Sensing & Imaging

Computational tools and advanced sensing techniques are giving us unmatched insights into the world around us. From gigapixel cameras to carbon nanotube sensors, we’re developing novel approaches to gathering and analyzing information to make our world safer and more secure, and healthcare applications faster and more efficient.

Research Areas

Computational and compressive sensing and measurement
Optical physics
Smart cameras
Inverse problems
Diagnostic imaging
On-chip sensing and lab-on-a-chip systems
Printed and thin-film electronics
Biosensing

Centers and Consortiums

Good to Know

Michael Gehm was named a Fellow of the Optical Society of America.

Qing Ho Liu won the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Computational Electromagnetics Award

Aaron Franklin’s sensor start-up Tyrata secured $4.5M in Series A funding.

Highlights

More ECE research news

Recovering Color Images from Scattered Light

New technique non-invasively separates spectral bands from scattered light

Expanding Access to Clean, Safe Sanitation Options

Duke University Center for WaSH-AID develops user-focused technology to solve water, sanitation and hygiene problems worldwide

Michael Gehm and Joel Greenberg in their lab

Safe Travels

Duke ECE is driving a new $5.83 million airport security project

Associated Faculty

David J. Brady

Michael J. Fitzpatrick Distinguished Professor of Photonics in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering

Research Interests: Professor Brady's research focuses on "smart cameras" which use artificial intelligence to increase the amount of visual information captured and to render this information useful. In 2012 his group built the world's first gigapixel camera, his work today focuses on making [...]

Martin A. Brooke

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Analog, RF, and optoelectronic circuits. Sensor interface circuits. Deployable sensor systems

Richard B. Fair

Lord-Chandran Distinguished Professor of Engineering

Research Interests: Microfluidic systems for lab-on-a-chip applications based on electrowetting technology

Aaron D. Franklin

Addy Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Nanomaterials in electronic devices, nanofabrication, printed electronics and internet of things (IoT), biosensing

Michael E. Gehm

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Primarily computational and compressive sensing and measurement in all modalities (with special emphasis in Electromagnetic/Optical from RF to x-ray and all forms of Mass spectrometry), with side interests in optical physics, high-performance x-ray simulation, and rapid- [...]

Jeffrey Glass

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Electronic materials and the associated devices/instruments improved by these materials, especially electrode applications in miniature mass spectrometry, energy conversion and storage and liquid waste disinfection for developing regions. Electrochemical measurements and [...]