March 6, 2012
Shwetak Patel Awarded Sloan Fellowship
EE and CSE Professor Shwetak Patel has been selected as a 2012 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow. Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. Each year, these extraordinarily competitive two-year fellowships are awarded to researchers in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial…
March 5, 2012
Robot flash mob: Bots come out to dance, assist humanity on Red Square
March 4, 2012
Bright red phosphor is based on silicon quantum dots
March 3, 2012
Rico Malvar Elected to National Academy of Engineering
EE Affiliate Professor Henrique (Rico) Malvar has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Rico is Chief Scientist at Microsoft Research and has contributed substantially to EE’s programs as well as others at UW. His citation reads “for contributions to multiresolution signal processing and multimedia signal compression and standards”. Election to the Academy is…
March 2, 2012
UW launches technology startup incubator, aims to double startups in three years
March 1, 2012
Gabe Cohn Wins Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship
Graduate student Gabe Cohn has been awarded this year’s Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship. Out of the 198 nominees, Gabe is one of only twelve winners. Gabe works with Assistant Professor Shwetak Patel on embedded systems and VLSI in ubiquitous computing applications. Congratulations Gabe! More Information Gabe Cohn’s web page Ubiquitous Computing Lab
February 7, 2012
Atlas Receives the Virginia Merrill Bloedel Scholar Award
Professor Les Atlas has just received the prestigious Virginia Merrill Bloedel Scholar Award. This three-year Award is for Professor Atlas’ innovative new approach to signal processing for hearing research and devices. He has adapted the mathematical statistics behind modern 4G internet and the latest high-speed wi-fi communications to help understand how our normally-functioning auditory system…
February 6, 2012
UW develops diet aid designed to work with smartphone
February 4, 2012
Open-Source Surgical Robot Fuels University Research
February 3, 2012
Evening With Industry Career Fair
Evening With Industry (EWI) is a unique event for both students and employers. It consists of two components: a career fair during the day and an awards banquet in the evening. The awards banquet features a keynote speaker and honors outstanding female students from each of the engineering departments. Twenty-eight companies will be in attendance,…
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