November 3, 2016
New Faculty Hire Profile: Amy Orsborn
Amy Orsborn will join UW in January 2018 as the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering and in Bioengineering. Amy works at the interface of engineering and neuroscience to study motor learning and to improve brain-machine interfaces (BMI) to restore motor function to people with disabilities such as limb loss, stroke or spinal…
Two New Star Faculty Bring Excellence in Neuroengineering
The Department of Electrical Engineering is proud to announce the recruitment of two new faculty members in neuroengineering. Amy Orsborn and Azadeh Yazdan-Shahmorad join the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering as tenure-track assistant professors. The two faculty bring robust expertise in neuroengineering and neural computation. They will join outstanding UW teams in brain-machine interfaces, neuronal…
October 24, 2016
Professor Patel Wins Best Paper at Two Renowned Conferences
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering Shwetak Patel and researchers from his UbiComp Lab received two Best Paper awards. “HemaApp: Noninvasive blood screening of hemoglobin using smartphone cameras” earned a Best Paper Award at the International Joint Conference on Pervasive & Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2016) in Heidelberg, Germany, and “EyeContact: Scleral coil eye tracking for virtual reality”…
Professor Georg Seelig and Collaborators Win “Best of What’s New” Award
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering Georg Seelig and collaborators at UW CSE and Microsoft received the “Best of What’s New” Award from Popular Science for their work on DNA storage. In the 2016 “Best of What’s New” Awards announced Wednesday, Popular Science recognized the technique developed by UW and Microsoft…
Professor Wilson Receives “Best Paper” Award at ASEE Annual Conference
Professor Denise Wilson and other researchers were awarded a “Best Paper” award for the 2016 ASEE Annual Conference for the New Engineering Educators Division. The paper entitled “Student Perceptions of Faculty Support: Do Class Size or Institution Type Matter” investigates focus groups of 175 students from five different universities to determine if student perceptions of faculty support differed…
Professors Receive NSF Grant to Develop a 3D Printer that Aids Research in Nanotechnology
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Karl Böhringer, Professor of Electrical Engineering Lih Lin and Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Nicholas Boechler receive a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the advancement of three-dimensional (3D) printers with unprecedented nanoscale resolution. Boechler is the PI on the project, entitled “MRI: Acquisition of a…
Professor Eli Shlizerman Receives Award to Unearth Mosquitoes Sensory Attraction to Humans
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics Eli Shlizerman, along with Associate Professor of Biology Jeff Riffell, will receive an award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) to study the mosquito olfactory system. This research will unearth the odor fingerprints of humans to mosquitoes, allowing for the development of bio-inspired detection…
Riskin Leads “Redshirt” Consortium to Support Low-Income Students in Engineering
Electrical Engineering Professor and Associate Dean of Diversity and Access Eve Riskin received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant to support incoming freshmen who are interested in pursuing an engineering degree and who are from economically and educationally underserved backgrounds. The consortium is an extension of the STARS (Washington STate Academic RedShirt) program. Research has…
Interview: Dr. Babak Parviz on Society and Technology
UW EE had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Babak Parviz. In addition to his appointment as an affiliate faculty member at the University of Washington Department of Electrical Engineering, Dr. Parviz is also a vice-president at Amazon. Before Amazon, he led the development of Google Glass while at the search giant. He has…
Professor Reynolds Proposes New Approach for Wireless Charging
A flat-screen panel that resembles a TV on your living room wall could one day remotely charge any device within its line of sight, according to new research. In a paper published Oct. 23, 2016, on the arXiv pre-print repository, engineers at the University of Washington, Duke University and Intellectual Ventures’ Invention Science Fund (ISF)…
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