstacle, causing the vehicle to behave dangerously. (Image: iStock)

Clark to enhance safety of autonomous systems, even when under attack

Andrew Clark received a National Science Foundation grant to ensure the safety and reliability of drones, driverless cars and surgical robots.

01.14.2025

According to the National Institutes of Health, between 50 and 70 million Americans have chronic sleep disorders. The most common sleep disorder, insomnia, affects about one-third of American adults. (Photo by Indra Projects on Unsplash)

Engineering better sleep

Jr-Shin Li plans to develop advanced mathematical models to decode circadian rhythms and tackle chronic sleep disorders.

01.07.2025

Kamilov receives Pierre-Simon Laplace Early Career Technical Achievement Award

Ulugbek Kamilov won the 2024 Pierre-Simon Laplace Early Career Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

12.20.2024

Li named IEEE Fellow

Jr-Shin Li, professor of electrical & systems engineering, joins prestigious group.

12.09.2024

Mack was a Marshall finalist

Dylan Mack seeks to address complicated public health issues through data science.

12.09.2024

Clockwise from top left: Bai, Jiao, Martin, Yang, Wu and Pappu

Six McKelvey Engineering faculty among world’s highly cited researchers

The faculty rank among the top 1% by citations for their field in the past decade.

11.19.2024

Students (left to right) Michaela Sewall, Yvette Gerber, Daniel Ruskin and Emily Zeiberg work together on a redistricting exercise as Ben Wormleighton observes. (Credit: Sid Hastings)

Engineering students take on social choice

ESE Special Topics class explores communal decision making.

11.15.2024

This photonic chip has several thin films integrated into its structure to provide multiple functionalities, such magneto-optical and electro-optical modulation, and more efficient processing capabilities. (Image: Sang-Hoon Bae)

Data processing at the speed of light

Sang-Hoon Bae and Lan Yang receive NSF grant to overcome data processing bottleneck with integrated photonics.

11.14.2024

(Image: Aimee Felter/Washington University)

Engineering brain dynamics with Addison Schwamb and BethAnna Jones

Graduate students Addison Schwamb and BethAnna Jones use math as a language to describe how the brain works, explore possible applications to patient care.

11.13.2024