Recent Posts

Improved Cough-Detection Tech Can Help With Health Monitoring

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/lobaton-cough-header-2025.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="cartoon shows a person coughing"></div>The advance makes it easier to monitor chronic health conditions and predict health risks such as asthma attacks.

Rising to a New Challenge

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/risingattack-hero-cropped-scaled-1.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Anonymous hacker sits in front of his computer with red-lit walls in the background"></div>AI presents entirely new challenges to cybersecurity. New research from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering could help protect AI vision systems from hacks that distort what they see.

Music Technology Program Allows Students to Blend Passions for Music, Engineering

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/dsc09524.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="Students in a Music Technology class conduct a listening test."></div>The newly-minted Music Technology program, housed within the Department of Performing Arts and Technology, and the first degree-granting major within the Division of Academic and Student Affairs’ University College, offers students a unique opportunity to explore the worlds of both music and electrical and computer engineering.

Hardware Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Hack AI Training Data

<div class="featured-img"><img src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/gatebleed-header.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="a laptop computer streaming green text sits on a table in a dark room"></div>Researchers have identified the first vulnerability that allows attackers to compromise the data privacy of AI users by exploiting the physical hardware on which AI is run.

NC State Professor Vijay K. Shah Launches AI Startup to Make Machine Learning Accessible

<div class="featured-img"><img width="1920" height="1080" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Untitled.png" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt=""></div>NC State Assistant Professor Vijay K. Shah is bringing his research into the real world through his startup All Things Intelligence Inc., with a mission to simplify machine learning (ML) for everyone. Its product, NeuralSmith, allows users to build production-ready machine learning models in plain English, by automating data preparation, model training, and evaluation in minutes to hours, which typically takes weeks or months.

Marking 40 Years of Collaboration for Nagoya University and NC State

On September 22nd and 23rd, Nagoya University leadership traveled to NC State to celebrate four decades of collaboration. The program featured a 40th anniversary symposium, garden dedication and research roundtable. Celebrating Past, Present and Future “NC State and Nagoya University have worked together since 1985,” said Chancellor Howell. “Over the past four decades, our partnership…

NC State ECE Colloquium: Anurag Srivastava on building resilient power grids

<div class="featured-img"><img width="1920" height="1080" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Anurag-Srivastava-Seminar.png" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt=""></div>This Friday, September 19, the Department welcomes Anurag K. Srivastava, chair of the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at West Virginia University.

Hayden Flo ‘26 Gains Technical and Business Experience at Analog Devices Internship

<div class="featured-img"><img width="1920" height="1080" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Hayden-Flo-1920x1080-1.jpeg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt=""></div>Hayden Flo ’26, a computer engineering major, interned at Analog Devices in Massachusetts, where he developed a forecasting tool for aerospace and defense customers. The experience gave him technical skills, business insight and valuable mentorship.

Startup Switch: Ta‑Seen Reaz Niloy’s Satellite Communication  Immersion in California

<div class="featured-img"><img width="1920" height="1080" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Untitled-1-1.jpeg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt=""></div>Ph.D. student Ta‑Seen Reaz Niloy is interning at Tiami Networks in California, where she’s developing 4G/5G testbeds and algorithms to support Non-terrestrial Network (NTN), Direct-to-Cell (DTC) communication in wireless systems. Her mentorship in a startup environment is expanding her research outlook and shaping her entrepreneurial ambitions.

Self-Powered Patch Monitors Biomarkers Without Drawing Blood

<div class="featured-img"><img width="1920" height="1080" src="https://ece.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Untitled.jpeg" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt=""></div>For Immediate Release Michael Daniele mdaniel6@ncsu.edu Matt Shipman matt_shipman@ncsu.edu Researchers have developed a self-powered microneedle patch to monitor a range of health biomarkers without drawing blood or relying on batteries or external devices. In proof-of-concept testing with synthetic skin, the researchers demonstrated that the patches could collect biomarker samples over periods ranging from 15 minutes […]