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Alexander Mamishev

Alexander Mamishev
Associate Professor
Sensors, electric power applications, MEMS, robotics, and manufacturing automation
Room 215K
Department of Electrical Engineering
Box 352500
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195

Phone: (206) 221-5729
Fax: (206) 543-3842
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Director of the Sensors, Energy, and Automation Laboratory (SEAL)
Director of the Electrical Energy Industrial Consortium (EEIC)
Director of the Grainger Foundation Program
Director of the UW Industrial Assessment Center

Affiliations at UW:

Center for Process Analytical Chemistry
Center for Nanotechnology
Advanced Power Technologies Center
Astrobiology Program
FIRST SWAT Robotics Team

Education :

M.I.T., Electrical Eng. and Computer Science 1999, Ph.D.
Texas A&M University, 1994, M.S.E.E.
Kiev Polytechnic Institute, Electrical Eng. and Physics, 1992, B.S.

[Biosketch] [Honors] [Research Interests] [Research Projects] [Selected Publications] [ Recent Papers] [Book Chapters][Patents] [Active Grants] [Recent Grad Students]

Biosketch

Alexander V. Mamishev received an equivalent of B.S.E.E. degree from Kiev Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine in 1992, M.S.E.E from Texas A&M University in 1994, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 1999, with a minor in Technology Management from Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management. Currently he is an Associate Professor, Director of Sensors, Energy, and Automation Laboratory (SEAL), and Director of Electrical Energy Industrial Consortium (EEIC) in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle . Prof. Mamishev is an author of about 100 journal and conference papers, three book chapters, and two patents. His research interests include sensor design and integration, robotics, and energy technology applications. He serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation and a reviewer for several journals and conferences. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the IEEE Outstanding Branch Advisor Award, and the UW EE Outstanding Research Advisor Award.

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Honors

University faculty (1999-present):

Boeing Welliver Faculty Fellow, 2006
Outstanding Research Advisor Award, UW EE, 2003
NSF New Century Scholar, 2002
Best paper in the session award in Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics Conference, 2001
Outstanding IEEE Branch Advisor Award, 2001
Nominated for the UW CoE Outstanding Faculty Award, UW EE Outstanding Teaching Award, and UW EE Outstanding Research Advisor Award, 2001
NSF CAREER Award, 2001
Chair Award, UW EE, 2000

Graduate student (1992-1999)

American Vacuum Society Graduate Research Award, 1998
Link Foundation Energy Fellowship, 1998
Graduate Student Award finalist in the Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, 1997
American Public Power Association DEED Scholarship, 1997, 1994, 1993
IEEE Dielectric and Electrical Insulation Society Fellowship, 1995
IEEE Vincent Bendix Research Award, 1994
IEEE Power Engineering Society T. Burke Hayes Best Student Paper Award, 1994
MIT Graduate Student Council Travel Grant, 1998
IEEE CEIDP (Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena) Scholarship, 1998
Who'sWho in Science and Engineering in America , 1998
IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society International Symposium on Electrical Insulation Scholarship, 1998
Student Poster Contest at IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, Honorable Mention, 1998
Power Engineering Education Committee Student Travel Grant for IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, January 1998
Graduate Student Award finalist in the Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, 1997
NSF Student Support Grant for IEEE Power Engineering Society Meetings, 1995 and 1998
IEEE CEIDP (Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena) Scholarship, 1994
Texas A&M University Department of Electrical Engineering Scholarship, 1994
APICS Donald W. Fogarty International Student Paper Contest, 3rd Prize, Houston , 1994
ISS Texas A&M University Study Grant for Universities Power Engineering Conference, Ireland, 1994
NSF Student Support Grant for IEEE Power Engineering Society Meetings, 1994
Electrical Engineering Graduate Program Enhancement Scholarship, 1993
American Public Power Association Demonstration of Energy Efficient Developments Scholarship, 1993
Special One-Time Electrical Engineering Scholarship annually awarded by the Department of Electrical Engineering of Texas A&M University, 1993
Industrial Scholarship, 8-th International Symposium on High Voltage Engineering, Yokohama, Japan, 1993
Texas A&M University International Student Services Travel Grant, 1993
Petro Jacyk Scholarship, 1992
George Soros Educational Scholarship, 1992

Research Interests

Sensor design and integration, dielectrometry, electric , biomedical engineering, MEMS, and robotics. For more information, click here .

Research Projects

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Selected Publications

M. Philipose, J. R. Smith, J. Bing, A. Mamishev, S. Roy, and K. Sundara-Rajan, "Battery-Free Wireless Identification and Sensing," IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 37-45, 2005.

"Overhead Line Conductors," by invitation, section in the Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, vol. 15, pp. 463-474, John Wiley and Sons, 1999.

A.V. Mamishev, B.C. Lesieutre, and M. Zahn, "Optimization of Multi-Wavelength Interdigital Dielectrometry Instrumentation and Algorithms," IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation , vol. 5, no. 3, June 1998, pp. 408-420.

K. Sundara-Rajan, L. Byrd, and A. V. Mamishev, "Moisture Measurement in Paper Pulp Using Fringing Field Dielectrometry," IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 4, no. 3, 2004, pp. 378-383.

Recent Papers

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Book Chapters

Chapter
A.V. Mamishev, "Overhead Line Conductors," by invitation, section in the Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, vol. 15, pp. 463-474, John Wiley and Sons, 1999.

Chapter
K. Sundara-Rajan, A. V. Mamishev, and M. Zahn, "Fringing Electric and Magnetic Field Sensors," by invitation, Encyclopedia of Sensors, American Scientific Publishers, accepted.

Patents

N. Goldfine , M. Zahn, A.V. Mamishev, D. Schlicker, and A. P. Washabaugh, "Methods for Processing, Optimization, Calibration, and Display of Measured Dielectrometry Signals Using Property Estimation Grids," US Patent number 6,380,747, April 2002.

Active Grants

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Recent Graduate Students

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