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…
August 8, 2017
Alum Vamsi Talla receives the ACM SIGCOMM dissertation award
Vamsi Talla (Ph.D. ’16) was awarded the ACM SIGCOMM 2016 Doctoral Dissertation Award for his Ph.D. thesis in Computer Networking and Data Communication. His thesis, entitled “Power, Communication and Sensing Solutions for Energy Constrained Platforms,” introduces new techniques to build low-power sensors and devices that consume no energy beyond what is already in the air. In the…
July 24, 2017
Researchers construct computational circuit boards with DNA
Spatial organization as a tool for the spread of materials and information is a well-practiced concept. In Mesopotamia, it was used to coax water through a matrix of small channels to water crops. More recently, it has been used to operate semiconductor circuitry. In nature, spatial organization is used by living cells to control the…
July 21, 2017
Professor Kannan receives NSF grant to improve groundbreaking nanopore sequencing of DNA
UW electrical engineering Assistant Professor Sreeram Kannan leads a $1.2 million collaborative National Science Foundation (NSF) Communications and Information Foundations (CIF) Grant. The research aims to design new algorithms for sequencing DNA using nanopore readers. Fast and inexpensive DNA sequencing technology is beginning to impact society through applications ranging from personalized medicine to the understanding…
July 19, 2017
8 faculty named 2017 Amazon Catalyst Fellows
UW EE Professors Les Atlas, Karl Böhringer, Howard Chizeck, Blake Hannaford, Eric Klavins, Arka Majumdar, Shwetak Patel and Joshua Smith were awarded the 2017 Amazon Catalyst Fellowship. In a partnership with the University of Washington, Amazon Catalyst supports bold solutions to world problems. The program provides funding, mentorship and community to the innovative projects. Congratulations to…
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