Electrical Engineering

Why Get your Master's in Quantum Science and Technology at Columbia?


Columbia Engineering provides a rigorous Ivy League education in an atmosphere charged with innovation in the heart of a dynamic global city.

As a student here, you’ll benefit from:

  • Incredible Research Environment:
    Join a rich community of exploration and innovation across schools and departments, including the Columbia Quantum Initiative, the School of Engineering, and the Center for Computational Quantum Physics, with scores of researchers working on areas ranging from quantum computing to photonics to quantum materials. 
     
  • Strategic Partnerships
    Benefit from Colombia's position within a network of universities, research organizations, and industry partners through the Columbia Quantum Initiative to access extended opportunities for research, internships, and job connections.  
     
  • Multi-Disciplinary Expertise:
    Learn from active scholars and researchers within several departments of the School of Engineering and the Department of Physics, gaining insights and perspectives from diverse fields for a broad career preparation. 
     
  • Flexible Curriculum:
    Choose to focus your training in areas that match your career objectives, including quantum computing, photonics, and nanoscale technology, with a selection of electives within Engineering and Physics tracks. 

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Why Pursue a Master's in Electrical Engineering at Columbia?


Columbia Engineering provides a rigorous Ivy League education in an atmosphere charged with innovation in the heart of a dynamic global city. As a student here, you’ll benefit from:

  • Highly-Customizable Curriculum
    Take advantage of 9 different tracks in areas of specialization like networking, integrated circuits, systems biology, and photonics to prepare for in-demand jobs. Or, create a personalized curriculum to pursue a unique path of exploration. 
     
  • Broad Research Opportunities
    Build your résumé and contribute to pioneering research by joining with faculty in an array of labs and research centers including the Lightwave Research Laboratory, Bioelectronic Systems Laboratory, and the Columbia Nano Initiative.
     
  • World-Class Faculty
    Join a department of accomplished scholars and passionate instructors engaged in cutting-edge research in areas like nanoscale photonics for extreme data transfer efficiency and brain-computer interfaces. 
     
  • Outstanding Placement
    Graduates in Electrical Engineering from Columbia are known for their technical knowledge, research skills, and creativity as problem solvers. Our students receive offers from top employers and graduate programs.  

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Why Get your Master's in Computer Engineering at Columbia?


Columbia gives you a rigorous Ivy League education in the heart of a vibrant global city for an experience unlike any place else.

As a student here, you’ll benefit from:

  • Two In-Demand Areas
    Build skills and knowledge in both computer science and electrical engineering, giving you the flexibility to pursue a broad range of opportunities in growing industry sectors.  
     
  • Broad Research Opportunities
    Contribute to pioneering research and build an impressive résumé with opportunities across an incredible array of laboratories and research centers including the Computer Architecture, Bioelectronic Systems, and Wireless and Mobile Networking labs.
     
  • World-Class Faculty
    Join a department of accomplished scholars and passionate instructors engaged in cutting-edge, cross-disciplinary research in areas like computer architecture, hardware security, networks, and distributed embedded systems.
     
  • Outstanding Placement
    Graduates in Computer Engineering from Columbia are known for their technical knowledge, research skills, and creativity as problem solvers. Our students receive offers from top employers and graduate programs.  

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Research Areas


  • Neuroengineering
  • Biomedical Imaging
  • Biosignals
  • Biomedical Image Analysis
  • Brain-Machine Interfaces
  • Personalized Medicine and Patient-specific Modeling
  • Wearable Devices
  • Signal Processing
  • Brain-Computer Interfaces

