June 28, 2023
New ‘eyes’ for self-driving cars
By Wayne Gillam | UW ECE News Are you tired of driving in heavy traffic? If so, you’re in luck, because self-driving cars are working their way into everyday life through companies such as Cruise and Waymo. But perhaps don’t take your hand off the wheel quite yet. As many experts in the field have…
June 21, 2023
Payman Arabshahi named UW lead at new NSF Center for Soil Technologies
By Wayne Gillam | UW ECE News Healthy soils are foundational to our quality of life, providing us with food and fiber for clothing, materials and surfaces for building shelter, and even a natural filtration system for the water we drink and the air we breathe. Soil forms the basis of complex ecosystems that support…
June 13, 2023
UW ECE alumnus Donald Wunsch to receive IEEE Pioneer Award
By Wayne Gillam | UW ECE News This month, UW ECE alumnus Donald Wunsch II (Ph.D. ‘91) will receive a high honor from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, commonly known as IEEE. Wunsch has been named by IEEE as recipient of the 2023 Computational Intelligence Society Neural Networks Pioneer Award for his fundamental…
June 1, 2023
The ‘breath’ between atoms — a new building block for quantum technology
By Wayne Gillam | UW ECE News A UW research team, led by UW ECE and Physics Professor Mo Li, has found a way to leverage the “breathing,” or mechanical vibration, between two layers of atoms, engineering a new building block for quantum technologies. The act of breathing is primal. People breathe, animals breathe, and…
May 28, 2023
Dr. Gabriela A. González from Intel Corporation to speak at UW ECE Graduation
The University of Washington Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering is proud to announce UW ECE alumna Dr. Gabriela A. González (BSEE ‘92) as honored guest speaker for the Department’s 2023 graduation ceremony. Dr. González is director of Intel Corporation’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education Research Office. She also is a leading advocate…
May 26, 2023
Sara Mouradian — building quantum technologies for computing, communication and sensing
Article by Wayne Gillam, photos by Ryan Hoover | UW ECE News UW ECE Assistant Professor Sara Mouradian says she enjoys learning new things and looking at problems from different points of view. That’s probably a good thing, because as a researcher and educator who specializes in quantum information science and technology, or QIST, she is…
May 17, 2023
Professor Radha Poovendran to be UW lead for NSF-funded ACTION Institute
UW ECE Professor Radha Poovendran has been named the UW lead for a new, multi-university institute, which will develop approaches that leverage artificial intelligence, or AI, to defend against cyberthreats that target the security and privacy of computer networks and their users. Poovendran is the founding director of the Network Security Lab at the UW,…
April 27, 2023
Professors Michael Taylor and Mo Li contribute to UW effort seeking CHIPS and Science Act funding
April 20, 2023
Tech leaders size up what it will take to turn the Pacific Northwest into a ‘Quantum Valley’
April 13, 2023
UW researchers show how to tap into the sensing capabilities of any smartphone to screen for prediabetes
Adapted from an article by Kristin Osborne | Allen School According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, one out of every three adults in the United States have prediabetes, a condition marked by elevated blood sugar levels that could lead to the development of type 2 diabetes. The good news is that, if detected…
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