February 4, 2010
Tim Kowalewski Wins Best Doctoral Candidate Award
Tim Kowalewski, an EE Ph.D. student in Blake Hannaford’s BioRobotics Lab, was awarded the Best Doctoral Candidate award at the first annualDoctoral Consortium for Medical Simulation and Robotics held last week in Chicago. The consortium is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Tim was chosen by a panel of engineers and surgeons over nine other…
February 3, 2010
Scott Hauck receives 2010 Distinguished Teaching Award
EE Professor Scott Hauck has been honored with a 2010 Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Washington. From the award announcement: “Scott Hauck has a natural talent in the classroom to enhance the student experience. He cares deeply about how his students are learning and continuously works to improve his teaching style through the…
January 6, 2010
Georg Seelig Receives 2010 CAREER Award
Assistant Professor Georg Seelig has received a 2010 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for his proposal titled “Nucleic acid circuitry for programming gene expression.” The focus of this research will be to engineer synthetic regulatory circuits that can analyze complex cellular states, and based on that analysis autonomously control gene expression. This research…
January 5, 2010
Three UW EE Alumni Win Outstanding Recruiter Awards from Sandia Lab
Congratulations to UW EE Alumni Lisa Anderson (formerly Hansen), David Burnett, and Harvey Ho for winning the “Outstanding Recruiter Award” from Sandia Laboratories. Each member of the UW recruiting team, comprised of Alex Willis, Lisa Anderson, David Burnett, Harvey Ho, and Bryn Miyahara received the award for their collaborative recruiting efforts, and Jonathan Zimmerman received…
January 2, 2010
“Bumblebee” wins 2010 DAC/ISSCC Design Competition
A team from Professor Brian Otis’ Wireless Sensing Lab has been named a winner at the 2010 Design Automation Conference (DAC)/International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Design Competition. Their entry, titled “The Bumblebee: A 0.3 gram, 560uW, 0.1cm3 Wireless Biosignal Interface with 10-m Range”, was authored by Tim Morrison, Helen Zhang, Shailesh Rai, Jagdish Pandey, Jeremy…
December 1, 2009
Nabar and Wu win “Pride at Boeing” award
Sidharth Nabar and Tony Wu of EE’s Network Security Lab (NSL), working with Professor Radha Poovendran, received the Pride@Boeing award for their technology transition demo. The Pride@Boeing award is in recognition of exceptional performance at Boeing, and was presented to “show Boeing’s appreciation for the special effort and high impact contributions” they put forth on…
October 1, 2009
Lih Lin named 2010 IEEE Fellow
Professor Lih Lin has been named an IEEE Fellow, effective January 1, 2010. Her citation reads “for contributions to optical micro-electro-mechanical systems switching technologies”. More information on this distinguished program can be found on the IEEE’s “About IEEE Fellow Program” page. We would like to congratulate Lih for this well-deserved honor.
September 15, 2009
Larson, Cohn win Top Research Prize from Madrona Venture Group
At October’s CSE affiliates day, EE PhD students Gabe Cohn and Eric Larson – teaming up with CSE PhD students Jon Froehlich and Sidhant Gupta – won the Top Research Prize from the Madrona Venture Group. Their project on sustainability sensing was one of sixty projects competing for the top spot. In addition, they also…
September 12, 2009
Mani Soma named IEEE CAS President-Elect
Professor Mani Soma has been elected to serve as President-Elect of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in 2010, then stepping into the role as the society’s President in 2011. Congratulations go to Mani for this well-deserved honor.
August 1, 2009
Rahul Vanam wins “Best Student Paper”
EE graduate student Rahul Vanam was awarded “Best Student Paper” at the 2009 Western New York Image Processing workshop in Rochester, New York. Co-authors for “Joint Rate-Intelligibility-Complexity Optimization of an H.264 Video Encoder for American Sign Language” were Frank Ciaramello, Eve Riskin, Sheila Hemami and Richard Ladner. Professor Riskin is also Rahul’s advisor. Congratulations, Rahul!
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