April 10, 2017
Graduate and Undergraduate Students Receive Second Place at EIC Competition for Environmental Innovation
Each year, over 15 billion batteries are discarded into landfills. Batteries contain many hazardous materials like nickel, cadmium, and cobalt and corrosive acids that eventually leach into the environment and contaminate the air, water and land. It takes around 100 years for a battery to decompose. However, even after decomposition, the chemicals within the battery…
April 5, 2017
Graduate Students Mayoore Jaiswal and Kevin Lybarger Named Husky 100
By: Tommy Merth Graduate students Mayoore Jaiswal and Kevin Lybarger have been named two of the 2017 Husky 100, a distinction given to the one hundred most impactful UW students of the academic year. Recipients must display passion and leadership in their respective fields, while promoting a more inclusive community. UW EE had the opportunity to…
April 3, 2017
UW Security Researchers Show that Google’s AI Tool for Video Searches Can Be Easily Deceived
Security researchers in the Department of Electrical Engineering have shown that Google’s new AI tool for videos can be easily tricked by quick video editing. The tool, which uses machine learning to automatically analyze and label video content, can be deceived by inserting a photograph periodically and at a very low rate into videos. After the researchers inserted…
March 29, 2017
Professor Eve Riskin Talks Women and STEM at Starbucks Seminar
Associate Dean of Diversity and Access and Professor Eve Riskin was a featured speaker at last month’s “Advancing Women in STEM” seminar at Starbucks. The seminar, which addressed challenges and solutions for Women in STEM studies (science, technology, engineering and math), was held at Starbucks’ headquarters. The event was hosted by the Starbucks Women’s Development Network (WDN). “I really appreciate Starbucks’…
March 23, 2017
Professor Sreeram Kannan Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program offers the NSF’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. The NSF rewards these activities as they…
March 21, 2017
UW Radio Researchers Break World Record with Full Duplex Communication
Nearly all commercial mobile transceivers (cellular phones, WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) operate in the radio frequency band (1-to-5 GHz [gigahertz]). Due to favorable properties such as the required size of hardware and radio signal propagation loss, the 1-to-5 GHz band is considered the “beachfront real estate” of spectrum allocation. One gigahertz is equal to 1 billion…
March 16, 2017
Professors Lillian Ratliff and Andrew Clark Receive Competitive NSF CRII Grants
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) grant supports faculty early in their careers as a way to establish research independence. Each year, the NSF awards only 25 to 30 grants nationwide. Electrical Engineering Assistant Professor Lillian Ratliff received the grant for her work entitled “Emerging Markets and Myopic Decision-Making in Multi-Modal Transportation…
March 13, 2017
Undergraduate Student, Megan Swanson, Admitted to SUPERB-ITS Program
UW EE junior Megan Swanson will attend the Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering Research at Berkeley (SUPERB) this June. The Information Technology for Sustainability (ITS) component is a general theme for the program, which promotes research for societal good. This year’s main focus on “Collecting and Using Big Data for the Public Good” reflects the overall…
March 3, 2017
Graduate Students Collaborate to Examine and Practice Neuroethics
By: Tommy Merth The direct combination of ethics and engineering research is not especially common in most laboratories. To address this unique challenge, two UW graduate students have teamed up to assess the ethical problems that arise from state-of-the-art neural engineering applications. Margaret Thompson is a Ph.D. student from the department of electrical engineering, while…
Alum Alanson Sample Develops Innovative Powering Device
By: Tommy Merth Imagine charging your iPhone wirelessly by simply walking into your house. Lately, the Wireless Systems group at Disney Pittsburgh Research has made remarkable progress towards this idea of ubiquitous wireless power transfer. Their innovative design can power multiple devices in a medium-sized room without posing any health risks. To accomplish this, the…
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