2020 Electrical & Systems Engineering Brochure

2021

Washington University in St. Louis McKelvey School of Engineering Preston M. Green Department of

Electrical & Systems Engineering

The Preston M. Green Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering is housed in Green Hall, a state-of-the-art, Gold LEED certified building.

73%

of undergraduate ESE students minor, double major or have dual degrees, often in a non-engineering area.

100% of PhD students are fully funded

4.5:1 PhD students to tenured/tenure-track faculty ratio

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Multiple mentor and industry engagement programs for undergraduate and graduate students

WashU ESE

Undergraduate programs:

27

28

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o f es e st u d ents are women

facult y

» Electrical Engineering* » Systems Science & Engineering* » Computer Engineering (offered jointly with CSE) » Energy Engineering (minor only) » Mechatronics (minor only) » Robotics (minor only)

Students

» Financial Engineering (second major only)

147

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* ABET accredited programs

Master’s programs:

undergr aduate

» MS in Electrical Engineering » MS in Data Analytics and Statistics

198

62

master’s

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» MS in Systems Science & Mathematics » MS in Computer Engineering (offered jointly with CSE) » Graduate Certificate in Imaging Science & Engineering » Graduate Certificate in Quantum Engineering » Graduate Certificate in Controls

120

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Breaking new ground with innovative quantum engineering programs WashU now offers an innovative Quantum Engineering program at the graduate and undergraduate level with advancement in quantum knowledge — quantum physics, quantum information science and quantum technologies. The curriculum encompasses both fundamental physics and the broad engineering skill-set necessary to meet the practical challenges of the future quantum revolution.

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Doctoral programs: » PhD in Electrical Engineering » PhD in Systems Science & Mathematics » DSc in Electrical Engineering » DSc in Systems Science & Mathematics Interdisciplinary elective courses provide further opportunities to apply quantum knowledge in a wide range of areas in which researchers are active, including nano-devices, materials, computation and communication, chemistry, and sensing and imaging.

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ESE Research

Research areas

WashU research centers for ESE collaboration

Applied Physics » Nano-photonics

Center for Cyborg and Biorobotic Research

» Quantum Optics » Engineered Materials

Center for Quantum Sensors

» Electrodynamics

Devices & Circuits » Computer Engineering » Integrated Circuits » Radiofrequency Circuits » Sensors

Center for Science and Engineering of Living Systems

Systems Science » Optimization » Applied Mathematics » Control » Cyber-physical Systems » Financial Engineering

Signals & Imaging » Computational Imaging » Signal Processing » Optical Imaging » Data Sciences

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Center for Sensor Signal & Information Processing Institute for Materials Science and Engineering (IMSE) Siteman Cancer Center Center for Trustworthy AI in CPS

Faculty Awards Sinopoli named IEEE Fellow Bruno Sinopoli,the Das Family Distinguished Professor and chair of the Preston M. Green Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has been named an IEEE Fellow in the Class of 2021.

Sinopoli was selected for his contributions to networked and secure control systems. His research focuses on robust and resilient design of cyber-physical systems, networked and distributed control systems, distributed interference in networks, smart infrastructures, wireless sensor and actuator networks, cloud computing, adaptive video streaming applications and energy systems.

The IEEE Fellow is one of the most prestigious honors of the IEEE, a technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology, and is bestowed upon a very limited number of senior members.

Ulugbek Kamilov will investigate a new framework with an NSF CAREER Award

Kamilov, Lew named Fellows for Advancing Bioimaging Initiative

When getting an MRI scan, a patient is told to lie as still as possible because any movement will create errors in the scans.

Ulugbek Kamilov, assistant professor of electrical & systems engineering and computer science & engineering is proposing a novel way to correct errors in MRIs and other types of images using deep learning.

Kamilov, plans to develop a framework that ultimately would lead to algorithms to correct these errors and enhance imaging capabilities with a five-year, $486,000 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. CAREER awards support junior faculty who model the role of teacher-scholar through outstanding research, excellence in education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organization. One-third of current McKelvey Engineering faculty have received the award.

Ulugbek Kamilov and Matthew Lew, both faculty members in the McKelvey School of Engineering, have been named Fellows for Research Corporation for Science Advancement’s (RCSA) new Scialog initiative, Advancing Bioimaging.

Kamilov, assistant professor of electrical & systems engineering and computer science & engineering, and Lew, assistant professor of electrical & systems engineering, were among 55 early-career researchers chosen as fellows for the initiative, sponsored

by RCSA and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, with additional support from the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation.

New faculty join the department

Ioannis (Yiannis) Kantaros, Assistant Professor

Yiannis Kantaros’ research is focused on the design of safe and distributed autonomy algorithms for large-scale multi-robot systems. His work seeks to understand how teams of robots need to coordinate and use their heterogeneous sensing capabilities to safely accomplish complex missions in unknown environments in the presence of sensing and perceptual uncertainty.

Aravind Nagulu, Assistant Professor

Aravind Nagalu will join the McKelvey School of Engineering in January 2022 from Columbia University, where he is pursuing a doctorate in electrical engineering. Nagalus has been a pioneer in the area of novel wave propagation based on time-variance and has explored the use of time-variance to achieve non-magnetic non-reciprocity and wave propagation beyond the delaybandwidth limit.

