Two EE grad students win NSF fellowships

March 8, 2007

Two EE grad students win NSF fellowships

Amy Dashiell Rob Egbert Two EE graduate students – Amy Dashiell, advised by Mari Ostendorf; and Robert Egbert, advised by Brian Otis – have been awarded prestigious NSF Fellowships. These NSF Graduate Research Fellowships provide three years of support for graduate study leading to research-based masters or doctoral degrees, and are intended for students who…

March 7, 2007

Students awarded “Best Paper”

A paper by Patrick Ngatchou (Recent EE graduate advised by Professor El-Sharkawi and Affiliate Professor Meldrum), Jianchun Dong (current Ph.D. student advised by Professor Parviz), and others has been named co-winner of the 2006 Best Paper Award for the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. Congratulations!

March 2, 2007

Gupta receives Young Investigator Award

EE Assistant Professor Maya Gupta has received a 2007 Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research (ONR). The award is for “Joint Deconvolution and Classification.” According to the ONR’s program description: “The objectives of the Young Investigator Program (YIP) are to attract to naval research outstanding new faculty members at institutions of higher…

February 20, 2007

Grad students win conference best paper award

A paper by Samuel Kim and Ehsan Saeedi was named “best paper” at the January IEEE Nanoelectronics and Molecular Systems conference in Bangkok. Kim traveled to the conference and presented the paper – titled “Self-Assembled Heterogeneous Fluorescence Detection System” – to a group of scientists, researchers, and panel judges. Babak Parviz is Saeedi’s advisor and…

January 10, 2007

Eve Riskin wins UW leadership award

Professor Eve Riskin has been named co-winner of the UW David B. Thorud Leadership Award. UW Leadership Award recipients are chosen through a nomination process overseen by selection committees made up of their peers. They will be formally recognized for their outstanding achievement and commitment to the University of Washington at the annual Recognition Ceremony,…

January 8, 2007

Babak Parviz wins NSF CAREER award

Babak Parviz has received a 2007 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. The award is for “Self-Assembly of Functional Systems Within Live Cells.” Babak has been working on using biomolecules for self-assembling engineered structures, and the design and construction of self-assembled structures and devices in the micro and nano-scales. We would all like to…

January 5, 2007