Research

The School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has a strong research mission that focuses on:

• Conducting research and developing technologies that address present and future societal problems.
• Advancing the state of the art in areas incorporating technical disciplines from electrical engineering and computer science.
• Collaborating with researchers from other disciplines to address societal grand challenge problems.

The school’s research expenditure is approximately $10M ($301K per faculty) per year. Currently the school has 78 active, on-going research projects worth a total of $12.5M.

Research Areas

• Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
• High Performance Computing (HPC) and Scalable Data Science
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Bioinformatics
• Distributed and Networked Systems
• Power Engineering
• Systems Engineering
• Software Engineering

Research Centers, Groups, and Labs

• Analog, RF and Mixed-Signal Application Group (ARMAG)
• Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Lab
• CASAS Smart Home Project
• Embedded & Pervasive Systems Lab (EPSL)
• Energy Systems Innovation Center (ESIC)
• High Performance Computational Biology Laboratory
• Human-centered Environments for Learning and Programming Lab (HELP)
• Information Research Lab
• Intelligent Systems Group
• Mobile, Pervasive and Sensor Computing (MPSC)
• Power Systems Energy Research Center (PSERC)
• Scalable Algorithms for Data Science Laboratory (SCADS)
• Smart Environments Research Center (SERC)
• Smart Grid Demonstration and Research Investigation Lab (SGDRIL)
• Systems-on-Chip Lab
• WSU-PNNL Advanced Grid Institute