December 9, 2019
ECE Professor Emeritus Akira Ishimaru elected lifetime fellow of URSI
Landing a plane in fog is possible thanks to the work of Akira Ishimaru, ECE Professor Emeritus, National Academy of Engineering member and one of the world’s top experts in wave propagation and scattering in random and turbulent media. His work on this topic has influenced advancements in ultrasound imaging, microwave remote sensing, satellite…
December 5, 2019
Jennifer Mankoff and Eve Riskin lead ECE’s co-sponsored UW EXP study
UW EXP is a student health and wellness study which uses surveys and biometrics (phone and Fitbit data) to study how personal and academic stressors affect student wellness. It is a sister study to Life@CMU and the StudentLife study at Dartmouth. This annual study adds to the growing field of biometric research, and UW EXP’s goal…
November 21, 2019
ECE alum Arthur Chiao inducted as new Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) laureate
On October 15th, ECE alum and Winbond Electronics Chairman Arthur Yu-Cheng Chiao was inducted as one of five new Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) laureates. ROC President Tsai Ing-wen attended the 2019 ITRI Laureate Ceremony in Taiwan to extend her congratulations and to bestow badges and certificates to the five laureates, who were selected for…
November 7, 2019
Assistant Professor Brian Johnson leads $4.9 million DOE grant to improve solar technologies
On November 6, 2019, the U.S. Department of Energy announced it would provide $128 million in funding for 75 projects intending to advance solar technologies through the Solar Energy Technologies Office Fiscal Year 2019 (SETO FY2019) funding program. This program will provide $50 million for 15 research projects that aim to improve the ability of…
November 4, 2019
Assistant professor Amy Orsborn awarded 2019 L’Oreal USA “Changing the Face of STEM” mentoring grant
L’Oréal USA has recently announced 11 female scientists as the 2019 recipients of its annual “Changing the Face of STEM” (CTFS) mentoring grants, which are issued through the beauty leader’s For Women in Science program. The selected projects represent a broad range of activities focused on mentoring and engaging girls and women in the fields…
October 31, 2019
Four ECE students receive the Power & Energy Scholarship presented by IEEE
Congratulations to the following UW students who received the 2019-20 Power & Energy Scholarship (PES) presented by IEEE: Ishaan Bhimani – 2021 Neil Flodin – 2021 Michael Kenny – 2020 Nathan Shih – 2021 Recipients are high-achieving undergraduate students in electrical engineering programs who are committed to exploring the power and energy engineering field through…
October 23, 2019
Professor Howard Chizeck’s company Olis Robotics chosen to run software for lunar missions
Seattle-based Olis Robotics says it’s been selected by U.S tech firm Maxar Technologies to provide software that will prepare operators on Earth to control a robotic arm on the moon. The software will be used in connection with a robotic-arm experiment known as SAMPLR (Sample Acquisition, Morphology Filtering and Probing of Lunar Regolith). SAMPLR is one of…
October 8, 2019
Assistant professor Baosen Zhang serves as panelist at DOE Artificial Intelligence Summit
ECE assistant professor Baosen Zhang recently attended the 4th InnovationXLab Artificial Intelligence Summit at the Drake Hotel in Chicago, Illinois from Oct. 2-3. The event, hosted by U.S. Secretary of Energy and keynote speaker Rick Perry and the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, discussed the DOE’s latest AI research and the recent establishment of…
October 7, 2019
ECE professor Arka Majumdar’s lab creates new metasurface design that can control optical fields in three dimensions
(re-posted from UW News) A team led by scientists at the University of Washington has designed and tested a 3D-printed metamaterial that can manipulate light with nanoscale precision. As they report in a paper published Oct. 4 in the journal Science Advances, their designed optical element focuses light to discrete points in a 3D helical pattern. The…
September 30, 2019
Professor Howard Chizeck profiled by Robotics Business Review
ECE professor Howard Chizeck was interviewed recently by Robotics Business Review (RBR) about his telerobotic research involving haptic navigation and control for telerobotic devices, including robotic surgery and underwater systems. His neural engineering work involves the design and security of brain-machine interfaces, and the development of devices to control symptoms of essential tremor and Parkinson’s…
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