The Department of Electrical Engineering

Our Department has a vibrant and diverse research program spanning various areas within the discipline. Our research program can be roughly summarized under the following main areas:

• Biological/Biomedical Engineering
• Communications, Information Theory, Networking, Networked Systems
• Computer Architecture, Multicore Systems, Integrated Circuits
• Large-Area/Flexible Electronics for Display/Sensing/Energy Applications
• Mid-Infrared Photonics, Lasers, and Sensors
• Nanoscale Materials/Devices for Sensing and Energy Applications
• Organic Materials and Devices
• Photonic Systems, Non-linear Optics, Quantum Optics
• Physics of Electronic Materials and Nanomaterials
• Quantum Information/Quantum Computing
• Security in Computing and Communications
• Signal Processing, Machine Learning, and Optimization

The Department interacts closely with the other departments in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, with math and science departments at Princeton, and with the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM), the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics (PACM), and the Neuroscience Institute. For example, the Department has interdisciplinary research links to Computer Science (in the areas of computer engineering and networking), Physics (in the area of quantum phenomena and information), Civil and Environmental Engineering (in the area of sensor networks), Neuroscience (in the area of machine learning and data analysis for reverse-engineering the human brain), Biology (in the areas of low-power implantable circuits, sorting molecules on silicon chips, and electronics on plastic substrates for biological applications). The Department also has excellent relationships with neighboring companies and industrial laboratories, where students and faculty can interact on joint projects.

In addition, opportunities for research are enhanced by several federally funded interdisciplinary research centers at Princeton, including:
• Princeton Center for Complex Materials (PCCM), a National Science Foundation Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (NSF-MRSEC)
• The Center for Mid-InfraRed Technologies for Health and the Environment (MIRTHE), an NSF Engineering Research Center
• The Gigascale Systems Research Center (GSRC), a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Microelectronics Advanced Research Corp (DARPA/MARCO) focus center

You can explore our research programs in greater detail by browsing the faculty pages or following the Research Directory link at left.