Electrical and Computer Engineering | UC Davis College of Engineering

Workforce Development Program Showcase and Information Session

Join us as 2026 undergraduate and high school interns, supported by NSF ExLENT, DOW and NNME through the BE-STARSE and NW AI Hub programs, showcase the cutting-edge research they conducted in faculty labs and industry environments.

Na Li in a blue blazer with a blurred outdoor background

From Generative Models to Control: Representation-based Reinforcement Learning in Physical Systems

Professor Na Li

Department of Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics

Harvard

Siyuan Dai with short black hair, wearing a light blue shirt on a light gray background.

Scanning Probe Nano-Optics: From biochemical nano-fingerprinting to light-matter interactions in quantum materials

Scanning probe optical microscopy offers access to material properties beyond the fundamental diffraction limit in conventional optics. In this talk, I will start by introducing nano-spectroscopic material identification—nano-fingerprinting.

Rick Johnson with glasses and a white beard against a light background.

Assisting Creation Dating of 17th Century Dutch Drawings: Advances in Computational Art Connoisseurship Driven by Digital Image Processing

Professor C. Richard Johnson

Cornell University

David Z. Pan in a gray blazer stands confidently with arms crossed, smiling intently.

AI for Chip Design: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once?

Dr. David Pan

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Mitigating Stragglers in Distributed Computation and Optimization

Professor Stark Draper

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto

High Performance Integrated Photonics

Marko Lončar

Tiantsai Lin Professor of Electrical Engineering, Harvard's John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)

ECExpo 2026

Please RSVP to learn about the exciting new developments in education and research from our students and faculty in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at UC Davis!

ECE Seminar: Biao Chen presents "Quantum Universal Hypothesis Testing"

Abstract

Hoeffding’s formulation and solution of universal hypothesis testing (UHT) have inspired a substantial body of work on asymmetric hypothesis testing.

Toward a Theory of Discrete Diffusion Models: Beyond Euclidean Domains

Dr. Yuchen Liang

AI-EDGE Postdoctoral Researcher

The Ohio State University