Two new Electrical Engineering faculty are joining the EECS department in 2019:   Associate Prof. Boubacar Kanté joined the department in January.  His multidisciplinary research interests are in the areas of wave-matter interaction, from microwave to optics and related fields such as nanophotonics, nanoscale photon management, and biophysics.  Assistant Prof. Sophia Shao will be joining the EECS department in July.  Her research interests are in the area of computer architecture, with a special focus on specialized accelerator, heterogeneous architecture, and agile VLSI design methodology.