April 4, 2016

EE Community Grieves Loss of Faculty Member Daniel Dailey

The Department of Electrical Engineering sadly announces the recent passing of faculty member Daniel Dailey on March 28, 2016, at the age of 60. A research professor who specialized in intelligent transportation, Dailey most recently resided in Washington D.C., where he worked as a visiting scientist at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center and the Saxton Transportation Operations…


April 3, 2016

Amazon Alumni Mixer on April 5

Amazon Alumni Mixer Tuesday, April 5, 6:30-8:30pm Amazon Campus Van Vorst Building 426 Terry Ave. North Seattle, WA 98109 *please use south entrance near Amazon reception View the location on a map.   Directions From I-5 Northbound and Southbound: Take Exit 167 for Mercer St toward Seattle Center. Turn left onto Fairview Ave N. Turn…


April 2, 2016

Passive Wi-Fi Paper Wins 2016 NSDI Best Paper Award

A Passive Wi-Fi paper presented this week by EE and CSE researchers at the 13th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation has received the 2016 Best Paper Award. Congratulations to the research team: EE Adjunct Faculty member and assistant professor of computer science & engineering Shyam Gollakota, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science…


April 1, 2016

UW EE Ranked #19 by U.S. News & World Report

UW Electrical Engineering is ranked #19 in U.S. News & World Report’s recent listing of the best graduate schools for 2017. Congratulations to UW EE’s faculty, students and staff who make the department a place of excellence and increased collaboration! View the list of the top Electrical Engineering Programs. View the list of the top Computer…


March 27, 2016

Congratulations to Newly Promoted Faculty

Congratulations to faculty members Chris Rudell, Eric Klavins and Katrin Kirchhoff, who have all been promoted. Klavins and Rudell’s promotions are effective September 2016 and Kirchhoff’s promotion is effective July 2016. Chris Rudell: Promoted to Associate Professor for his deep expertise in analog VLSI and low-power hardware. Eric Klavins: Promoted to Full Professor for his…


March 26, 2016

FingerIO Technology Tracks Finger Motions Using Sonar

Imagine gesturing in thin air to press a button or scroll through pages on a smartphone or smartwatch, without ever touching the device. New technology, called FingerIO, is making this a reality. Developed in Shyam Gollakota’s Networks & Mobile Systems Lab by EE Ph.D. student Vikram Iyerand CSE Ph.D. studentRajalakshmi Nandakumar, FingerIO makes it easier…


March 25, 2016

Battery Informatics Start-up Presented at Congressional Showcase

An energy storage optimization start-up, which was founded by an interdisciplinary team of students, including EE graduate student Mushfiqur Sarker, was presented at the Advanced Research Projects Agency- Energy (ARPA-E) Innovation Summit at the nation’s capital in early March. Out of several hundred ARPA-E projects, this was one of only six in the nation to…


March 24, 2016

EE Students Participate in First Annual Health Innovation Challenge

At the first annual Health Innovation Challenge held on March 3, three of 18 participating interdisciplinary teams contained electrical engineering students. Congratulations to teams Walk n’ Roll, OstomyTech and Appropriate Solutions for being selected to participate in the selective tradeshow-style competition, where students pitched their innovative projects. Hosted by the Foster School’s Buerk Center for…


March 23, 2016

Entrepreneurial Students Present Project at Booz Allen Hamilton Idea Fest

As part of UW EE’s new Entrepreneurial Engineering Capstone Course, which kicked-off winter quarter 2016, students collaborating with Booz Allen Hamilton presented their project at the annual Booz Allen Hamilton Idea Fest, at the Columbia Tower, on Saturday, March 5. The student team is comprised of UW EE seniors Philip David, Kevin Fukuhara, Kyle Lashbrook,…


March 22, 2016

Four Faculty Receive Google Research Awards

Chris Rudell Joshua Smith Hannaneh Hajishirzi Shyam Gollakota Congratulations to faculty members Chris Rudell, Joshua Smith, Hannaneh Hajishirzi and Shyam Gollakota who received Google Research Awards. The funding covers tuition for one graduate student and allows faculty and students to work with Google engineers and researchers. A total of 151 projects were funded from 950…



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