January 2, 2010
“Bumblebee” wins 2010 DAC/ISSCC Design Competition
A team from Professor Brian Otis’ Wireless Sensing Lab has been named a winner at the 2010 Design Automation Conference (DAC)/International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Design Competition. Their entry, titled “The Bumblebee: A 0.3 gram, 560uW, 0.1cm3 Wireless Biosignal Interface with 10-m Range”, was authored by Tim Morrison, Helen Zhang, Shailesh Rai, Jagdish Pandey, Jeremy…
December 1, 2009
Nabar and Wu win “Pride at Boeing” award
Sidharth Nabar and Tony Wu of EE’s Network Security Lab (NSL), working with Professor Radha Poovendran, received the Pride@Boeing award for their technology transition demo. The Pride@Boeing award is in recognition of exceptional performance at Boeing, and was presented to “show Boeing’s appreciation for the special effort and high impact contributions” they put forth on…
October 1, 2009
Lih Lin named 2010 IEEE Fellow
Professor Lih Lin has been named an IEEE Fellow, effective January 1, 2010. Her citation reads “for contributions to optical micro-electro-mechanical systems switching technologies”. More information on this distinguished program can be found on the IEEE’s “About IEEE Fellow Program” page. We would like to congratulate Lih for this well-deserved honor.
September 15, 2009
Larson, Cohn win Top Research Prize from Madrona Venture Group
At October’s CSE affiliates day, EE PhD students Gabe Cohn and Eric Larson – teaming up with CSE PhD students Jon Froehlich and Sidhant Gupta – won the Top Research Prize from the Madrona Venture Group. Their project on sustainability sensing was one of sixty projects competing for the top spot. In addition, they also…
September 12, 2009
Mani Soma named IEEE CAS President-Elect
Professor Mani Soma has been elected to serve as President-Elect of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in 2010, then stepping into the role as the society’s President in 2011. Congratulations go to Mani for this well-deserved honor.
August 1, 2009
Rahul Vanam wins “Best Student Paper”
EE graduate student Rahul Vanam was awarded “Best Student Paper” at the 2009 Western New York Image Processing workshop in Rochester, New York. Co-authors for “Joint Rate-Intelligibility-Complexity Optimization of an H.264 Video Encoder for American Sign Language” were Frank Ciaramello, Eve Riskin, Sheila Hemami and Richard Ladner. Professor Riskin is also Rahul’s advisor. Congratulations, Rahul!
July 3, 2009
Parviz and Otis awarded EFRI grant
EE faculty members Babak Parviz and Brian Otis, along with UW collaborators Buddy D. Ratner and Tueng Shen, have received a two million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation’s Office of Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI). The objective of their project, named “Second Window”, is to design, build, and test a fundamentally…
July 2, 2009
Young Scientist Award for Parmoon Seddighrad
We’ve just learned that Parmoon Seddighrad received the Young Scientist Best Paper Award for the paper that she presented at the 2008 European Solid-State Circuits Conference. The title of her presentation was “A 3.6GHz, 16mW ΣΔ DAC for a 802.11n / 802.16e transmitter with 30dB digital power control in 90nm CMOS.” Parmoon works with her…
July 1, 2009
Parmoon Seddighrad Wins Intel Fellowship
Parmoon Seddighrad, a graduate student in David Allstot’s System-On-Chip lab, has been selected as a 2009-10 Intel Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship Award winner. Her proposal was titled “Multi-standard CMOS RF Transmitter”. This renewable fellowship covers tuition and fees for one year, and provides a $23,000 stipend and a $1500 travel grant for Parmoon. Intel has also…
June 20, 2009
First Peden Fellowship awardee selected
Tamara Bonaci has been chosen as the first recipient of the Irene Peden Fellowship. She plans to focus her UW research in the areas of networking and system control, working with Professors Radha Poovendran and Linda Bushnell. Her ultimate goal is to do aviation research. “I am very proud to receive the fellowship established to…
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