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  • Professional Affiliations
    • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
    • Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
    • Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
    • Member, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
    • Member, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
    • Member, Association for Computing Machinery
    • Member, Society for Neuroscience
  • Honors & Awards
    • Elected Fellow of IAMBE, 2023
    • DoD Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow, 2019
    • Elected Fellow of the AAAS, 2016
    • Elected Fellow of the IEEE, 2012
    • Elected editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 2011
    • Elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering  (AIMBE), 2009
    • Awarded Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship, 2008
    • National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2002
    • Sarnoff Technical Achievement Award, 1996
  • Professional Experience
    • Chair, Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2023-
    • Vice Chair, Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2020-2023
    • Visiting professor, University of Glasgow, 2015-
    • Professor of biomedical engineering, Electrical Engineering and Radiology, Columbia University, 2012-
    • Member, Graduate Group, Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University, 2008-
    • Visiting scientist, RIKEN Brain Sciences Institute, JAPAN, 2008
    • Director, Laboratory for Intelligent Imaging and Neural Engineering (LIINC), Columbia University, 2000-
    • Associate professor of biomedical engineering and radiology, Columbia University, 2000-2012
    • Head, Adaptive Image & Signal Processing Group, Sarnoff Research Center, 1997-2000
    • Technology leader, Adaptive Image & Signal Processing, Sarnoff Research Center, 1996-1997
    • Member of technical staff, Sarnoff Research Center, 1994-1996

Research Areas


  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
  • Vision and Robotics
  • Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR)
  • Edge Computing
  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
  • Networked and Distributed Systems
  • Robotics and Autonomous Systems
  • Wireless, Embedded, and Sensor Systems
  • Computer Systems and Computer Engineering
  • Smart Electric Energy (Smart Grids)
  • Energy Efficiency and Conservation Technology
  • Wearable Electronics (Technology)

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  • Professional Experience
    • Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2020-Present
    • Vice Chair of SIGEnergy, Association for Computing Machinery, 2023-Present
    • Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2015-2020
    • Co-Chair of Smart Cities Center, Data Science Institute, Columbia University, 2016-Present
    • CTO, Air Scientific Inc., 2014-2015
    • Director of Analytics and IoT Research, Intel Labs China, 2012-2014
    • Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia, 2010-2012
    • Engineer, Intel, 2005-2005
  • Professional Affiliations
    • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
    • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • Honors & Awards
    • Best Paper Award, ACM MobiSys, 2024
    • Best Paper Award, ACM BuildSys, 2023
    • Best Demo Award, ACM/IEEE IPSN, 2023
    • Best Demo Runner-Up Award, ACM SenSys, 2022
    • Best Poster Candidate, ACM BuildSys, 2022
    • Best Demo Award, ACM SenSys, 2021
    • Best Paper Award, IEEE ITEC, 2021
    • Best Demo Award, ACM/IEEE IPSN, 2020
    • Best Paper Candidate, ACM/IEEE IoTDI, 2020
    • CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2020
    • Best Paper Runner Up Award, ACM BuildSys, 2019
    • Best Demo Award, ACM/IEEE IoTDI, 2018
    • Best Presentation Award, IEEE VNC, 2018
    • 2nd Place, App Contest, IEEE VNC, 2018
    • 35 Innovators Under 35 Semi-Finalist, MIT Technology Review, 2017
    • Best Paper Runner Up Award, ACM BuildSys, 2017
    • Best Poster Award, ACM BuildSys, 2016
    • Best Demo Runner Up, ACM SenSys, 2016
    • Best Demo Award, ACM SenSys, 2011
    • National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 2006
    • Best Paper Award, IEEE IPSN, 2005
  • Education
    • PhD, Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
    • MS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
    • BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley

Research Areas


  • Computer Systems and Computer Engineering
  • Networking
  • Photonics
  • Quantum Communications
  • Silicon Photonics

