August 1, 2009
Rahul Vanam wins “Best Student Paper”
EE graduate student Rahul Vanam was awarded “Best Student Paper” at the 2009 Western New York Image Processing workshop in Rochester, New York. Co-authors for “Joint Rate-Intelligibility-Complexity Optimization of an H.264 Video Encoder for American Sign Language” were Frank Ciaramello, Eve Riskin, Sheila Hemami and Richard Ladner. Professor Riskin is also Rahul’s advisor. Congratulations, Rahul!
July 3, 2009
Parviz and Otis awarded EFRI grant
EE faculty members Babak Parviz and Brian Otis, along with UW collaborators Buddy D. Ratner and Tueng Shen, have received a two million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation’s Office of Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI). The objective of their project, named “Second Window”, is to design, build, and test a fundamentally…
July 2, 2009
Young Scientist Award for Parmoon Seddighrad
We’ve just learned that Parmoon Seddighrad received the Young Scientist Best Paper Award for the paper that she presented at the 2008 European Solid-State Circuits Conference. The title of her presentation was “A 3.6GHz, 16mW ΣΔ DAC for a 802.11n / 802.16e transmitter with 30dB digital power control in 90nm CMOS.” Parmoon works with her…
July 1, 2009
Parmoon Seddighrad Wins Intel Fellowship
Parmoon Seddighrad, a graduate student in David Allstot’s System-On-Chip lab, has been selected as a 2009-10 Intel Foundation Ph.D. Fellowship Award winner. Her proposal was titled “Multi-standard CMOS RF Transmitter”. This renewable fellowship covers tuition and fees for one year, and provides a $23,000 stipend and a $1500 travel grant for Parmoon. Intel has also…
June 20, 2009
First Peden Fellowship awardee selected
Tamara Bonaci has been chosen as the first recipient of the Irene Peden Fellowship. She plans to focus her UW research in the areas of networking and system control, working with Professors Radha Poovendran and Linda Bushnell. Her ultimate goal is to do aviation research. “I am very proud to receive the fellowship established to…
June 15, 2009
Electrical circuit runs entirely off power in trees
June 10, 2009
Former student Loukas Lazos wins NSF CAREER award
Loukas Lazos, a former graduate student under Radha Poovendran, has been given a 2009 NSF CAREER award for his project “Securing Channel Access in Multi-Channel Ad Hoc Networks”. Loukas is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona. Congratulations Loukas!
June 7, 2009
iConcertCal for iPhone
June 5, 2009
Bob Spindel honored by the Acoustical Society of America
Acoustical Society of America News Release (August 24, 2009) The Acoustical Society of America (ASA) will award its Silver Medal in Acoustical Oceanography to Robert C. Spindel, professor emeritus of electrical engineering at the University of Washington and emeritus director of UW’s Applied Physics Laboratory. The award will be presented on 28 October 2009 at…
June 1, 2009
Xiaolan Xu Wins Student Paper Award
At this year’s IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) held in Cape Town, South Africa, EE graduate student Xiaolan Xu was one of ten finalists selected to present their papers as part of a special student competition session at the symposium. Her paper, “Microwave Scattering Properties of Dry Snow using the Bi-continuous Random…
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