April 7, 2016
Two EE Student Teams Place in Environmental Innovation Challenge
At the eighth annual Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge (EIC) on March 31, two teams with UW EE students received “Judges Also Really Liked” awards. Out of a total of 23 teams from seven universities throughout Washington state, six teams included UW EE students. Held at Seattle Center, the competition encourages student teams to present…
April 6, 2016
Undergrad David Dolengewicz Receives Mary Gates Research Scholarship
EE junior David Dolengewicz has been awarded a Mary Gates Research Scholarship, which will fund his research on how humans hear pitch. A competitive scholarship program, Mary Gates Research Scholarships allow students more time to focus on research by reducing their financial burden. Dolengewicz will be working with Professor Les Atlas to research how humans…
April 5, 2016
Sam Burden Receives NSF CPS Research Initiation Award
Assistant Professor Sam Burden has been honored with a Research Initiation Initiative Award from the Cyber-Physical Systems Program in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation. The two-year award provides early-career investigators with resources to recruit their first graduate students and initiate research projects. The award supports Burden’s work to…
April 4, 2016
EE Community Grieves Loss of Faculty Member Daniel Dailey
The Department of Electrical Engineering sadly announces the recent passing of faculty member Daniel Dailey on March 28, 2016, at the age of 60. A research professor who specialized in intelligent transportation, Dailey most recently resided in Washington D.C., where he worked as a visiting scientist at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center and the Saxton Transportation Operations…
April 3, 2016
Amazon Alumni Mixer on April 5
Amazon Alumni Mixer Tuesday, April 5, 6:30-8:30pm Amazon Campus Van Vorst Building 426 Terry Ave. North Seattle, WA 98109 *please use south entrance near Amazon reception View the location on a map. Directions From I-5 Northbound and Southbound: Take Exit 167 for Mercer St toward Seattle Center. Turn left onto Fairview Ave N. Turn…
April 2, 2016
Passive Wi-Fi Paper Wins 2016 NSDI Best Paper Award
A Passive Wi-Fi paper presented this week by EE and CSE researchers at the 13th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation has received the 2016 Best Paper Award. Congratulations to the research team: EE Adjunct Faculty member and assistant professor of computer science & engineering Shyam Gollakota, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science…
April 1, 2016
UW EE Ranked #19 by U.S. News & World Report
UW Electrical Engineering is ranked #19 in U.S. News & World Report’s recent listing of the best graduate schools for 2017. Congratulations to UW EE’s faculty, students and staff who make the department a place of excellence and increased collaboration! View the list of the top Electrical Engineering Programs. View the list of the top Computer…
March 27, 2016
Congratulations to Newly Promoted Faculty
Congratulations to faculty members Chris Rudell, Eric Klavins and Katrin Kirchhoff, who have all been promoted. Klavins and Rudell’s promotions are effective September 2016 and Kirchhoff’s promotion is effective July 2016. Chris Rudell: Promoted to Associate Professor for his deep expertise in analog VLSI and low-power hardware. Eric Klavins: Promoted to Full Professor for his…
March 26, 2016
FingerIO Technology Tracks Finger Motions Using Sonar
Imagine gesturing in thin air to press a button or scroll through pages on a smartphone or smartwatch, without ever touching the device. New technology, called FingerIO, is making this a reality. Developed in Shyam Gollakota’s Networks & Mobile Systems Lab by EE Ph.D. student Vikram Iyerand CSE Ph.D. studentRajalakshmi Nandakumar, FingerIO makes it easier…
March 25, 2016
Battery Informatics Start-up Presented at Congressional Showcase
An energy storage optimization start-up, which was founded by an interdisciplinary team of students, including EE graduate student Mushfiqur Sarker, was presented at the Advanced Research Projects Agency- Energy (ARPA-E) Innovation Summit at the nation’s capital in early March. Out of several hundred ARPA-E projects, this was one of only six in the nation to…
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