Research / Areas of ResearchComputer Engineering
Northwestern University’s Computer Engineering program is a joint program between the Department of Computer Science (CS) and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), and offers programs leading to the MS and PhD degrees in Computer Engineering (CE). Computer Engineering covers a diverse set of research areas in which our faculty are actively pursuing. These areas include, but are not limited to, computer architecture, computer systems, operating systems, compilers, parallel systems, distributed systems, high-performance and parallel computing, distributed computing, data mining, artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data science and applications, integrated circuits/VLSI, mixed-signal circuit design, design automation, formal methods, embedded and real-time systems, mobile and wearable computing, internet of things, cyber-physical systems, database systems, and reconfigurable systems. For more details please browse the web pages of individual faculty members.
Core Computer Engineering Faculty
Simone Campanoni
Associate Professor of Computer Science and (by courtesy) Electrical and Computer Engineering
Alok Choudhary
Harold Washington Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Peter Dinda
Professor of Computer Science and (by courtesy) Electrical and Computer Engineering
Josiah Hester
Adjunct Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science
Russell Joseph
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Hai Zhou
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and (by courtesy) Computer Science
Qi Zhu
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and (by courtesy) Computer Science
Nivedita Arora
Allen K. and Johnnie Cordell Breed Junior Professor of Design
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and (by courtesy) Computer Science
Affiliated Computer Engineering Faculty
Nabil Alshurafa
Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and (by courtesy) Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering
Alan Sahakian
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and (by courtesy) Biomedical Engineering
Senior Advisor to the Dean
Computer Engineering Research Faculty
