November 15, 2016

Advisor, Dana Hansen, Receives Top Advising Award

The Department of Electrical Engineering’s advisor, Dana Hansen, received the 2016 NACADA (National Academic Advising Association) Outstanding New Advisor Certificate of Merit. This award is given in recognition of Hansen’s abilities as an advisor in an international competition. The selection committee conferred that Hansen demonstrates exceptional merit in her advising efforts. With over 10,000 members,…


November 14, 2016

Graduate Student, Katherine Pratt, Speaks with KUOW on Returning from Military Life

Electrical Engineering Ph.D. student, Katherine Pratt, sat down with KUOW to discuss the feelings veterans experience upon returning from service. For Pratt, coming home was disorienting. “It was so bizarre; it really was,” Pratt said. I was glad to be done, but at the same time there was almost an emptiness of I no longer…


UW plans for an inclusive innovation district

By: Praphanit Doowa The University District has a lot to offer the neighboring Seattle community, and new shops and businesses are constantly opening as a result. It can be difficult to find space in the U-District, but the UW has taken a recently opened space, 4545 Roosevelt Way NE, and has officially signed the lease. “The…


Professor Bilmes and Grad Student Wenruo Bai Receive Best Paper Award

Electrical Engineering Professor Jeffrey Bilmes and Ph.D. student, Wenruo Bai, receive the ACM-BCB 2016 Best Paper Award. The paper is titled “Bipartite matching generalizations for peptide identification in tandem mass spectrometry.” Bai is lead author on the paper. Genome Sciences Professor and Computer Science Professor William Noble is an additional author on the paper.  The authors…


November 10, 2016

Alumni Launch the First All-in-One Connected Lock

UW EE alumni, Ehsan Saeedi (Ph.D. ’10) and Harvey Ho (M.S. ’07), released a revolutionary new smart lock. Within one week of pre-sales on Indiegogo, the largest global crowdfunding site, the product, Gate, exceeded its initial funding goal. Gate is the world’s first camera-equipped smart lock, featuring a motion activated camera, speaker, call button, and keypad….


November 3, 2016

New Faculty Hire Profile: Azadeh Yazdan-Shahmorad

Azadeh Yazdan-Shahmorad joins UW next fall as the Washington Research Foundation Innovation Assistant Professor of Neuroengineering in the departments of bioengineering and electrical engineering. Azadeh is the recipient of two postdoctoral fellowships from the American Heart Association, providing funding for her current research at the University of California, San Francisco. She has developed new tools and…


New Faculty Hire Profile: Amy Orsborn

Amy Orsborn will join UW in January 2018 as the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering and in Bioengineering. Amy works at the interface of engineering and neuroscience to study motor learning and to improve brain-machine interfaces (BMI) to restore motor function to people with disabilities such as limb loss, stroke or spinal…


Two New Star Faculty Bring Excellence in Neuroengineering

The Department of Electrical Engineering is proud to announce the recruitment of two new faculty members in neuroengineering. Amy Orsborn and Azadeh Yazdan-Shahmorad join the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering as tenure-track assistant professors. The two faculty bring robust expertise in neuroengineering and neural computation. They will join outstanding UW teams in brain-machine interfaces, neuronal…


October 24, 2016

Professor Patel Wins Best Paper at Two Renowned Conferences

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering Shwetak Patel and researchers from his UbiComp Lab received two Best Paper awards. “HemaApp: Noninvasive blood screening of hemoglobin using smartphone cameras” earned a Best Paper Award at the International Joint Conference on Pervasive & Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2016) in Heidelberg, Germany, and “EyeContact: Scleral coil eye tracking for virtual reality”…


Professor Georg Seelig and Collaborators Win “Best of What’s New” Award

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering Georg Seelig and collaborators at UW CSE and Microsoft received the “Best of What’s New” Award from Popular Science for their work on DNA storage. In the 2016 “Best of What’s New” Awards announced Wednesday, Popular Science recognized the technique developed by UW and Microsoft…



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