February 3, 2015
Chris Rudell Honored with NSF CAREER Award
Assistant Professor Chris Rudell has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, a five-year $500,000 grant that promotes the development of faculty research and educational programs. Rudell’s proposed research seeks to explore and develop highly-integrated, ultra-broadband, and low-power transceivers, which achieve both low cost and small form factor by utilizing standard digital CMOS…
February 2, 2015
Radha Poovendran to Chair University of Washington’s EE Department
February 1, 2015
This man is the reason commercialization won’t stop when Michael Young leaves UW
January 12, 2015
Remembering Gaetano Borriello
The Department of Electrical Engineering sadly announces the recent passing of Adjunct Faculty Member Gaetano Borriello on February 1, 2015. The Jerre D. Noe Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, Borriello passed away at his home following a six-year long battle with cancer. Known for his dedication to students, Borriello was devoted to the UW,…
January 11, 2015
With a New Vision, C4C Becomes CoMotion
January 10, 2015
Mohamed El-Sharkawi Receives International Fulbright Fellow Award
Professor Mohamed El-Sharkawi is the recipient of the International Fulbright Fellow Award. The three-year grant allows El-Sharkawi to spend three months each year participating in ambitious renewable energy research in Morocco. By 2020, Morocco plans to produce 40% of its energy from renewable resources. To achieve this, five solar power plants are being built and…
January 9, 2015
Society of Women Engineers Recognizes Two Outstanding UW EE Students
Two UW EE students were recognized by the UW Society of Women Engineers (SWE) at their Evening with Industry Banquet on January 22. SWE Outstanding Female Awards for 2015 were awarded to one graduate and one undergraduate student from each engineering department. UW EE graduate student Tamara Bonaci and undergraduate student Joanna Hamilton were recognized…
January 8, 2015
UW EE Alum Suresh Subramaniam Named IEEE Fellow
Suresh Subramaniam, who received his Ph.D. from UW EE, was elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow, Class of 2015. He is honored for his contributions to optical network architectures, algorithms and performance modeling. Subramaniam is currently Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Washington University. His research…
January 7, 2015
Arka Majumdar Awarded AFOSR Young Investigator Research Grant
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Arka Majumdar, who was awarded an Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Research Program grant. One of 57 researchers selected from more than 200 proposals, Majumdar will receive $120,000 per year for three years to investigate a hybrid silicon/silica photonics platform for low-power digital optoelectronic switching and logic…
January 6, 2015
Shwetak Patel Appointed Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Endowed Professor
Congratulations to Shwetak Patel, who was recently appointed as the Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Endowed Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering. Patel is an Associate Professor in the departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering and directs a research group in the Ubicomp Lab. Patel’s research interests are in the areas of…
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