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Research News
Chao Wang awarded grant to find vulnerabilities in concurrent software — Chao Wang has received a three-year Office of Naval...
New undergraduate research course offered this fall — A new undergraduate research course, "Exploring Pervasive and Physical...
Wireless @ VT hosting annual symposium — Wireless @ Virginia Tech will host its 23rd annual...
Yang named Virginia Tech Scholar of the Week — The Office of the Vice President for Research has...
ECE team awarded NIH grant for breast cancer research — Jason Xuan and Yue (Joseph) Wang have received a...
Capital Region organizations get introduction to ECE embedded security research — CESCA's recent Research Symposium on Embedded Security drew attendees...
ECE student to present at the ACC Meeting of the Minds — William Klima (EE '13) was selected to present at...
ECE alumnus featured in Idaho National Laboratory Annual Report — Juan Deaton (Ph. D. '12) is featured in the...
CPES team awarded patent for method for measuring losses in inductors and transformers — Fred Lee and Mingkai Mu (Ph.D. '13) were granted...
Vringo granted rights to two Wireless@VT patents — Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties (VTIP) has granted Vringo, a...
CESCA hosting inaugural research symposium — The Center for Embedded Systems for Critical Applications (CESCA)...
Space@VT begins partnership with AMSAT — Space@VT has established a formal partnership with the Radio...
Research Mission
ECE's research funding reaches about $25 million yearly and efforts are dedicated to extending the base of knowledge, developing and transferring technology in support of the state's and the country's industrial activity, and providing students with experience in cutting edge pursuits in the field.
Major Research Groups
Biomedical Applications Group
Applications of signals and systems theory to problems in biology and medicine. Major areas of emphasis include systems biology, imaging, and bioinformatics. www.ece.vt.edu/bio |
Center for Embedded Systems for Critical Applications
The focus of the center is development of enabling technologies for embedded systems such as low power design, wireless networking, testing and verification of software and hardware, computer vision, and software/hardware co-design. www.cesca.centers.vt.edu/ |
Center for Photonics Technology
Our sensor research ranges from new sensing mechanisms to nano-scale material synthesis, from device innovations to system implementation, from physical to chemical, medical and biological measurement, from single point to distributed sensing and from normal environment to extreme physical and chemical conditions. photonics.ece.vt.edu/ |
Center for Power and Energy
The center focuses research on the design, improvement, and protection of the world's present and future power grids and equipment. www.ece.vt.edu/power |
Center for Power Electronics Systems
CPES provides global leadership for creating electric processing systems, emphasizing the technical developments and long-term impact on society. CPES is advancing the integrated power module concept to a wide range of next-generation, energy-efficient and environmentally friendly applications. www.cpes.vt.edu |
Configurable Computing Lab
Configurable computing machines provide the computational performance benefits of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), yet retain the flexibility and rapid reconfigurability of general purpose microprocessors. Applications include e-textiles, 1-D and 2-D signal processing, image processing, simulation acceleration, and scientific computing. www.ccm.ece.vt.edu |
Hume Center for National Security and Technology
The center focuses on national security applications of wireless communications, cybersecurity, and data analytics. Our educational programs seek to engage students and expand curriculum in key areas of interest to national security sector employers. www.hume.ictas.vt.edu |
MicrON Group
Spearheading advanced research projects in micro-, nano-, and optoelectronics technology. The focus of the center is on the emerging technologies at the interfaces between Si- and Ge-based processes, III-V semiconductor materials, sensors, MEMS, and photonics technologies and on their co-integration potential. www.micron.ece.vt.edu |
Space@VT
The Center for Space Science and Engineering Research at Virginia Tech (Space@VT) has broad interests and expertise in the fields of space science and engineering. Current research efforts range from ionospheric physics to spacecraft dynamics and design and are concentrated on understanding the interaction between the solar wind and Earth's magnetic field and upper atmosphere.www.space.vt.edu |
Virginia Center for Autonomous Systems
VaCAS facilitates interdisciplinary research in autonomous systems technology. VaCAS hosts research activities spanning every application domain: water, land, air, and space. www.unmanned.vt.edu |
Wireless@VT
Wireless @ VT focuses on multi-disciplinary solutions to the challenges of wireless communications. Areas of current emphasis include: antennas, wireless networking, wireless communications theory and simulations, cognitive radios and software defined radios, digital signal processing, large scale network simulations, VLSI for communication circuits and RFIC design. www.wireless.vt.edu |