March 7, 2010
Belkin buys Zensi
Zensi, a startup company founded by EE Professor Shwetak Patel, Duke Professor Matthew Reynolds, Georgia Tech Professor Gregory Abowd and Ph.D. candidate Erich Stuntebeck, has been acquired by Belkin Technologies. Zensi specializes in power management applications, such as monitoring and profiling the amounts and patterns of electricity used by individual appliances and other devices throughout…
March 6, 2010
DoE Awards $2.5M to Develop Training Program on Clean Energy & Smart Grids
The Department of Energy has awarded $2.5 million for a joint UW/WSU project that will develop a program to train engineers in clean energy and smart grid engineering. Professor Anjan Bose from WSU and professor Mohamed El-Sharkawi from UW are the lead investigators of the project. This three-year project will set up a joint WSU-UW…
March 5, 2010
Cohn and Medero awarded NSF Fellowships
EE Ph.D. candidates Gabe Cohn and Julie Medero have been awarded Fellowships through the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). Julie is advised by Mari Ostendorf, while Gabe Cohn is advised by Shwetak Patel. GRFP awards provide three years of support including an annual stipend, cost-of-education allowance, an international travel allowance, and TeraGrid…
March 4, 2010
Jandhyala and Poovendran Promoted
Radha Poovendran Vikram Jandhyala Congratulations to Vikram Jandhyala and Radha Poovendran on their promotion to Full Professor, effective September 16, 2010. Professor Jandhyala is famous for his research contributions in integral equation based fast solvers, electromagnetic circuit methods for microelectronic simulation, parallelized N-Body matrix solvers in multicore and distributed environments, and new applications of fast…
March 3, 2010
AMARSi project could see robots learn from co-workers
March 2, 2010
Paul Packan named Intel Fellow
Paul Packan, director of Transistor Technology Development at Intel, has been named as an Intel Fellow in the Technology and Manufacturing Group. Paul received his BSEE from the University of Washington in 1984, then proceeded to do graduate study at Stanford. He joined Intel in 1992. The department wishes to congratulate Paul on this honor!…
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…
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