July 1, 2014

Affiliate Professor Babak Parviz Selected to Receive the 2014 Industrial Pioneer Award

UW EE Affiliate Professor Babak Parviz has been selected to receive the 2014 Industrial Pioneer Award from the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. The Award honors the individual(s) with exceptional and pioneering contributions in translating academic and industrial research results into improved industrial applications and/or commercial products. Dr. Parviz is being honored for his “visionary…


June 5, 2014

Dudley Buck’s Forgotten Cryotron Computer


June 4, 2014

Georg Seelig and Adrian KC Lee Receive the ONR Young Investigator Award

EE and CSE Assistant Professor Georg Seelig and EE Adjunct faculty member Adrian KC Lee are recipients of the 2014 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award. Seelig and Lee are two of the 24 early-career academic researchers to receive this year’s prestigious 3-year Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award. Seelig’s research focuses…


June 3, 2014

Tom Clement to Speak at the 2014 EE Graduation Celebration

With nearly one-third of all UW startups emerging from EE in 2013, it seems fitting that the academic year will end with a graduation speaker who has been a leader in supporting UW startups. Tom Clement, a serial entrepreneur and former director of New Ventures – Life Sciences for C4C, has been selected as the…


June 2, 2014

Chong Li Receives the Intel Foundation/SRCEA Graduate Fellowship

Graduate student Chong Li has been awarded an Intel Foundation/Semiconductor Research Corporation Education Alliance (SRCEA) Graduate Fellowship through the Graduate Fellowship Program. Li is a PhD student in the Silicon Systems Research Laboratory with Professor Richard C.J. Shi. His research interest lies in simulation and verification of complex mixed-signal circuits. His current project in collaboration with…


June 1, 2014

Eric Klavins Wins Faculty Innovator Award

EE Associate Professor Eric Klavins has been awarded the 2014 Faculty Innovator: Teaching and Learning award from the College of Engineering. The Faculty Innovator Award in Teaching and Learning is presented annually to engineering faculty to who demonstrate innovative and lasting contributions to engineering education, possess a high-level commitment to students both in and outside of the…


May 6, 2014

Robot Surgeons are the Future of Medicine


May 5, 2014

Innovation and entrepreneurism, at home and abroad


May 4, 2014

Aaron Parks & Joshua Smith Win Best Paper Award at the 2014 IEEE RFID Conference

Sensor Systems Lab and EE graduate student Aaron Parks and CSE and EE faculty member Joshua Smith have received the Best Paper Award at the 2014 IEEE RFID Conference for their paper, “Sifting Through the Airwaves: Efficient and Scalable Multiband RF Harvesting.” Previous Ambient RF harvesting systems worked for only one pre-selected frequency. The new…


May 3, 2014

Graduate Student Kelly Kozdras Wins the Hydro Research Foundation Award

Graduate student Kelly Kozdras has received the 2014 Hydro Research Foundation Award. Her research will model the connection of small hydropower plants in the Pacific Northwest to create a microgrid, and consider control devices to have these plants successfully operate while islanded. Kozdras is advised by Professor Daniel Kirschen, and she is one of 12…



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