July 13, 2015
EE’s Sumit Roy to Investigate Efficient Use of Radio Spectrum
EE Professor Sumit Roy has received a three-year grant from the U.S. Air Force’s Contested Environment Radio Frequency Exploitation and Research (CERFER) program to investigate more efficient use of the radio spectrum, which is the driver of the modern Internet era. With escalating demands on the radio spectrum, Roy’s research will specifically explore the co-existence…
July 12, 2015
UW EE Senior Shruti Misra Is Powering Promise
UW EE senior Shruti Misra is featured this week on UW’s homepage for her“Be Boundless” story. With a passion for sustainability, Misra is a project lead for UW Solar and is helping to spread solar power across campus. Congratulations, Shruti!
July 11, 2015
EE’s Daniel Kirschen and Payman Arabshahi to Investigate the Resilience of Power Systems in Natural Disasters
Natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes and floods impact power systems, as demonstrated by events such as Hurricane Sandy in 2012. The resulting power outages can last up to weeks, causing hardship for many people. To address this problem, EE Professors Daniel Kirschen(lead PI) and Payman Arabshahi (co-PI) have received a three-year $349,000 grant from…
July 10, 2015
UW EE Eve Riskin’s MobileASL Featured in Scientific American
MobileASL technology, developed by a research team led by EE faculty member Eve Riskin, has been featured in Scientific American. MobileASL was developed to improve wireless cell phone communication for people using sign language. The technology, which achieved higher quality video at lower bandwidths, was designed specifically for people communicating via American Sign Language (ASL) on…
July 9, 2015
EE’s Vikram Jandhyala Discusses Unlocking Innovation at UW
July 8, 2015
UW Nanofabrication Facility Receives $37 Million to Expand
The UW Washington Nanofabrication Facility (WNF), directed by EE Professor Karl Bohringer, has received up to $37 million in funding from the UW Board of Regents for an extensive expansion project. “The building infrastructure is from the 80s and desperately needs updating,” Bohringer said. “Lab activities have about tripled in the past four years since we…
July 7, 2015
Matt Reynolds and Shwetak Patel’s SideSwipe is the Future of Smartphones
Developed in the labs of UW EE Professors Matt Reynolds andShwetak Patel, SideSwipe technology was featured in the July issue of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. SideSwipe enables the entire space around a smartphone to become interactive using gesture control. The phone’s own wireless transmissions are used to sense and respond to specific hand gestures. This…
July 6, 2015
EE Graduate Student Ethan Keeler Wins Best Scientific Poster Award
UW EE graduate student Ethan Keeler received the Best Scientific Poster Award at the 9th annual Nano and Micro Systems (NAMIS) International Summer School in Montreal, Canada, held June 29-July 3, 2015. Keeler competed against 40 other students and researchers. A second year graduate student, Keeler’s poster was titled “MEMS Resonator and Photonic Crystal Integration for…
July 5, 2015
UW EE Alum Henry Louie Receives Fulbright Award
UW EE Alum Henry Louie (Ph.D. 2008) is the recipient of a Fulbright Award, allowing him to spend a year at Copperbelt University in Kitwe, Zambia, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in power engineering and conducting research on energy poverty. “Receiving a Fulbright Award is a prestigious honor, and one that I am very proud…
July 4, 2015
UW EE’s Daniel Kirschen Teams up with BPA to Improve Wind Energy Usage
EE Professor Daniel Kirschen has received funding to work toward improving the electric grid, particularly as it pertains to storing and using excess wind energy. With an outdated electric grid, and an increase in renewable energy usage, ensuring that energy is being optimally used is a current challenge in the field. Sponsored by the Bonneville…
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