UW ECE and Physics Professor Arka Majumdar and his students have collaborated with Princeton University to build a new type of compact camera engineered for computer vision. Their prototype uses optics for computing, significantly reducing power consumption and enabling the camera to identify objects at light speed.
UW ECE doctoral student Niveditha Kalavakonda is engineering an autonomous robotic assistant for providing surgical suction. This device is at the leading edge of technology and is helping to explore a new field: collaborative human-robot interaction in surgical environments.
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UW ECE faculty are leaders in microchip design and are known internationally for their creative, interdisciplinary approaches to chip design and development.
UW ECE Assistant Professor Kim Ingraham designs personalized, adaptive control strategies for assistive robotic devices, such as exoskeletons and powered wheelchairs. Her work brings people together from different backgrounds to produce more usable assistive robotic devices.
UW ECE Assistant Professor Sajjad Moazeni and graduate students in his lab are part of a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional research team developing a new, three-dimensional imaging system for early detection of lung cancer.