Gupta and Klavins Promoted

January 5, 2009

Gupta and Klavins Promoted

Congratulations to Professors Maya Gupta and Eric Klavins on their promotion to Associate Professors with Tenure, which is effective September 16, 2009. Professor Klavins research is well known in the areas of self-assembly, synthetic biology molecular programming and cooperative control and verification. Professor Gupta ‘s research is well known in the areas of color image…

January 4, 2009

EEK wins another CASE Award

The Department of Electrical Engineering’s EEK 2008 Magazine has received a CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education) District VIII Communications Awards competition “Silver Award” in the Student & Alumni Publications Category. EEK2008, last year’s edition of the department’s annual showcase of graduate student research, was edited by Professor Howard Chizeck and Ms. Laura…

January 3, 2009

Fazel Receives NSF 2009 CAREER Award

Assistant Professor Maryam Fazel has received a 2009 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for her proposal titled “Parsimonious Modeling via Matrix Rank Minimization.” This project focuses on developing mathematical tools and algorithms for finding low-complexity or parsimonious models that explain observed data in a variety of engineering applications, using convex optimization methods. Congratulations…

January 2, 2009

Campus News and Notes

November 29, 2008

Maya Gupta receives a 2007 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

October 29, 2008

UW scientists part of breakthrough in optical nanotechnology

September 29, 2008

2009 IEEE Fellows

Three more of our EE faculty have been honored as IEEE Fellows for 2009. If you are interested in learning more about this distinguished program, read the IEEE Fellow Program History page at ieee.org. IEEE FELLOWS ELECTED AS OF JANUARY 2009 Seattle Section Professor Hui Liu For contributions to global standards for broadband cellular and…

August 2, 2008