Two student speakers selected for UW ECE Graduation
UW ECE is proud to announce that Khushbu Patel (MSECE ‘26) and Kathryn Fehme (BSECE ‘26) have been selected to speak at this year's Graduation Ceremony.
Photo by Ryan Hoover / UW ECE
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 the UW eScience Institute, the Allen Institute of Artificial Intelligence (Ai2) and the Bloedel Hearing Research Center.
Topics
Machine Learning
Artificial intelligence (AI), mathematical optimization and information theory.
Faculty: Lillian Ratliff, Jeffrey A. Bilmes, Maryam Fazel, Mari Ostendorf, Eli Shlizerman, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Linda Shapiro, 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: Mari Ostendorf, Jenq-Neng Hwang
Speech and Natural Language Processing
Speech recognition, natural language understanding, computational linguistics and web-based language techniques.
Faculty: Mari Ostendorf, Jeffrey A. Bilmes
Computer Vision and Image Processing
Video analysis, surveillance, object recognition, activity recognition, medical image analysis and video compression
Faculty: Jenq-Neng Hwang, Linda Shapiro, Jeffrey A. Bilmes, Radha Poovendran
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Researchers
- Charles B. Delahunt
- Bill Yuchen Lin
- Vasileios Charisopoulos
- Mahmood Hameed
- Gang Hua
- Karthik Mohan
- Rahul Trivedi
- Rania Hussein
- Sreeram Kannan
- Lillian Ratliff
- Eli Shlizerman
- Shwetak N. Patel
- Radha Poovendran
- C. J. Richard Shi
- Jose Nathan Kutz
- 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
- Silicon System Research Lab
- Ubicomp (Ubiquitous Computing) Research Lab
- Information Processing Lab
Latest Projects
- Automatic Recognition of Power Line in Millimeter Wave Radar Video
- Expression Recognition with Deep Neural Nets (with Barbara Mones in CSE)
- 3D Head Reconstruction from Images or Videos (with Ira Kemmelmacher-Shlizerman in CSE)
- Digital Pathology: Accuracy, Viewing Behavior and Image Characterization (with PI: Joann Elmore at Harborview and others)
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