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Research news

Zhang seeks ways to stop sneaky attacks on computer hardware Malicious attacks on computer hardware and embedded systems, such as cloud servers, smartphones and Internet-of-Things devices, are a constant threat. Xuan ‘Silvia’ Zhang, assistant professor of electrical & systems engineering, plans to conduct fundamental research on building a detection framework that would spot these attacks with a ninemonth, $300,000 grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

Zhang and her collaborator, Yier Jin, associate professor of electrical & computer engineering at the University of Florida, plan to use a cross-layer system infrastructure of the power delivery network to build the framework, which would detect malicious attacks on the computer hardware across chip, board and system levels. They plan to build a prototype system to evaluate its effectiveness and efficiency, then scale up their framework to evaluate its performance on various commercial, off-the-shelf products.

A new piece of the quantum computing puzzle Research from the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis has found a missing piece in the puzzle of optical quantum computing.

Jung-Tsung Shen, associate professor in the Preston M. Green Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering, has developed a deterministic, high-fidelity twobit quantum logic gate that takes advantage of a new form of light. This new logic gate is orders of magnitude more efficient than the current technology.

“In the ideal case, the fidelity can be as high as 97 percent,” Shen said.

The potential of quantum computers is bound to the unusual properties of superposition — the ability of a quantum system to contain many distinct properties, or states, at the same time — and entanglement — two particles acting as if they are correlated in a non-classical manner, despite being physically removed from each other.

Ching and Sinopoli lead MURI to study brain dynamics, reinforcement learning Over the past half century, artificial intelligence has gone from a concept to everyday life, with electronic payments, facial recognition and social media becoming the norm. But the dynamic mechanisms in the brain on which artificial intelligence is based, which are more efficient, reliable and flexible, remain unclear to scientists, leading to a disconnect between biological and machine learning.

A multidisciplinary and multiinstitutional team of researchers, led by ShiNung Ching, associate professor of electrical & systems engineering and Bruno Sinopoli, the Das Family Distinguished Professor and chair of the Preston M. Green Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering, will probe these brain cell dynamics with a three-year, $3.75 million Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) grant from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Army Research Laboratory. It is the first MURI in which McKelvey School of Engineering is the lead institution in about 10 years.

$1.1 million in funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help make uterine mapping technology Monitoring uterine contractions during labor is critical for safeguarding maternal health and preventing preterm births, the world’s leading cause of death in children under age 5. Toward that end, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis plan to develop a portable, inexpensive and noninvasive 3D imaging system designed to monitor labor progression.

The researchers, led by Yong Wang, principal investigator and an associate professor electrical & systems engineering and of obstetrics & gynecology in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology‘s Division of Clinical Research, have received more than $1.1 million in new grant funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help make uterine mapping technology available globally in low-income clinics that lack basic resources in their labor and delivery rooms.

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ESE Innovation

Mentoring programs for WashU Engineers Mentor Collective Deloitte Mentor Program Regional Business Council

st. louis is the

No. 2 city f or sta rt u ps (Forbes)

WashU Engineering Mentor Program

WashU and St. Louis resources and accelerators:

Women & Engineering

» Arch Grants

Boeing

Discovery Competition The Discovery Competition provides engineering undergraduate students the forum to explore their entrepreneurial interests with support from mentors, to use their creativity to develop solutions for real-world problems and to compete for financial resources that could help turn their ideas into businesses.

» Cambridge Innovation Center St. Louis » Cortex Innovation Community » Discovery Competition » Office of Technology Management » Skandalaris Center​for Interdisciplinary Innovation & Entrepreneurship » Sling Health Network » T-Rex Technology Incubator » Venture Cafe

Shuo (Linda) Wang PhD alumni in Systems Science and Mathamatics

“I came to WashU because the broad impact of the research topic on interdisciplinary areas, including social study biomedicine, neuroscience, quantum physics, etc. The desire to make life better through engineering modeling and design. For example, one can design the optimal firing patterns in neuroscience to treat neuronal disorders; design optimal ensemble control to quantum spins in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and imaging (MRI); design optimal dosage of chemotherapeutic drugs to treat cancer.”

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WashU ESE outcomes

top c o m pani e s:

What do recent BS graduates do after graduation?

Amazon

Accenture AmeriCorps Analysis Group Inc. Anheuser-Busch

62%

1%

entered the wo rkfo rce

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AT&T Azimuth Energy Bain & Company Inc. bioMerieux Capital One Cardinal Health Cerner Corporation Citigroup Epic

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32%

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co ntinuing educatio n

Evercore Garmin International Honeywell International Inc. McKinsey & Company McMaster-Carr Mitre Corp.

Oracle/NetSuite Produce Pro Software

Average starting salary for 2021 BS graduates

$72,750

e le ct r ic al e n g ineering

$80,666 systems engi neer i ng

Raytheon Co. Sense Corp.

SpaceX Two Sigma Investments ZS Associates top gr aduat e scho ols: Columbia University Duke University

Leadership Bruno Sinopoli

Harvard University Johns Hopkins University Stanford University University of California, Berkeley

Department Chair and Das Family Distinguished Professor

University of California, Los Angeles

bsinopoli@wustl.edu

UPenn Dental

University of Texas at Austin Yale University

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