Professor writes on white board while talking with grad student.

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Princeton’s electrical engineering program, started in 1889 as one of the first in the United States, remains at the forefront of the field, with research aimed at improving human health, energy and environmental systems, computing and communications, and security. Specific areas of research include the physics of semiconductors; electronic and optical devices; the design of computers and networks; materials science and nanotechnologies; algorithms and structures for information; and biological technologies.

News

Brain cells twining through a mesh of advanced electronics.

New 3D device harnesses living brain cells for computing

Mansour Shayegan elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Annual teaching awards recognize passion, dedication and lasting impact

Majumdar and Wissa are leading growth in ‘humanity-driven robotics’

Laura Futamura and Kalli Zervas, quantum Ph.D. students, lean against each other in a high-tech lab.

‘Fearless’ graduate students are forging a new quantum frontier

Graphic with text "Commendation for Outstanding Teaching".

Faculty commended for outstanding teaching

Events

May 07

8:00 am

2026 Annual Princeton NextG Symposium

Faculty

Maria Apostolaki

Ravindra Bhatt

Minjie Chen

Stephen Chou

Nathalie de Leon

Portrait of Dane DeQuillettes

Dane W. deQuilettes

Jaime Fernández Fisac

Jason Fleischer

Tian-Ming Fu

Yasaman Ghasempour

Claire Gmachl

Sneha Goenka portrait

Sneha Goenka

Sarang Gopalakrishnan

Andrew Houck portrait

Andrew Houck

Niraj Jha

Chi Jin

Portrait of Antoine Kahn

Antoine Kahn

Sanjeev Kulkarni

Sun-Yuan Kung

Stephen Lyon

Sharad Malik

Iain McCulloch portrait

Iain McCulloch

Prateek Mittal

Loren Pfieffer portrait

Loren Pfeiffer

H. Vincent Poor

Paul Prucnal

Barry Rand

Alejandro Rodriguez

Portrait of Guillermo Sapiro

Guillermo Sapiro

Kaushik Sengupta portrait

Kaushik Sengupta

Dhruv Shah

Dhruv Shah

Mansour Shayegan

Tom Silver portrait

Tom Silver

James Sturm

Jeffrey Thompson

Hakan Tureci

Hossein Valavi

Hossein Valavi

Naveen Verma

Pramod Viswanath

Mengdi Wang

David Wentzlaff

Gerard Wysocki

Saien Xie