March 4, 2020
ECE professor Kai-Mei Fu and graduate student Srivatsa Chakravarthi featured in latest episode of Microsoft’s Quantum Impact series
According to LinkedIn, quantum-related job postings have increased 180% and major universities play a key role in developing the next generation of quantum programmers, scientists, engineers and researchers. The University of Washington is a great place to learn about how universities are advancing quantum knowledge. The UW is home to the QuantumX initiative, which partnered with…
February 25, 2020
GIX student team “SnapSort!” advances to finals of Microsoft Imagine Cup
For nearly two decades, students from around the world have competed in the Imagine Cup, Microsoft’s premier international technology competition for young developers, for the chance to win travel, mentoring, cash and prizes, not to mention the coveted trophy. The SnapSort! team is comprised of members Chun-An Ku, Yun Liu and Joey Wang, graduate students…
February 18, 2020
Built in Washington: Chase Deitner
For Chase Deitner, competing and engineering are all part of his daily routine. From racing for UW’s Mens Rowing team in “long pair races” in the morning, to taking electrical engineering exams during the day, and then running a stadium in the afternoon, Chase always finds himself striving to be the best. Living in Perth,…
February 12, 2020
Student-led team “SENSOL Systems” places 3rd in Science & Technology Showcase
It’s a dark and rainy night. You step into a crosswalk. A car comes screeching towards you, barely missing you. Luckily, you are not one of the 6,000+ pedestrians killed last year nationally in traffic collisions. SENSOL Systems believes these deaths are preventable! SENSOL is developing an ADA-compliant modular crosswalk addition that overlays onto the…
February 11, 2020
Ph.D. students’ podcast “Paper Boys” delivers
Two UW engineering Ph.D. students, ECE’s James Rosenthal and A&A’s Charlie Kelly, co-host the “Paper Boys” podcast, a weekly unpacking of science papers with astonishing or absurd headlines covered in the media. “Early humans hooked up with other species a whole bunch” and “An alien spaceship may have passed by Earth in 2017, Harvard scientists say” are real…
February 6, 2020
The one ring — to track your finger’s location
Smart technology keeps getting smaller. There are smartphones, smartwatches and now, smart rings – devices that allow someone to use simple finger gestures to control other technology. Researchers at the University of Washington have created AuraRing, a ring and wristband combination that can detect the precise location of someone’s index finger and continuously track hand…
January 16, 2020
The Integrator 2019 now available online!
To read this issue of The Integrator online or download PDF, click here.
December 18, 2019
Watch Professor Stéphane Mallat’s full Lytle Lecture Series videos now!
The Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering’s 2019 Dean W. Lytle Endowed Lecture Series videos are now available! The Lytle Lecture Series is the department’s premier annual event, featuring internationally renowned researchers in the field of communications, signal processing, control systems and machine learning. This year we were extremely excited to have the world-renowned applied mathematician…
December 13, 2019
Professor Joshua R. Smith Honored as IEEE Fellow
Joshua R. Smith, the Milton and Delia Zeutschel Professor in Entrepreneurial Excellence and the Professional Masters Program Faculty Coordinator in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, who also holds a joint appointment in the Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at UW, was named a Fellow of the IEEE in recognition of…
December 12, 2019
Alum Jesus Contreras Ocaña attends Make Our Planet Great Again event
ECE Alum Jesus Contreras Ocaña, who graduated from UW with his masters in Electrical Engineering in 2015 and Ph.D. in Power Systems in 2018, recently attended the second anniversary event of French President Emmanuel Macron’s “Make Our Planet Great Again” initiative. This past October, Contreras Ocaña concluded a one-year post-doctoral research fellowship at the Université de…
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