November 1, 2012
UW EE Entrepreneurs Recognized at the 2012 C4C Innovator Awards
Professor and Chair Vikram Jandhyala was recognized at the UW Center for Commercialization Innovator Awards on November 5th, 2012 as a UW Presidential Entrepreneurial Fellow. EE alumnus Dr. Arun Sathanur (MSEE ’06, PhD ’09) was also recognized as a C4C Commercialization Postdoctoral Fellow. Jandhyala and Sathanur presented posters on their latest work from the UW…
October 5, 2012
Patel Receives Georgia Tech GVU Impact Award
EE and CSE professor Shwetak Patel was honored with an “Impact Award” at the 20th anniversary celebration of the Georgia Tech GVU Center (Graphics, Visualization, and Usability). Patel received his BS and PhD degrees from Georgia Tech and was recognized for his research excellence where he “studies everything from low-power sensors to novel interaction techniques.”…
October 4, 2012
Vanam Receives VCIP 2012 Best Reviewer Award
Alumnus Rahul Vanam was selected as the winner of a best reviewer award for this year’s IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing Conference. Only six people received this award out of over 200 reviewers. Vanam received his PhD from UW EE in 2010, and was advised by Professors Eve Riskin and Richard Ladner. Congratulations Rahul!…
October 3, 2012
Brandon Pierquet – A STARS Researcher
UW EE assistant professor Brandon Pierquet has been selected to receive $764,000 from the Washington State STARS Researcher Program. The Strategically Targeted Academic Researchers (STARS) program was created to support new faculty conducting innovative research in Washington State to promote both product innovation and longer-term statewide economic development. Pierquet joined the UW EE faculty in…
October 2, 2012
SprioSmart app lets phone accurately measure lung capacity
October 1, 2012
The original Twitter? Tiny electronic tags monitor birds’ social networks
September 6, 2012
Big Data Gets Its Own Photo Album
September 5, 2012
Gabe Cohn Awarded Ubicomp 2012 Best Paper
A paper submitted by UWEE graduate student (and Microsoft Research consultant) Gabe Cohn has been named “Best Paper” at the 14th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing in Pittsburgh. The award was given to his paper “ An Ultra-Low-Power Human Body Motion Sensor Using Static Electric Field Sensing“. Gabe is advised by Professor Shwetak Patel, who…
September 4, 2012
Kai-Mei Fu Receives 2012 NSF CAREER Award
Kai-Mei Fu, assistant professor of UW EE and Physics, has received a 2012 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. Her proposal is titled, “A ‘holistic’ approach toward scalable quantum optical networks in semiconductors.” CAREER awards are aimed to support junior faculty who “exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration…
September 3, 2012
Featured Engineer Interview – Karl Böhringer
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