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…
December 11, 2019
Dr. Stéphane Mallat delivers 2019 Lytle Lecture
The Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering’s 2019 Dean W. Lytle Endowed Lecture Series was held on Tuesday, December 3, 2019. 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…
Postdoctoral Researcher Shana Moothedath participates in Rising Stars 2019
Shana Moothedath, a postdoctoral research scholar at the ECE department’s Network Security Lab (NSL) at the University of Washington working with Prof. Radha Poovendran & Prof. Linda Bushnell, was selected to participate in the 2019 Rising Stars workshop conducted at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign from Oct 30 – Nov 1. Rising Stars is an…
December 9, 2019
ECE Professor Emeritus Akira Ishimaru elected lifetime fellow of URSI
Landing a plane in fog is possible thanks to the work of Akira Ishimaru, ECE Professor Emeritus, National Academy of Engineering member and one of the world’s top experts in wave propagation and scattering in random and turbulent media. His work on this topic has influenced advancements in ultrasound imaging, microwave remote sensing, satellite…
December 5, 2019
Jennifer Mankoff and Eve Riskin lead ECE’s co-sponsored UW EXP study
UW EXP is a student health and wellness study which uses surveys and biometrics (phone and Fitbit data) to study how personal and academic stressors affect student wellness. It is a sister study to Life@CMU and the StudentLife study at Dartmouth. This annual study adds to the growing field of biometric research, and UW EXP’s goal…
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