January 17, 2023

UW-led team receives $4.2M grant to develop AI-guided brain stimulation methods aimed at treating mental health disorders

By Wayne Gillam | UW ECE News Mental health could be considered a new frontier, one where the undiscovered landscape exists mostly in the brain. In this space, there are vast numbers of people impacted by mental illness, and there is a profound opportunity for science and technology to play an important role in bettering…


January 11, 2023

The Integrator 2022 is now available!

Dear UW ECE Community, I am thrilled to introduce the 2022 issue of The Integrator — UW ECE’s flagship annual magazine highlighting the Department’s extraordinary faculty research, student achievements, alumni stories, special events and more from this past year. 2022 was another extraordinary year for UW ECE. Our vibrant and supportive community of faculty, students…


January 3, 2023

Accelerating a quantum future


December 22, 2022

The sound of touch: UW and Microsoft researchers earn ISS 10-year Impact Award for advancing innovative interaction technique via on-body sensing

Adapted from an article by Kristin Osborne, Allen School Nearly a decade ago, well before mixed reality and the metaverse went mainstream, a team of researchers from the University of Washington’s UbiComp Lab and Microsoft Research were making noise within the human-computer interaction community with a novel approach to on-body sensing. Their technique, which leveraged…


December 8, 2022

Professor Kai-Mei Fu named 2023 Optica Fellow

By Wayne Gillam | UW ECE News UW ECE Professor Kai-Mei Fu was recently named a 2023 Optica Fellow for outstanding contributions to optics and photonics — the study of the fundamental properties of light and harnessing this knowledge in practical application. Fu received the honor for leading advances in characterization, synthesis, control and device…


December 2, 2022

Kyle Johnson and Adhyyan Narang named UW + Amazon Science Hub inaugural fellows

Adapted from an article by UW + Amazon Science Hub UW ECE alum Kyle Johnson and UW ECE doctoral student Adhyyan Narang have been named inaugural Amazon Fellows by the UW + Amazon Science Hub. The Science Hub is directed by Joshua Smith, who is the Milton and Delia Zeutschel Professor in Entrepreneurial Excellence at UW…


November 21, 2022

Professor Kai-Mei Fu leads establishment of UW Graduate Certificate in Quantum Information Science and Engineering

By Wayne Gillam | UW ECE News This fall, a new graduate certificate program at the University of Washington began training students in an emerging, fast-growing field that blends information science based on principles of quantum mechanics with development of new technologies. The UW Graduate Certificate in Quantum Information Science and Engineering provides students with…


November 17, 2022

UW ECE is hiring two tenure-track Assistant Professors!

Want to teach at one of the top universities in the world? UW ECE is hiring two tenure-track assistant professors! The positions are full-time, multi-year appointments with 9-month service periods and with an anticipated start date of September 1, 2023. For full consideration, applicants must submit all materials no later than December 1. Apply here!…


November 2, 2022

Originating from UW research, Zap Energy is on its way to making sustainable energy from nuclear fusion a practical reality

By Wayne Gillam | UW ECE News When most people hear the words “nuclear power,” it is nuclear fission that first comes to mind — often represented in the news by pictures of massive, concrete power plants and cooling towers. This type of energy production is capable of producing enormous amounts of electricity from splitting…


October 26, 2022

IFDS workshop brings together data science experts to explore ways of making algorithms that learn from data more robust and resilient

Article by Wayne Gillam, Photos by Ryan Hoover | UW ECE News Artificial intelligence, machine learning and the mathematical algorithms that underpin these technologies affect our lives every day. For example, recommender systems within Netflix and Spotify learn our interests and serve up movies and music accordingly, natural language processing within assistants such as Siri…



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