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Advanced Integrated Photonics for AI-Era Interconnects, Computing, and Beyond
Di Liang
Professor, University of Michigan
is speaking on April 17, 2026.
NC State ECE had a strong showing in the 2026 U.S. News Best Graduate Schools rankings. The Computer Engineering program rose nine spots to No. 27 nationally and No. 14 among public universities. Electrical Engineering climbed two spots to No. 31.
"These results reflect the strength of our faculty, the quality of our students and the impact of our research and industry partnerships," said department head Veena Misra.
WiECE brought their first annual STEM Stations event to Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School last week, leading four hands-on stations and a WiECE Officer panel for ninth-grade students.
"We were so excited that the students were so engaged and interested in being engineers in the future," said Emma Pollak, president of Women in ECE.
Hats off to this group for inspiring the next generation of engineers. 🐺
🧠 Causal AI meets relational data.
Last Thursday, Vasant Honavar, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Biomedical Data Science at Penn State, joined the Applied AI Futures Seminar Series at Hunt Library to explore relational causal models: a framework for uncovering cause-and-effect relationships in complex, interconnected data.
From social networks to biomedical databases, his work is pushing the boundaries of what AI can infer and how we trust what it tells us. 🔬
Vijay Shah`s NextG Wireless Lab is where hands-on research meets real-world impact, from radio frequency innovation to open radio access networks and beyond. This is what preparing for the future of connectivity looks like at NC State ECE. 📡
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As one of only two institutions to be home to two concurrent NSF Engineering Research Centers, one of three NSF Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research Initiatives, the home of the Department of Energy’s PowerAmerica Institute, leads the only North America IBM Quantum Hub, and home to one of The Microelectronics Commons’ Hubs, we are ranked among the top academic units engaged in scientific research in the United States.
