March 1, 2010
Sina Nia Kosari wins NSERC postgraduate scholarship
EE Ph.D. Student Sina Nia Kosari has been awarded a postgraduate scholarship by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Sina is working with Professors Howard Chizeck and Blake Hannaford on problems of automation in robotic surgery. NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships provide financial support to high-caliber scholars engaged in graduate research in the…
February 7, 2010
Five EE students selected as Mary Gates Scholars
The Mary Gates Endowment funds hundreds of University of Washington undergraduate students every year through Research, Leadership, Venture and Honors scholarships. These scholarships support students to engage in activities that enhance their undergraduate experience, encouraging student learning both in and outside the classroom. This year, five EE students were selected as 2009-10 Mary Gates Scholars….
February 6, 2010
Jonathan Lester awarded ‘Best Paper’
Jonathan Lester, who recently finished his Ph.D. under CS Professor (and EE Adjunct Professor) Gaetano Borriello and EE Professor Blake Hannaford, has won the best paper award at the International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technology and Healthcare (Pervasive Health) 2010. The paper, titled “Automatic Classification of Daily Fluid Intake”, was written in collaboration with Desney…
February 5, 2010
Basel Alomair wins William C. Carter Award
Basel Alomair, a Ph.D. student working with Professor Radha Poovendran in UWEE’s Network Security Lab, has won the IEEE/IFIP William C. Carter Award for 2010 for his paper “Scalable RFID Systems: a Privacy-Preserving Protocol with Constant-Time Identification.” Basel will receive the award in the opening ceremony of the 40th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable…
February 4, 2010
Tim Kowalewski Wins Best Doctoral Candidate Award
Tim Kowalewski, an EE Ph.D. student in Blake Hannaford’s BioRobotics Lab, was awarded the Best Doctoral Candidate award at the first annualDoctoral Consortium for Medical Simulation and Robotics held last week in Chicago. The consortium is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Tim was chosen by a panel of engineers and surgeons over nine other…
February 3, 2010
Scott Hauck receives 2010 Distinguished Teaching Award
EE Professor Scott Hauck has been honored with a 2010 Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Washington. From the award announcement: “Scott Hauck has a natural talent in the classroom to enhance the student experience. He cares deeply about how his students are learning and continuously works to improve his teaching style through the…
January 6, 2010
Georg Seelig Receives 2010 CAREER Award
Assistant Professor Georg Seelig has received a 2010 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for his proposal titled “Nucleic acid circuitry for programming gene expression.” The focus of this research will be to engineer synthetic regulatory circuits that can analyze complex cellular states, and based on that analysis autonomously control gene expression. This research…
January 5, 2010
Three UW EE Alumni Win Outstanding Recruiter Awards from Sandia Lab
Congratulations to UW EE Alumni Lisa Anderson (formerly Hansen), David Burnett, and Harvey Ho for winning the “Outstanding Recruiter Award” from Sandia Laboratories. Each member of the UW recruiting team, comprised of Alex Willis, Lisa Anderson, David Burnett, Harvey Ho, and Bryn Miyahara received the award for their collaborative recruiting efforts, and Jonathan Zimmerman received…
January 2, 2010
“Bumblebee” wins 2010 DAC/ISSCC Design Competition
A team from Professor Brian Otis’ Wireless Sensing Lab has been named a winner at the 2010 Design Automation Conference (DAC)/International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Design Competition. Their entry, titled “The Bumblebee: A 0.3 gram, 560uW, 0.1cm3 Wireless Biosignal Interface with 10-m Range”, was authored by Tim Morrison, Helen Zhang, Shailesh Rai, Jagdish Pandey, Jeremy…
December 1, 2009
Nabar and Wu win “Pride at Boeing” award
Sidharth Nabar and Tony Wu of EE’s Network Security Lab (NSL), working with Professor Radha Poovendran, received the Pride@Boeing award for their technology transition demo. The Pride@Boeing award is in recognition of exceptional performance at Boeing, and was presented to “show Boeing’s appreciation for the special effort and high impact contributions” they put forth on…
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