July 7, 2016
Student, Yury Dvorkin, Awarded the 2016 CEI Scientific Achievement Award
Congratulations to electrical engineering PhD student, Yury Dvorkin, who received the 2016 Scientific Achievement Award from the University of Washington’s Clean Energy Institute (CEI). The award was presented to Dvorkin due to his exceptional contributions in the areas of scientific achievement. In addition to the award, Dvorkin was also a fellow of CEI. During his…
Prof. Hannaford Develops Device to Improve Surgeries, Save Lives
Electrical Engineering Professor Blake Hannaford, an IEEE fellow and founder of the University of Washington’s BioRobotics Laboratory, is working on a robot that will aid surgeons during delicate, critical procedures. The device has the potential to increase the success rates of surgeries. The device – called Raven – is a semi-autonomous surgical robot that provides…
EE Students and Faculty Receive 2016 CoMotion Innovation Fund
The Department of Electrical Engineering is honored to have two 2016 CoMotion Innovation Fund winners. Professor Karl Böhringer, along with PhD student, Di Sun, received an award for their project, entitled: “Self-cleaning Solar Panels with Anisotropic Micro-texture.” Laura Adam, a doctoral student in Professor Eric Klavins’ lab, received an award for her project, entitled: “ebioHUB.”…
Student Success: PhD Student, Katherine Pratt, Named Husky 100
For electrical engineering PhD student, Katherine Pratt, being named a Husky 100 creates opportunities. However, she is not just focused on her own career or future. Instead, she wants to leverage these opportunities to serve a broader community – veterans and women in STEM. “Being a Husky 100 offers me a platform to share my…
$1m for Rehabilitative Wireless Devices
A group of international researchers with the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE), including Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering Joshua Smith, developed an implantable device that can aid those suffering from spinal cord injuries and incontinence. The researchers advanced to be one of three finalists, receiving $1 million through the…
UW EE Students Design Underwater Mapping Device
In collaboration with Booz Allen Hamilton, students with the Department of Electrical Engineering design and implement the hardware for an underwater mapping device. The product was developed as a part of the students’ Entrepreneurial Design Capstone project. The students – Philip David, Kevin Fukuhara, Kyle Lashbrook, Shruti Misra, and William Thing – sought to design…
UW EE Students’ Research Presented in The Economist
UW EE doctoral students, Po-shen Lee and Sean Yan, had their work highlighted in a June 18 edition of The Economist. The research elucidated a concept that has been presumed, but not fully tested – illustrations in academic papers affect the papers’ widespread impact. The research – termed Viziometrics – was conducted through a defined…
Radha Poovendran Receives Distinguished Alumni Award
University of Washington Electrical Engineering Chair Radha Poovendran was honored with a 2016 ECE Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Maryland (UMD). Professor Poovendran was one of three recipients awarded with the honor. The award was presented to him by his PhD advisor, Professor John Baras, at the UMD award ceremony on May 20….
July 5, 2016
Professor Shlizerman Receives Teaching Award
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Eli Shizerman, who received the 2016 Applied Math Teaching Award for outstanding teaching by a member of the faculty. Shlizerman specialized in teaching courses in the field of Scientific Computing for both undergraduate and graduate students in the Colleges of Engineering and Arts and Sciences. In April, Shlizerman published research that…
Scientific American Highlights Professor George Seelig’s Research in DNA Storage
Electrical Engineering Associate Professor Georg Seelig, along with Computer Science and Engineering Professor Luis Ceze and Microsoft’s Karin Strauss, developed an original encoding system that can be copied onto DNA. The sequence was presented at the Association for Computing Machinery Conference and was recently mentioned in a May 31 Scientific American article. Within the last decade,…
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