Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering faculty are at the forefront of AI research and education, with professors professors Amit Roy-Chowdhury and Vassilis Tsotras leading the interdisciplinary Riverside Artificial Intelligence Research (RAISE) Institute.

Ran Cheng, an Assistant Professor of ECE, has recently received a $250,000 award from the W.M. Keck foundation, along with three renowned experimentalists. The project is led by Prof. Enrique Del Barco from the University of Central Florida. The W. M. Keck Foundation announces its Science and Engineering Grants twice each year, in June and December, respectively. In June 2024, only six teams were awarded this highly competitive grant: https://www.wmkeck.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Abstracts_J24_SE.pdf The team Ran Cheng has joined proposed a rather bold idea to explore the exciting

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering graduate researcher Shucheng Guo and assistant professor Xi Chen's research could lay the groundwork for the electronics industry to develop devices that overheat less, process information faster, and are more energy-efficient than today’s technology.

Annie Du has turned her passion for fighting off hackers into a successful career as a cybersecurity expert and Netflix engineer