September 12, 2017
New hire, Brian Johnson, brings expertise in power electronics
This spring, Dr. Brian Johnson will advance the UW Department of Electrical Engineering’s (UW EE) research in power and energy systems by introducing new courses and research in power electronics. Dr. Johnson currently works at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL) Power Systems Engineering Center. His research at NREL focuses on bridging advances in contemporary…
September 11, 2017
An MoU between IITH and the UW build a partnership on cyber physical systems, smart cities
Although the India Institute of Technology – Hyderabad (IITH) and the University of Washington (UW) are over 7,700 miles away, research interests draw the two institutions closer together. In May, IITH and the UW Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (UW ECE) joined forces through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), fostering a partnership on Cyber…
September 7, 2017
Professor Sumit Roy receives Best Paper at 2017 WNS3 Workshop
The paper, entitled “Link-to-System Mapping for ns-3 Wi-Fi OFDM Error Models,” was awarded the top paper prize at the annual WNS3 Workshop. The paper investigates Wi-Fi OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) performance over AWGN (additive white Gaussian noise) and fading channels, developing an ns-3 ErrorRateModel based on tables compiled from link simulation results. This research…
September 6, 2017
UW researchers developing a smartphone app to screen for concussion and brain injury
Associate Professor Shwetak Patel and a team from UbiComp Lab are developing PupilScreen, a smartphone app to screen for concussion.
August 31, 2017
UW Team named finalist in $2.5M Amazon Alexa Prize
The team, made up of UW graduate students in electrical engineering and computer science, is one of three in the world to make it to the finals. The inaugural $2.5 million Amazon Alexa Prize is the first of its kind for the company, asking students from around the globe to build a “socialbot” that can…
August 28, 2017
UW researchers develop new app to screen for pancreatic cancer
August 24, 2017
Professors Fazel and Kakade co-lead NSF TRIPODS Award to advance state of the art in data science
UW Electrical Engineering (UW EE) Professor Maryam Fazel and Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering Professor Sham Kakade are co-directors on a three-year $1.5 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Transdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science (TRIPODS) program to develop new algorithmic tools that will advance the state of the art in…
August 21, 2017
Leading-edge research accelerates scalable clean energy innovations
August 16, 2017
Quantum Internet will connect the world in 13 years
August 9, 2017
UW EE-based team wins AI City Challenge
A team of graduate students and researchers, led by UW Electrical Engineering (UW EE) Professor Jenq-Neng Hwang won the Track 2 challenge in the IEEE Smart World NVIDIA AI City Challenge. Estimations assert that there will be 1 billion cameras on the road by 2020. These cameras present a significant opportunity for transportation; their data can offer actionable…
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