Visit UCR Return to Campus website - Take the COVID Screening Check survey

Skip to main content
UC Riverside

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

We Engineer Excellence

facultyposition
Multiple Open Rank Faculty Positions
The ECE Department invites applications in multiple tenure-track faculty positions.
Learn more and apply
ECE GSA
GAANN Fellowship for Domestic PhD Students
Multiple funded PhD research positions available. Join a diverse student body working in cutting-edge research!
Learn More

Recent News

Portrait of Ryan Reid, a BCOE alum and president of Boeing Satellite Systems
September 05, 2025
Reaching for the Stars
Ryan Reid, president of Boeing Satellite systems and alumnus, will serve as the inaugural Distinguished Visionary for the Bourns College of Engineering to share his experience and leadership with students and faculty.
Read More »
Bourns Hall
September 03, 2025
NSF grants to advance safer roads, smarter maps, and more trustworthy robots
Three UCR engineering scholars win more than $1 million to advance their research 
Read More »
Ming Liu
August 19, 2025
Professor wins grant to probe how light becomes electricity
Associate professor Ming Liu received a $400,00 National Science Foundation grant to develop a new three-dimensional imaging method capable of revealing electrical hotspots at the nanometer scale.
Read More »
A. Salman Asif
August 07, 2025
UC Riverside and WashU researchers receive NSF awards to improve AI-powered imaging systems
The National Science Foundation has awarded nearly $1 million to computer engineering scholars from UC Riverside and Washington University in St. Louis to advance artificial intelligence, or AI, methods for image generation systems used in science, medicine, and engineering.
Read More »

Research Highlights

Detecting deepfake videos with up to 99% accuracy

Two-pronged technique detects manipulated facial expressions and identity swaps

Quickly optimizing deep neural networks for different devices

New technique makes apps perform better across devices while keeping costs about the same

"Magic wand" reveals a colorful nano-world

Novel color photography using a high-efficiency probe can super-focus white light into a 6-nanometer spot for nanoscale color imaging

Exploring Full Potential of Emerging Hardware Technologies

Spin-mediated Thermal Transport in Quantum Materials

Privacy-Aware Large-Scale Machine Learning

Electromagnetic Interference Shielding with Graphene Composites for 5G-and-Beyond Communication Technologies

Discovering new type of vulnerabilities affecting Graphical Processing Units

Upcycling plastic waste toward sustainable energy storage

More Highlights

Events

Colloquium By Hongyang Li
March 31, 2025 @ 11:00 am
WCH 205/206
"Towards Generalizable World Model In Autonomous Driving"  
View Event »
Colloquium by Dr. Yiwei Lyu
March 06, 2025 @ 11:00 am
WCH 205/206
View Event »
Colloquium by Dr. Wei Xiao
March 04, 2025 @ 11:00 am
WCH 205/206
View Event »
Distinguished Colloquium by Dr. Mark Stiles
February 27, 2025 @ 2:00 pm
WCH 205/206
View Event »
All Events

Final Defenses

FINAL DEFENSE OF DISSERTATION: Subed Lamichhane

| Subed Lamichhane

FINAL DEFENSE OF DISSERTATION: Sohee Kwon

| Sohee Kwon

FINAL DEFENSE OF DISSERTATION: Erick Guzman

| Erick Guzman

FINAL DEFENSE OF DISSERTATION: Keran Ye

| Keran Ye

FINAL DEFENSE OF DISSERTATION: Mohammadamir Kavousi

| Mohammadamir Kavousi

FINAL DEFENSE OF DISSERTATION: Cody Simons

| Cody Simons
More Final Defenses

Twitter Feed

View on Twitter

At a Glance

$9.6M+
New research grants in FY2020/21
Top 20
US News 2021 Best Public Global University
200+, 400+
Total graduate and undergraduate students
14, 13
Fellows of IEEE, NAI and other organizations; NSF CAREER and Young Investigator Awards