August 10, 2015
UW EE and Disney Researchers Create Wireless Camera Sensors
Combining two good ideas can lead to a great breakthrough. UW EE researchers in the Sensor Systems Lab, in collaboration with Disney Research, combined a battery-free camera project with a wirelessly powered localization project to produce battery-free smart camera nodes that are able to automatically determine their own location. The research may lead to large…
August 9, 2015
AccessMap Selected for eScience Institute Summer Program
An engineering student project aimed at helping others received a little extra help over the summer, fittingly enough. Thanks to the eScience Institute’s Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) summer program, an engineering student project led by UW EE Ph.D. student Nick Bolten has made more progress toward developing an app, calledAccessMap, that plans travel routes…
August 8, 2015
Arka Majumdar Receives Intel Early Career Award
Assistant Professor Arka Majumdar, who has a dual appointment in the Electrical Engineering and Physics Departments, has been honored with a2015 Intel Early Career Award. The award recognizes faculty members who show great promise as upcoming leaders in disruptive computing technologies, which are innovations that displace earlier technologies in ways the market does not anticipate….
August 7, 2015
MagnifiSense Technology Developed in UbiComp Lab
New technology developed by EE and CSE students in the UbiComp Lab, called MagnifiSense, is able to sense appliance usage and even indicates who in a household uses particular devices. The research team, led by Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering Associate Professor Shwetak Patel, is comprised of lead author and UW EE Ph.D….
August 6, 2015
Lillian Ratliff to Join UW EE in Fall 2016
UW EE is pleased to announce that Lillian Ratliff will join the department in the fall of 2016. Prior to joining UW, Ratliff will complete a year of postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, where she received her Ph.D. In addition to providing an ideal environment for her research and boasting a strong…
August 5, 2015
UW EE Research Recognized by Science of Security Organization
A paper authored by a team of UW EE researchers was selected to be included in an upcoming issue of theScience of Security Index of Significant Research in Cyber Security. With more than 2,500 published papers reviewed monthly by the Science of Security Virtual Organization, only up to 15% are considered significant enough to be…
August 4, 2015
Data Analysis Expert Eli Shlizerman Joins UW EE
Assistant Professor Eli Shlizerman, who joined the UW Department of Applied Mathematics three years ago, will assume a joint tenure-track appointment in Electrical Engineering starting this fall. An expert in novel data analysis methods, Shlizerman is also appointed as a Washington Research Foundation Professor and will work closely with the eScience Institute. Born in St….
August 3, 2015
UW EE Alum Jeffrey Walling Honored with Outstanding Teaching Award
UW EE alum Jeffrey Walling (Ph.D. ’08) was honored with the University of Utah’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award for 2015. This is the second excellence in teaching award Walling has received since he began teaching five years ago. An assistant professor, Walling places an emphasis on providing various methods to help his…
August 2, 2015
Memorial Scholarship Honors Alum Stephanie Subak
In honor of UW EE alum Stephanie Subak, who was an inspiration to students and an advocate for women in the electrical engineering field, Subak’s employer for more than 34 years, Fluke Corporation, has established the Stephanie Subak Memorial Scholarship. Subak, 58, passed away while doing what she loved—frequenting the outdoors. An avid outdoorswoman, Subak…
August 1, 2015
Why Electrical Engineering? Undergraduates Share Their Stories
From wanting to help people by developing robotics devices to creating wireless power solutions, undergraduate students Amanda Loh and Jeff Raines share why they decided to pursue a degree in electrical engineering. Learn more about the UW EE bachelor’s degree program.
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