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Electrical and computer engineering extends from the nanoscale level of integrated electronics to gigantic power grids; from single-transistor devices to networks comprising a billion nodes. Our students discover and apply new technologies and innovations in our three nationally-ranked academic degree programs.
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News Highlights
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Grant aims to improve AI models of human choices in complex systems
A National Science Foundation grant will support Cornell research aimed at developing AI models that can better represent human decision-making in cyber-physical systems while remaining interpretable and explicit about uncertainty.
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Cornell Tech professor’s startup receives $1.75 million to improve AI efficiency
Makora, a startup founded by assistant professor Mohamed Abdelfattah, has received a $1.75 million award from the National Science Foundation-supported STRIDE Ventures AI Efficiency Challenge.
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$7.5M grant to establish foundations for visual computing with light
The work is paving the way for hybrid optical-electronic systems that could reduce the energy and computational resources required for AI-driven image analysis and other visual inference tasks.
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Tiny platform creates and directs microbubbles on demand
Set within a 3-millimeter area on a chip, the new device produces hydrogen gas bubbles on a grid of electrodes, then powers the bubbles up with acoustic energy through ultrasound.
Strategic Areas of Research
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Bio-Electrical Engineering
Interfaces for sensing and actuation to help understand the physiological and pathological mechanisms of diseases, and enable advanced robotic interfaces in medicine.
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Circuits and Electronic Systems
Analog and mixed signal circuits, RF transceivers, low power interfaces, power electronics and wireless power transfer, and many others.
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Computer Engineering
Digital logic and VLSI design, computer architecture and organization, embedded systems and Internet of things, virtualization and operating systems, code generation and optimization, computer networks and data centers, electronic design automation or robotics.
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Information, Networks, and Decision Systems
The advancement of research and education in the information, learning, network and decision sciences.
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Physical Electronics, Devices, and Plasma Science
Electronic and optical devices and materials, micro-electromechanical systems, acoustic and optical sensing and imaging, quantum control of individual atoms near absolute zero temperature, and experiments on high-energy plasmas at temperatures close to those at the center of the sun.
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Robotics and Autonomy
Topics include swarm intelligence, embodied intelligence, autonomous construction, bio-cyber physical systems, human-swarm interaction, and soft robots.