Sensing & Imaging

Computational tools and advanced sensing techniques are giving us unmatched insights into the world around us. 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

Jeff Glass has been named interim dean of Duke Engineering, effective July 1, 2021

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

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

Highlights

More ECE research news

X-ray Scanner Spots Cancers and Analyzes Drugs in Minutes

New technology could speed cancer diagnosis, ensure surgeons remove 100% of a tumor and inspect drugs for dangerous chemicals

WaSH-AID researchers meet around a table with a screen in the background

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Awards $4.5 Million to Duke Center for WaSH-AID

The new grant will support the management of field-testing transformative sanitation technologies to improve public health

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Recovering Color Images from Scattered Light

New technique non-invasively separates spectral bands from scattered light

Associated Faculty

Martin A. Brooke

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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

Tingjun Chen

Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Wireless networking, next-generation wireless and optical networks, edge cloud and computing, Internet-of-Things (IoT), mobile and embedded systems, platforms and testbeds

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 [...]