Teaching Computers to Recognize Human Actions in Videos
UW ECE team of researchers present their unique 'unsupervised' approach to action recognition this week at major Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2020 conference.
UW ECE’s Computer and Network research includes computer architecture and computer system engineering, VLSI, embedded computing, wireless networks, and wireless communication research. Several of UW ECE’s Computers and Networking faculty hold joint and secondary appointments in computer science and engineering and teach jointly in the Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering departments.
Computer Engineering and Architecture
Operating systems, performance analysis, and testbed development, FPGA based computing architectures
Faculty: Visvesh Sathe, Scott Hauck, Matt Reynolds, C.J. Richard Shi, Joshua Smith, Mani Soma, Michael Taylor
Very-Large-Scale Integration (VLSI)
Analog and digital VLSI integrated circuits, devices, and applications, energy management
Faculty: Visvesh Sathe, Jacques Christophe Rudell, C.J. Richard Shi, Mani Soma, Michael Taylor
Embedded Systems
Mobile devices, embedded control systems, real-time systems, tools and networks
Faculty: Matt Reynolds, Shwetak Patel, Joshua Smith, Sumit Roy, Michael Taylor
Wireless Communication
Internet architecture, network economics, distributed systems, developing country infrastructure
Faculty: Radha Poovendran, Sumit Roy, James Ritcey, Payman Arabshahi, John D. Sahr, Yasuo Kuga
Cybersecurity
Network security, game theory, statistical modeling, machine learning and control and systems theory
Faculty: Radha Poovendran, Payman Arabshahi, Linda Bushnell
Latest News
UW ECE faculty and students respond to COVID-19
UW ECE faculty and students are leading collaborative research aimed at reducing impacts of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Projects range from assisting with diagnostics, testing and tracking, to engineering ventilator technology, to developing targeted treatments for the disease.
Quantum Edge: UW ECE professors Kai-Mei Fu and Mo Li continue cutting-edge quantum computing research
Kai-Mei Fu and Mo Li are involved in the QuantumX initiative to stimulate research and teaching on "everything quantum", aiming to position the UW as a leader in the development of quantum-enabled technologies.
UW ECE postdoctoral research scholar and PhD student accept tenure-track assistant professorships
Shana Moothedath and Yuanyuan Shi have accepted tenure-track assistant professorship positions in the ECE departments of Iowa State University and the University of California San Diego starting in 2021.
UW ECE grad student Li Chen writes algorithm to depict cardiovascular risk using knee MRIs and AI
Artificial intelligence cuts diagnostic times from hours to minutes; imaging researchers see vast opportunities.
ECE alum Junyi Zhu integrates electronics onto physical prototypes at MIT with "CurveBoards"
In place of flat “breadboards”, 3D-printed CurveBoards enable easier testing of circuit design on electronics products.
Researchers
- Michael B. Taylor
- Sreeram Kannan
- Visvesh Sathe
- Baosen Zhang
- Chris Rudell
- Scott Hauck
- Shwetak N. Patel
- Radha Poovendran
- James A. Ritcey
- Sumit Roy
- Payman Arabshahi
- Linda Bushnell
- John D. Sahr
- Yasuo Kuga
Research Labs
- Intelligent Systems Lab
- Processing Systems Lab (PSyLab)
- Bespoke Silicon Group
- CMMB Vision – UW EE Center on Satellite Multimedia and Connected Vehicles
- Adaptive Computing Machines and Emulators (ACME) Lab
- Network Security Lab
- Fundamentals of Networking Laboratory
- Future Analog System Technologies Lab
- Information Theory Lab
Latest Projects
Representative Publications
- Unsupervised Deep Learning of Compact Binary Descriptors
- Hole Filling with Multiple Reference Views in DIBR View Synthesis
- Signal Dependent Transform Based on SVD for HEVC Intra Coding
- Fast Intra Mode and CU Size Decision for HEVC
- A Data-driven Point Cloud Simplification Framework for City-scale Image-based Localization
- Cloaking the Clock: Emulating Clock Skew in Controller Area Networks