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A quantum physicist focused on protecting and controlling quantum information, Wang will begin his appointment in January 2026.

Alumnus Joao Cerqueira shares how his time at Columbia prepared him for a career designing next-generation chips at Apple — and the importance of hands-on education in shaping future hardware engineers.

From technical know-how to blue-sky thinking, Columbia Engineers are lending their expertise more widely than ever before.

The award-winning study demonstrates a privacy-preserving, real-time edge computing system that uses street cameras and on-device intelligence to warn pedestrians of danger seconds before potential collisions.

The award recognizes a breakthrough paper that bridges machine learning and control theory by enabling stable control without full system models.

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Fabricated as a single chip, the new implant is orders of magnitude faster and smaller than today’s state-of-the-art brain-computer interfaces, offering an opportunity for more efficacious treatment of a number of neurological conditions.

IEEE honors the Columbia Electrical Engineering team’s groundbreaking three-phase soft-switched inverter design with its top prize paper award.

Study led by EE Prof. Nima Mesgarani reveals that modern speech models learn deep grammatical structure from audio alone, challenging long-held assumptions in speech and language AI.

Columbia Engineering honors donors and its newest named professors with a dinner featuring the Archimedes Lecture with Wang Family Professor Steven Feiner.

Columbia Electrical Engineering alumni and faculty are central to a new NSF-funded project solving network latency to make therapeutic AR/VR games more responsive.

Two new publications in ‘Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing’ and ‘Infrastructures’ introduce a framework for learning damage embeddings from laboratory structures and demonstrate real-time, zero-shot monitoring of unseen fully operational in-service bridges using cepstral features and different neural network paradigms.

Matthias Preindl, director of the Center of Advanced Electrification at Columbia University and EE professor featured in the Washington Post article, commenting on how electric cars and trucks can use their huge batteries to power your home during a blackout.

Building on years of collaboration Rutgers, Duke, and Columbia Engineering have been awarded a new $3.8 million NSF grant for COSMOS³, a project to expand and enhance New York City’s urban wireless testbed in West Harlem, enabling research in the areas of 6G wireless networks, smart cities, edge AI, and optical networking.