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  • Professional Experience
    • 2023 – Present - Director, SRC/JUMP 2 Center for Ubiquitous Connectivity (CUbiC)
    • 2011 – Present - Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering
    • 2014 – Present - Founder and Faculty Director, Columbia Nano Initiative
    • 2016 – Present  - AIM Photonics Institute, Leadership Council
    • 2002 – Present - Director, Lightwave Research Laboratory, Columbia University
    • 2011 – 2017     - Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
    • 2006 – 2010     - Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
    • 2007 – 2008     - Visiting Research Fellow IBM T. J. Watson Research Labs
    • 2002 – 2006     - Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
    • 1999 – 2002     - Senior Member of Technical Staff, Tellium, Inc.
    • 1998 – 2007     - Senior Technical Advisor, National Security Agency
    • 1995 – 2000     - Technical Consultant, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
    • 1994 – 1999    - Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
  • Professional Affiliations
    • Fellow, Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers
    • Fellow, Optica
  • Honors & Awards
    • Applied Physics Reviews Editors choice feature 2023
    • HPCwire People to Watch Award 2022
    • Meta (Facebook) Faculty Award 2021
    • Bucknell University Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award 2019
    • IEEE Photonics Engineering Award 2016
    • 2016 Herman Haus Distinguished Lecture, MIT
    • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow, 2009
    • IBM Faculty Award, 2008
    • Optical Society of America Fellow, 2003
    • CalTech President's Award, 1997
    • Office of Naval Research Young Investigator, 1996–1999
    • National Science Foundation CAREER Program Investigator, 1995–1998
    • AT&T Bell Laboratories Fellowship, 1991–1994
  • Education
    • PhD, Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MS, Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • BS, Electrical Engineering, Bucknell University

Research Areas


  • Analog Devices
  • Communications
  • Integrated Circuits and Systems
  • Signal Processing
  • Very large-scale integration (VLSI)

Additional Information


  • Professional Experience
    • Senior Lecturer, Columbia University 2005-
    • Senior Member of Technical Staff, PMC-Sierra 2005
    • Senior Member of Technical Staff, Vitesse Semiconductor 2003-2005
    • Senior Member of Technical Staff, Texas Instruments 2000-2003
    • Senior Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories 1996-2000
    • Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Microelectronics 1992-1996
    • Faculty Intern, Analog Devices (summer 1988)
    • Assistant Professor, Columbia University 1987-1992
    • Intern, Motorola (summer 1984)
    • Member of Technical Staff, Hewlett-Packard 1981-1984
  • Professional Affiliations
    • IEEE
  • Honors & Awards
    • Columbia University Presidential Teaching Award (2013)
    • Engineering Alumni Association Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award (2007, 2013)
    • AT&T Bell Labs Outstanding Achievement Award
    • Lucent Technologies Worldwide Team Award
       
  • Education
    • PhD, Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
    • MS, Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
    • BS, Electrical Engineering, Columbia University

Additional Information


  • Professional Experience

    • Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2018 -
    • Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2013 - 2018
  • Honors & Awards

    • Best Paper Award, Signal Processing Journal (Elsevier), European Association for Signal
    • Processing, 2020
    • Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, Columbia Engineering Alumni Association, 2017
    • Top 10% Paper Recognition, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2013
    • Notable Paper Award, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2011
  • Education

    • PhD, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Duke University
    • BSEE, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Duke University

Research Areas


  • Networks and Distributed Systems
  • Cloud Computing
  • Edge Computing
  • Cybersecurity
  • Computer Systems and Computer Engineering
  • Networking

