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.
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
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 recognition, natural language understanding, computational linguistics and web-based language techniques.
Faculty: Mari Ostendorf, Katrin Kirchhoff, Jeffrey A. Bilmes, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Les Atlas
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
Professor Eve Riskin is returning to UW ECE after 15 years as an associate dean in the UW College of Engineering. And as co-founder and faculty director of STARS, she has plans to share this successful program model with colleges and universities across the country.
UW ECE and CSE professor Shwetak Patel was recently honored by Georgia Tech and Business Insider for his contributions to low-power sensing and mobile health innovation.
Eight UW graduate students received this year’s Distinguished Dissertation and Thesis Awards. Schwock won in the category of Mathematics, Physical Sciences & Engineering for his work on analyzing and predicting ocean ambient noise.
The new three-course, graduate-level evening program is for students wanting to enhance their skills and knowledge in these exciting, cutting-edge areas.
University of Washington Provost Mark Richards announced on Thursday the appointment of Mari Ostendorf as Vice Provost for Research, set to begin Sept. 1. Ostendorf has been serving as Associate Vice Provost for Research in the Office of Research since 2017 and will assume leadership of the UW’s premier and growing research enterprise from Mary Lidstrom.
UW ECE faculty members Sam Burden, Lillian Ratliff and Linda Shapiro, as well as UW ECE students Shuowei Li and Momona Yamagami all received 2021 UW College of Engineering awards for their demonstrated commitment to innovation, leadership and service.
