February 7, 2019
ECE alumna named associate chair for innovation and entrepreneurship
Pamela Bhatti, who graduated with her MSEE (’93) from UW, is now the new Associate Chair for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. According to the Georgia Tech School of ECE, in her new role, Bhatti will lead the School’s support of faculty members’ entrepreneurial activities. She will also…
February 1, 2019
ECE alum Jessica Tran writes about diversity in user research for Microsoft
Jessica Tran’s column, “Diversity in User Research: How Nontraditional Backgrounds Enhance Impact” can be read here.
ECE Ph.D candidate featured in Marvel comic
Katherine Pratt, an ECE Ph.D. candidate and a 2018 TechCongress Fellow, is featured in the fourth issue of Marvel’s The Unstoppable Wasp. She is an Agent of G.I.R.L.: Genius in Action Research Labs, a feature created by the comic’s creator, Jeremy Whitely. Each issue focuses on super hero engineers and scientists. Learn more about Pratt…
January 30, 2019
Professor Denise Wilson speaks to Nature on the gender pay gap
ECE professor Denise Wilson has been working and studying in the engineering field for 30 year. As a professor in sensors and photovoltaics and engineering education, she shared her thoughts on the gender pay gap with Nature. “A lot of women who go into software and app development are doing well,” she was quoted as…
January 22, 2019
Chet Moritz appointed as Hwang Professor
Chet Moritz, professor of electrical & computer engineering, rehabilitation medicine and physiology & biophysics, has been named the Cherng Jia and Elizabeth Yun Hwang Endowed Professor in the University of Washington’s (UW’s) Department of Electrical Engineering. He is the second recipient of this award, Rajesh Rao, director of the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) and…
ECE student named 2018-19 PES scholarship recipient
Ishaan Bhimani, a second year student in ECE, was awarded 2018-19 IEEE Power & Energy Society scholarship. Selected students for this honor are high achievers with strong GPAs with distinctive extracurricular commitments who are committed to exploring the power and energy field. According to IEEE PES, “power and energy engineers work with some of today’s…
January 11, 2019
Professor Majumdar appointed WRF Distinguished Investigator
Electrical and Computer Engineering professor Arka Majumdar was appointed as a Distinguished Investigator by the Washington Research Foundation (WRF). The appointment is a 5-year Professorship with WRF. “This is a wonderful recognition of what Arka has been doing at the UW, said ECE professor and chair Radha Poovendran. “We are deeply grateful to WRF for…
December 13, 2018
At the UW, our sci-fi future has arrived
By Hannelore Sudermann From Columns Late this summer a group of astronomers from around the country, including assistant professor Rory Barnes, discovered what could be Vulcan, Mr. Spock’s home planet. It is right where “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry said it could be—in a solar system surrounding 40 Eridani A, a star 16 light years…
November 28, 2018
UW-led philosophy team receives $1.5M grant to study the ethics of neurotechnology research
By Sarah McQuate UW News Brain-computer interfaces have the potential to give patients better and more natural control over their prosthetic devices. Through this method, a chip in a patient’s brain picks up a thought — neural activity triggered by focusing on specific visual imagery — to move a joint and then transmits that signal…
November 26, 2018
Maryam Fazel to lead NSF TRIPODS+X in data science
The National Science Foundation announced that it is awarding grants totaling $8.5 million to 19 collaborative projects at 23 universities for the study of complex and entrenched problems in data science. Three of these projects will be based at the University of Washington. The grants build on a 2017 award in the Transdisciplinary Research in…
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