Electrical & Computer Engineering

Shaifalee Saxena, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, received a Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Best Student Award. She was one of five recipients out of approximately 2000 student workers. Saxena began...

Tito Busani, an associate professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering, has been named the new director of the Optical Science and Engineering program at The University of New Mexico. 

An associate professor at The University of New Mexico received a grid modernization research grant from the New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department. Ali Bidram, associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer...

New research led by a graduating Ph.D. student in The University of New Mexico Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has shown that randomization can improve quantum computer performance in the presence of noise. 

You can design a self-driving car that follows traffic laws to a T, but if it isn’t trained to account for how other people drive in the area, it may do more harm than good.

Nasir Ahmed, a University of New Mexico alumnus and professor emeritus, has been selected to the National Academy of Engineering’s class of 2026 for his work inventing the discrete cosine transform, which is the data compression format that serves as the basis for most digital media standards.

The Undergraduate Research, Arts and Design Network at The University of New Mexico has announced the recipients of the research scholarship for the spring of 2026.  

The University of New Mexico has been redesignated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Research (CAE-R) through the 2030 academic year.

Three individuals will receive honorary doctorates at The University of New Mexico spring 2025 undergraduate commencement ceremony on May 17. Honorary degrees are awarded to recognize individuals’ contributions to a specific field or to society in...

A $7 million collaborative research grant will unite four universities in New Mexico to research and develop intelligent additive manufacturing in a project titled, “Research Center for Distributed Resilient and Emergent-Intelligence-Based Additive...