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  • Professional Experience
    • Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2017-
    • Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair, University of Southern California, 2016-2017
    • Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Southern California, 2012-2017
    • Software Engineer, Mobile performance, Google Inc., 2011-2012
  • Professional Affiliations
    • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
    • ACM SIGCOMM
  • Honors & Awards
    • Best of ACM SIGCOMM CCR, 2023: Who Squats IPv4 Addresses?
    • Best Short Paper, ACM IMC, 2022: The Best of Both Worlds: High Availability CDN Routing Without Compromising Control
    • Best Paper, ACM SIGCOMM, 2021: Seven Years in the Life of Hypergiants' Off-Nets
    • Best Paper Runner-Up, IFIP Networking, 2020: Tracking Down Sources of Spoofed IP Packets
    • SIGCOMM Rising Star Award 2019
    • IETF Applied Networking Research Prize, 2019: Engineering Egress with Edge Fabric: Steering Oceans of Content to the World
    • Best of SIGCOMM CCR, 2018: Towards a Rigorous Methodology for Measuring Adoption of RPKI Route Validation and Filtering
    • Facebook Faculty Research Award, 2017 and 2018
    • Google Faculty Research Award, 2015: Flexible Internet Routing for Cloud Tenants
    • Google Faculty Research Award, 2016: Longitudinal Study of Adoption of RPKI-Based Route Filtering
    • Google Faculty Research Award, 2015: Flexible Internet Routing for Cloud Tenants
    • Google Faculty Research Award, 2014: Measuring and Improving Web Performance
    • Google Faculty Research Award, 2013: Mapping Today's Internet
    • NSF CAREER Award, 2014: Routing for the Emerging Topologies of Modern Internet Services
    • IETF Applied Networking Research Prize, 2014: Reducing Web Latency: the Virtue of Gentle Aggression
    • Best Paper, ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop, 2013: Don't Trust Traceroute (Completely)
    • William Chan Memorial Dissertation Award, 2012
    • Finalist (4 total), Western Association of Graduate Schools Innovation in Technology Award, 2012
    • Best Paper, NSDI, 2010: Reverse Traceroute
    • Madrona Prize runner-up, Madrona Venture Group, 2009: Reverse Traceroute
    • Best Paper, NSDI, 2008: Consensus Routing: The Internet as a Distributed System
  • Education
    • Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
    • B.A., Computer Science & Mathematics, Williams College

Research Areas


  • Communications
  • Embedded Systems
  • Hardware Accelerators
  • Networking
  • Signal Processing
  • Computer Vision and Speech Processing
  • Sensor Systems
  • Machine Learning
  • Deep Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Internet of Things
  • Parallel Computing
  • Systems

Additional Information


  • Professional Experience
    • Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2014-
    • Principal Scientist, Architecture Design Lead, Mobile System on Chip, Broadcom Inc.
    • Principal Engineer, The Mathworks
    • Principal MTS, AT&T Wireless Research
    • Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories Cellular Mobile Communications
    • Academic Instructor, graduate level and executive courses, UCLA, UCSD, CU
    • Founder, startup InnovICs , third generation cellular system design
    • Intellectual Property Consulting
  • Honors & Awards
    • IEEE, Senior Member
    • Three dozen patents on signal processing, wireless and mobile communications (database link) 
  • Education
    • PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Rochester
    • MS, Electrical Engineering, University of Rochester
    • Dipl. Ing. Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad

Research Areas


  • Power Electronics
  • Motor Drives
  • Battery Systems
  • Energy Storage
  • Control Systems
  • Electromagnetics
  • Embedded Systems
  • Power Systems
  • Smart Electric Energy (Smart Grids)
  • Electric Vehicles
  • Energy Efficiency and Conservation Technology
  • Renewable Energy
  • Robotics and Automation

Additional information


  • Professional Experience
    • Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, 2016–
    • Sessional Professor, Computer and Electrical Engineering, McMaster University, Canada, 2015
    • R&D Engineer in Power Electronics and Drives, Electrical Engineering Group, Leitwind AG, Sterzing, Italy, 2010 - 2012
  • Honors & Awards
    • CAREER Award NSF, 2017
    • Career Award, Futura Foundation, Italy, 2016
    • PhD Fellowship, University of Padua, 2012 – 2013
    • Postgraduate Fellowship, Bozen, Italy, 2011
    • Prize for Outstanding Achievements During Academic Studies, Bozen, Italy, 2011
    • Best Presentation Award, Conference for MSc Energy Students (CES), Aalborg University, Denmark, 2009
    • Merit Scholarship for Graduate Students, Bozen, Italy, 2009 – 2010
    • Merit Scholarship for Undergraduate Students, Bozen, Italy, 2007, 2008
  • Professional Affiliations
    • IEEE