Cornell ECE is erasing the boundaries between signals, systems, physics and hardware, and merging core concepts from biology, computer science, mechanical engineering and materials. We see things differently, with visionary science oriented to novel applications.
For years Johnson, who is the Geoffrey S.M. Hedrick Senior Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell, did research into topics at the leading edges of fields created by other people... Read more
The people who write the algorithms that process the massive amounts of information passing through wireless communications systems are not usually the same people who develop the digital integrated... Read more
Senior Lecturer Bruce Land has been teaching Electrical and Computer Engineering students at Cornell since 1997. He began when the professor who had been teaching a microcontroller class retired. Land... Read more
With the ubiquity of handheld devices and the advent of the Internet of Things—networking everything from cars to light bulbs—microsystems, which bring together functionalities such as sensing... Read more
Professor C. Richard Johnson, Jr. has changed his career focus several times by bridging gaps and figuring out what people need—and then making it happen. He recently met with ECE Director Clif... Read more
Over the past several years, Senior Research Associate and Lecturer Carl Poitras has taught and co-taught several different ECE courses including ECE 3030: Electromagnetic Fields and Waves, ECE 3100... Read more
Professor Michael Spencer recently met with ECE Director Clif Pollock to discuss the devaluation of hardware and how a software-focused generation is changing the way students learn. They also... Read more
When Sarah Fischell B.S. ’78, M.Eng. ’79, first stepped foot inside Bell Labs—one of the world’s foremost technology research institutes—she knew she was in a place of legend. It was 1979 and the... Read more
Qing Zhao, professor in Cornell’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, focuses her work on mathematical formulations of, and solutions to, engineering problems. Zhao uses decision theory and... Read more
“I think the most exciting and interesting research problems come from working in multiple disciplines,” says Christoph Studer. As an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at... Read more
