Ene Meco

ECE PhD Candidate · University of Illinois Chicago

I recently started the ECE PhD program at the University of Illinois at Chicago (Spring 2026). I am a Graduate Research Assistant at Northwestern University under Prof. Ermin Wei, working on Game Theory & Agents, and at UIC under Prof. A. Enis Cetin on Wildfire Spread Prediction using U-Nets.

Previously a software engineer at Abissnet (AI agents, RAG pipelines) and a research intern at the Observatoire de Paris | PSL on spectral analysis for astrophysical signal detection on FPGA. BSc from Sorbonne Université (19.04/20) with an exchange year at the University of Chicago (4.0 GPA).

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Education

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PhD, Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2026–present

University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)

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Exchange Student (GPA 4.0), 2024–2025

University of Chicago

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BSc, Electrical & Electronics Engineering (19.04/20), 2022–2025

Sorbonne Université, Paris

Research Interests

  • Game Theory & Multi-Agent Systems
  • Computer Vision & Deep Learning (U-Nets)
  • AI Agents & Retrieval-Augmented Generation
  • Signal Processing & FPGA Systems
  • Wildfire Spread Prediction

News

May 2026 Started as Graduate Research Assistant at Northwestern University under Prof. Ermin Wei.
Jan 2026 Began ECE PhD program at University of Illinois Chicago.
Jan 2026 Started research on Wildfire Spread Prediction using U-Nets under Prof. A. Enis Cetin at UIC.
Oct 2025 Promoted to Software Engineering Team Lead at Abissnet.
Jun 2024 Research internship at Observatoire de Paris | PSL — spectral analysis on FPGA for astrophysical signals.

Selected Projects

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    Wildfire Spread Prediction using U-Nets

    Ene Meco · Supervised by Prof. A. Enis Cetin

    Graduate Research · University of Illinois Chicago, 2026–present

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  2. 🌍

    Unveiling Regional Dynamics: A Comparative Study of Balkan Countries in 2023

    Ene Meco

    University of Chicago, Feb–Mar 2025 · Machine Learning, Unsupervised Learning

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  3. ☀️

    Exploring Short-Term Activity Cycle of the Sun at Different Wavelengths

    Ene Meco

    University of Chicago, Nov–Dec 2024 · Scikit-Learn, NumPy

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See all projects on the projects page or LinkedIn.