September 3, 2015
Shwetak Patel Looks Under Hood: Shows Complex Car Software Has Weak Spots
September 2, 2015
UW EE and SJTU Commit to Smart Cities Collaboration
EE Chair Radha Poovendran, together with UW Interim President Ana Mari Cauce, signed a “Smart Cities” agreement today with leaders from the School of Electrical Information and Electrical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), including SJTU President Zhang Jie. EE Professors Jenq-Neng Hwang, Sumit Roy and Vikram Jandhyala, who is the UW Vice Provost…
September 1, 2015
EE Faculty Team Investigates Smart Grid Stability
A new NSF grant supports a team of EE faculty who are undertaking a novel approach to creating a more stable smart grid. Leading the research effort is EE ProfessorLinda Bushnell, who will be working together with EE Professor Daniel Kirschen, UW EE alum Andrew Clark (Ph.D. 2015), now an assistant professor at Worcester Polytechnic…
August 12, 2015
EE’s Baosen Zhang to Investigate Power Grid Users in Collaboration with Stanford University
UW EE Assistant Professor Baosen Zhang has received a National Science Foundation grant to investigate the relationship between people and the power grid, with the goal of making power systems more responsive to users’ complex and evolving needs. Leading the research effort, Zhang will work in collaboration with Ramesh Johari at Stanford University. In recent…
August 11, 2015
UW EE’s Karl Bohringer to Lead New NSF Center
UW is one of 16 sites selected nationwide to participate in the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) new National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) program, which has the objective of supporting researchers from academia and industry with access to the latest technologies. As part of the program, UW and Oregon State University have received a $4.5 million…
August 10, 2015
UW EE and Disney Researchers Create Wireless Camera Sensors
Combining two good ideas can lead to a great breakthrough. UW EE researchers in the Sensor Systems Lab, in collaboration with Disney Research, combined a battery-free camera project with a wirelessly powered localization project to produce battery-free smart camera nodes that are able to automatically determine their own location. The research may lead to large…
August 9, 2015
AccessMap Selected for eScience Institute Summer Program
An engineering student project aimed at helping others received a little extra help over the summer, fittingly enough. Thanks to the eScience Institute’s Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) summer program, an engineering student project led by UW EE Ph.D. student Nick Bolten has made more progress toward developing an app, calledAccessMap, that plans travel routes…
August 8, 2015
Arka Majumdar Receives Intel Early Career Award
Assistant Professor Arka Majumdar, who has a dual appointment in the Electrical Engineering and Physics Departments, has been honored with a2015 Intel Early Career Award. The award recognizes faculty members who show great promise as upcoming leaders in disruptive computing technologies, which are innovations that displace earlier technologies in ways the market does not anticipate….
August 7, 2015
MagnifiSense Technology Developed in UbiComp Lab
New technology developed by EE and CSE students in the UbiComp Lab, called MagnifiSense, is able to sense appliance usage and even indicates who in a household uses particular devices. The research team, led by Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering Associate Professor Shwetak Patel, is comprised of lead author and UW EE Ph.D….
August 6, 2015
Lillian Ratliff to Join UW EE in Fall 2016
UW EE is pleased to announce that Lillian Ratliff will join the department in the fall of 2016. Prior to joining UW, Ratliff will complete a year of postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, where she received her Ph.D. In addition to providing an ideal environment for her research and boasting a strong…
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