Ostendorf wins 2018 Flanagan award
For innovative research
Overview
Data sciences are fundamentally transforming nearly every area of engineering, science, and society. The University of Washington’s Electrical & Computer Engineering faculty are making fundamental contributions to many different areas of data sciences, including machine learning, AI, optimization, information theory, computer vision, and speech and natural language processing. Many of our data sciences faculty hold secondary appointments in applied mathematics, computer science and engineering, bioengineering, and other departments, and are active participants in cross-disciplinary institutes such as UW’s eScience Institute, the Allen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and the Bloedel Hearing Research Center.
Topics
Machine Learning
Artificial intelligence (AI), mathematical optimization and information theory.
Faculty: Katrin Kirchhoff, Jeffrey A. Bilmes, Les Atlas, Maryam Fazel, Sreeram Kannan, Mari Ostendorf, Ming-Ting Sun, Eli Shlizerman, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Linda Shapiro, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Shwetak Patel, Radha Poovendran
Statistical Signal Processing
Theory, algorithms, signal processing systems and signal processing applications (i.e. biomedical, geophysical signals and synthetic signals).
Faculty: Ming-Ting Sun, Les Atlas, Mari Ostendorf, Brian A. Nelson, Jenq-Neng Hwang
Speech and Natural Language Processing
Speech recognition, natural language understanding, computational linguistics and web-based language techniques.
Faculty: Mari Ostendorf, Katrin Kirchhoff, Jeffrey A. Bilmes, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Les Atlas
Computer Vision and Image Processing
Video analysis, surveillance, object recognition, activity recognition, medical image analysis and video compression
Faculty: Ming-Ting Sun, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Linda Shapiro, Jeffrey A. Bilmes, Eve Riskin, Radha Poovendran
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Researchers
- Sreeram Kannan
- Eli Shlizerman
- Shwetak N. Patel
- Radha Poovendran
- Ming-Ting Sun
- Linda G. Shapiro
- Eve A. Riskin
- Mari Ostendorf
- Brian A. Nelson
- Katrin Kirchhoff
- Jenq-Neng Hwang
- Hannaneh Hajishirzi
- Maryam Fazel
- Jeffrey A. Bilmes
- Les Atlas
Research Labs
- MachinE Learning, Optimization, and Data Interpretation (MELODI) Laboratory
- Transformation, Interpretation and Analysis of Language (TIAL)
- Intelligent Systems Lab
- Graphics and Imaging Lab
- Data-Driven Dynamical Systems
- Signal, Speech and Language Interpretation Lab
- Silicon System Research Lab
- Ubicomp (Ubiquitous Computing) Research Lab
- Data Compression Lab
- Design, Test and Reliability Research Laboratory
- Information Processing Lab
- Information Theory Lab
- Interactive System Design Laboratory
Latest Projects
- simsong.org
- Digital Pathology: Accuracy, Viewing Behavior and Image Characterization (with PI: Joann Elmore at Harborview and others)
- 3D Head Reconstruction from Images or Videos (with Ira Kemmelmacher-Shlizerman in CSE)
- Expression Recognition with Deep Neural Nets (with Barbara Mones in CSE)
- Automatic Recognition of Power Line in Millimeter Wave Radar Video
Representative Publications
- Surface Light Field Compression Using a Point Cloud Codec
- A Data-driven Point Cloud Simplification Framework for City-scale Image-based Localization
- Full-Capacity Unitary Recurrent Neural Networks
- Deep Submodular Functions: Definitions and Learning
- Exploiting Tradeoffs for Exact Recovery in Heterogeneous Stochastic Block Models
- Y-Net: Joint Segmentation and Classification Diagnosis of Breast Biopsy Images