March 13, 2017
Undergraduate Student, Megan Swanson, Admitted to SUPERB-ITS Program
UW EE junior Megan Swanson will attend the Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering Research at Berkeley (SUPERB) this June. The Information Technology for Sustainability (ITS) component is a general theme for the program, which promotes research for societal good. This year’s main focus on “Collecting and Using Big Data for the Public Good” reflects the overall…
March 3, 2017
Graduate Students Collaborate to Examine and Practice Neuroethics
By: Tommy Merth The direct combination of ethics and engineering research is not especially common in most laboratories. To address this unique challenge, two UW graduate students have teamed up to assess the ethical problems that arise from state-of-the-art neural engineering applications. Margaret Thompson is a Ph.D. student from the department of electrical engineering, while…
Alum Alanson Sample Develops Innovative Powering Device
By: Tommy Merth Imagine charging your iPhone wirelessly by simply walking into your house. Lately, the Wireless Systems group at Disney Pittsburgh Research has made remarkable progress towards this idea of ubiquitous wireless power transfer. Their innovative design can power multiple devices in a medium-sized room without posing any health risks. To accomplish this, the…
March 1, 2017
Startup BluHaptics Raises $1.3M to Bring Its Underwater Software to Space
BluHaptics, the software company pioneering new solutions for telerobotics, has secured $1.36 million. This investment follows more than a million dollars in recent U.S. government grants, which together will be used to support the company’s expansion and launch of its first commercially-available product. The startup was founded by UW Electrical Engineering Professor Howard Chizeck and then…
UW Researchers Turn Everyday Objects into FM Radio Stations
Imagine you’re waiting in your car and a poster for a concert from a local band catches your eye. What if you could just tune your car to a radio station and actually listen to that band’s music? Or perhaps you see the poster on the side of a bus stop. What if it could…
February 28, 2017
UW Security Researchers Show that Google’s AI Platform for Defeating Internet Trolls Can be Easily Deceived
University of Washington electrical engineering researchers have shown that Google’s new machine learning-based system to identify toxic comments in online discussion forums can be bypassed by simply misspelling or adding unnecessary punctuation to abusive words, such as “idiot” or “moron.” Perspective is a project by Google’s technology incubator Jigsaw, which uses artificial intelligence to combat…
February 22, 2017
Professors Blake Hannaford and Eric Klavins Named Amazon Catalyst Fellows
UW EE Professors Blake Hannaford and Eric Klavins have joined a community of innovators – The Amazon Catalyst Fellows. In a partnership with the University of Washington, Amazon Catalyst supports bold solutions to world problems. Professor Blake Hannaford and his team at the UW BioRobotics Lab received the fellowship for the development of an Intelligent…
February 17, 2017
Professor Shwetak Patel Delivers NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture on Health Mobile Apps
Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Endowed Professor in EE and CSE Shwetak Patel gave a lecture at the National Science Foundation’s Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Distinguished Lecture Series. In the lecture, Patel introduced his groundbreaking research in smartphone health monitoring. Patel and his colleagues are using mobile phones as monitoring devices for health…
February 16, 2017
Professor Jay Giri Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Election to become a member of the National Academy of Engineering is one of the highest professional honors accorded an engineer. UW EE Affiliate Professor Jay Giri received this prestigious honor for his significant contributions to utility control center technologies. Giri was recognized by his peers for his efforts to enhance grid situational awareness and…
February 9, 2017
Professor Matt Reynolds Works with Intellectual Ventures to Power Drones Wirelessly
In the early 1900s, Nikola Tesla envisioned a structure that could deliver power through air, without connectors. The Wardenclyffe Tower, also known as the Tesla Tower, became a lost dream when its investment dwindled. Associate Professor Matt Reynolds and his team at Intellectual Ventures are developing novel approaches to wireless power transmissions that make this…
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