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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

Kaushik Sengupta named IEEE fellow

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AI slashes cost and time for chip design, but that is not all

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Low-cost system will improve communications among industrial machines

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Predictive models could prevent post-hurricane power failures

A white drone in flight

Drone-assisted laser scanners pinpoint gas leaks from the air

Andlinger Center conference unpacks AI’s double-edged role in the clean energy transition

Faculty

Maria Apostolaki

Ravindra Bhatt

Minjie Chen

Stephen Chou

Nathalie de Leon

Jaime Fernández Fisac

Jason Fleischer

Tian-Ming Fu

Yasaman Ghasempour

Claire Gmachl

Sneha Goenka portrait

Sneha Goenka

Portrait of Andrea Goldsmith

Andrea Goldsmith

Sarang Gopalakrishnan

Andrew Houck portrait

Andrew Houck

Niraj Jha

Chi Jin

Portrait of Antoine Kahn

Antoine Kahn

Sanjeev Kulkarni

Sun-Yuan Kung

Jason D. Lee

Stephen Lyon

Sharad Malik

Iain McCulloch portrait

Iain McCulloch

Prateek Mittal

H. Vincent Poor

Paul Prucnal

Peter Ramadge

Barry Rand

Alejandro Rodriguez

Portrait of Guillermo Sapiro

Guillermo Sapiro

Kaushik Sengupta portrait

Kaushik Sengupta

Mansour Shayegan

James Sturm

Jeffrey Thompson

Hakan Tureci

Naveen Verma

Pramod Viswanath

Mengdi Wang

David Wentzlaff

Gerard Wysocki

Saien Xie