October 10, 2015
Pacific Science Center Exhibit Features Research by Howard Chizeck
A new Pacific Science Center exhibit features the work of EE Professor Howard Chizeck and students in theBioRobotics Lab. The exhibit, called “Memory: Past Meets Present,” focuses on how the brain retains information on repetitive actions performed by the body. The exhibit runs through March 6, 2016. One panel of the exhibit highlights the Deep…
October 8, 2015
Developed in UbiComp Lab, Low-Cost Camera Captures Unseen Details
A new low-cost camera that captures unseen details beneath surfaces has been developed by researchers in the UbiComp Lab. Led by EE & CSE Professor Shwetak Patel, the camera, called HyperCam, uses infrared as well as visible light to capture details that can’t be seen with the naked eye. The technology may pave the way…
October 7, 2015
Eli Shlizerman Appointed UW eScience Institute Data Science Fellow
UW EE faculty member Eli Shlizerman, who has a joint appointment in EE and Applied Mathematics, has been appointed a Data Science Fellow for the University of Washington’s eScience Institute. An associated grant from Washington Research Foundation will support his research to analyze complex dynamic networks, particularly the nervous system. Analyzing the nervous system is…
October 6, 2015
Alum Steve White Joins BluHaptics as VP of Engineering
UW EE alum Dr. Steve White (BS EE ’85) has joined BluHaptics as VP of Engineering. BluHaptics is a UW EE and Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) spinoff, founded in 2013. The software company fuses 2D and 3D video in real time to enable precision control of robots and drones. “Being in the undergraduate program was…
October 5, 2015
Eric Klavins’ Research Featured In Short, One-Act Play
What do you get when playwrights and synthetic biologists put their heads together? For Eric Klavins, UW EE associate professor, the result is something of a modern take on “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” In collaboration with the Infinity Box Theatre Project, Klavins worked with a playwright to develop a script for the “Thought Experiments on…
October 4, 2015
Future Women Engineers Celebrate Ada Lovelace Day
October 3, 2015
Memorial Scholarship Honors Alum Stephanie Subak
In honor of UW EE alum Stephanie Subak, who was an inspiration to students and an advocate for women in the electrical engineering field, Subak’s employer for more than 34 years, Fluke Corporation, has established the Stephanie Subak Memorial Scholarship. Subak, 58, passed away while doing what she loved—frequenting the outdoors. An avid outdoorswoman, Subak…
October 2, 2015
UW EE Alum Biswanath Mukherjee is a Highly Cited Researcher
UW EE alum Professor Biswanath Mukherjee (Ph.D. ’87) is listed as a highly cited researcher by Thomson Reuters in a report titled “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds.” After completing his Ph.D. at UW EE, Mukherjee joined the University of California, Davis, College of Engineering. Mukherjee served as chair of the Department of Computer Science…
SNUPI Start-up Sells WallyHome Sensor Technology to Sears
SNUPI Technologies, a start-up cofounded by UW EE and CSE Professors Shwetak Patel and Matt Reynolds, UW EE alum Gabe Cohn (Ph.D. ’14) and CSE alum Jeremy Jaech has sold its WallyHome sensor technology to Sears. SNUPI’s first product, the WallyHome water leak detection system alerts homeowners to problems such as water leaks by monitoring…
October 1, 2015
UW Ranked #11 in World by U.S. News & World Report
The University of Washington is ranked #11 by U.S. News & World Report for Best Global Universities for 2016. A total of 750 universities were evaluated and ranked based on several factors including reputation across the world and region, research, publications cited and international collaboration. The new ranking comes less than a month after Reuters…
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