Electrical and computer engineers shape the future through innovation. They develop and improve systems that serve everyday needs of society spanning from high-voltage engineering and sustainable energy, to breakthroughs in wireless technology. Our faculty and students do everything from creating low-cost digital x-ray imagers to combat tuberculosis in developing countries, to building real-time embedded systems to advance the design and reliability of commercial products. ECE - the future is what we do.
Research
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is a dynamic and innovative hub of cutting-edge advancements in technology and engineering. Faculty members lead pioneering research in areas such as robotics, artificial intelligence, communications, embedded systems, and renewable energy, addressing real-world challenges and driving technological breakthroughs.
Resources
Events
PhD Defence Notice: From Mock Environments to Ownership-Aware Compilation: Practical Advances in Low-Level Program Reasoning
Candidate: Siddharth Priya
Date: May 13, 2026
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: EIT 3151-53
Supervisors: Gurfinkel, Arie
PhD Seminar: Learning-based Universal Degradation Model for Downstream Vision Tasks
Candidate: Wenbo (Paul) Yang
Date: May 19, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM
Location: Online
Supervisor: Zhou Wang
All are welcome!
News
Electrical and computer engineering researchers named finalists in international IEEE Competition for breakthrough radar sensing research
Electrical and computer engineering PhD student Yu Cao, post-doctoral fellow Omid Bagheri, and MASc student Veronica Leong — all supervised by Dr. George Shaker, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo — are advancing the future of wireless sensing technology with a breakthrough approach that allows millimeter-wave radar to detect changes in soft, hydrated materials without direct electrical contact.
For their innovative work, the team has been named finalists in the inaugural IEEE AP-S Industry Application Pitch Competition. Their paper, Near-Field Millimeter-Wave Radar Sensing of a Slot-Loaded Dielectric Resonator, was selected among the top 10 submissions from 106 entries worldwide following an exceptionally rigorous review process. The researchers will now present their work live at the 2026 IEEE APS/URSI Symposium, where final winners will be chosen by an expert judging panel.
Electrical and computer engineering professor, Dr. Weihua Zhuang, nominated for two Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest Women of the Year Awards
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Waterloo is celebrating an exciting milestone as Dr. Weihua Zhuang has been named a double nominee for the 2026 Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest Women of the Year Awards.
Recognized for both her lasting influence and continued innovation, Zhuang is nominated for the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM) Award—a rare distinction that reflects the breadth of her impact, from mentoring generations of engineers to shaping the future of communication technologies.
New Waterloo quantum startup gains fast momentum with $10.7 million in funding
A new startup spun out of research at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo is accelerating its push toward commercialization with $10.7 million in dilutive and non-dilutive funding and a public listing after launching just more than six months ago.
QuantumCorewas co-founded by Dr. Christopher Wilson, IQC faculty and Chief Technology Officer, and Eugene Profis, CEO. The company is developing an amplifier that boosts read-out signals produced by a superconducting quantum chip at near absolute zero temperatures and gets the signal into room temperature. This could solve one of the many hard engineering challenges in quantum computing.
“It’s a necessary product for quantum computing companies that are just a few years away from launching computers with thousands of qubits,” says Wilson, who is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.