May 6, 2009

Otis Receives NSF 2009 CAREER Award

Assistant Professor Brian Otis has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for his proposal titled “A Scalable, Ultra-Low Power Active Fabric for ECoG.” Award funding runs from 2009 to 2014. More information regarding his award can be found on the NSF website. Congratulations to Brian!


May 3, 2009

Kuang-Wei Cheng receives ‘Best Paper’ award

At the recent annual IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), held in Boston, EE graduate student Kuang-Wei Cheng was selected from among 107 competitors to receive the Best Student Paper Award for his paper “A Gate-Modulated CMOS LC Quadrature VCO”. The paper was co-authored with Professor David Allstot. Congratulations to Kuang-Wei!


May 1, 2009

Sergey Feldman Wins Bonderman Travel Fellowship

Congratulations are in order for graduate student Sergey Feldman, student of Maya Gupta, who has been awarded a unique-to-UW 2009 Bonderman Travel Fellowship by the Graduate School. Bonderman fellows are awarded funding for international travel for eight or more months, to six or more countries in two or more major regions of the world. Through…


April 20, 2009

New book co-authored by two EE alumni

  Yasmin Karimli   Jun Liu Yasmin Karimli ( BSEE 1993, MSEE 1995) and Jun Liu ( MSEE 1999, Ph.D. 2003) have co-authored a new book, HSPA Performance and Evolution: A practical perspective, just published by John Wiley and Sons. After graduating from UWEE, Yasmin entered the telecommunications industry and is currently the Head of…


April 9, 2009

Gupta, Hauck, and Heaton Win Community of Innovator Awards

Scott Hauck has been named the 2009 winner of the College of Engineering’s Faculty Innovator: Teaching and Learning award. This award is based on innovative and lasting contributions to engineering education, as well as showing a high-level commitment to students both in and outside of the classroom. Maya Gupta has been named the 2009 winner…


April 6, 2009

Brian Pepin wins Dean’s Medal

Brian Pepin, an undergraduate student here in Electrical Engineering, has been honored as a 2009 Dean’s Medal recipient. The winners were selected based on academic excellence, research and industry experience, campus and community involvement, and faculty recommendation letters. The medals are scheduled to be presented at College of Engineering’s Community of Innovators Awards ceremony on…


March 10, 2009

Patrick Tague wins ‘Best Student Paper’

At the recent 18th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communication (PIMRC), held in Athens, EE graduate student Patrick Tague was awarded the Best Student Paper Award for his paper “Probabilistic Mitigation of Control Channel Jamming via Random Key Distribution”. The paper was co-authored with EE PhD graduate Dr. Mingyan Li…


March 5, 2009

Frank Sun wins Fulbright Fellowship

Frank Sun, a graduate student working with Professor David Allstot in the System-on-Chip lab, has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship. The Fulbright Grant, sponsored by the State Department, is for research to be conducted at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U. Leuven) in Belgium during the 2009-2010 academic year. Frank will be working on circuits for…


February 20, 2009

Two graduate students win NDSEG Fellowships

Will Biederman   Dan Yeager Professor Brian Otis reports that two of his EE graduate students, Dan Yeager and Will Biederman, have been awarded National Defense Science and Engineering (NDSEG) graduate fellowships. The NDSEG is a prestigious three-year Ph.D. fellowship offered to only about 200 students nationwide each year. The program is intended “as a…


February 15, 2009

Lih Lin Promoted

Congratulations to Professor Lih Lin on her promotion to Full Professor, effective September 16, 2009. Professor Lin has made excellent research contributions in Optical MEMS, Quantum Dot Nanophotonic Integrated Circuits, and Optical Plasmonic Tweezers. One of her recent research efforts is in biomedical applications of photonics, particularly in developing a new integrated endoscope system. The…



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