July 6, 2013

UW EE Faculty Promotions

Congratulations to Linda Bushnell, Alex Mamishev, Shwetak Patel and Jim Peckol who have all been promoted. Bushnell’s promotion is effective July 1, 2013, and Mamishev, Patel, and Peckol’s promotions are effective September 16, 2013. Together, they succinctly show how successful career paths can be created in diverse ways! Linda Bushnell: Promotion to Research Associate Professor Alex Mamishev:…


July 5, 2013

Bilmes, Iyer, Jegelka Receive Best Paper Award

Congratulations to professor Jeff Bilmes, Rishabh Iyer and Steffi Jegelka for winning the best paper award at the 2013 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)! Their award-winning titled, “Fast Semidifferential-based Submodular Function Optimization” was presented at the 30th annual ICML in Atlanta, GA on June 19th. Rishabh is a current EE graduate student advised by…


July 4, 2013

Kaiwen Sun Receives the 2013 Bonderman Fellowship

EE undergraduate student Kaiwen Sun has recently been awarded the 2013 Bonderman Travel Fellowship. Kaiwen is one of fourteen UW students selected to receive this fellowship, which will allow each fellow to travel to a minimum of two regions and six countries around the world over the span of at least eight months. The Bonderman…


July 3, 2013

Silicon-based nanoparticles could make LEDs cheaper, greener to produce


July 2, 2013

Alumnus Jeyanandh Paramesh Promoted to Associate Professor

Alumnus Jeyanandh Paramesh (PhD ’01) was promoted to the rank of associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, effective July 1, 2013. Jeyanandh was a member of the System-on-Chip (SoC) Laboratory at UW EE. His doctoral dissertation was advised by Professor David Allstot. While pursuing his PhD, Jeyanandh collaborated closely with the Intel Communication…


July 1, 2013

Alumnus Loukas Lazos Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure

EE Alum Loukas Lazos was promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure at the University of Arizona, Tucson, effective August 2013. Loukas was a member of the Network Security Lab (NSL) at the EE Department of the University of Washington. His doctoral dissertation was advised by Professor Radha Poovendran. Loukas stayed on for…


June 6, 2013

Teaching old microphones new tricks


June 5, 2013

Sep Makhsous on the Grand Prize Winning Team at the 2013 UW Business Plan Competition

The winning team members of Pure Blue Technologies at the UW Business Plan Competition. Front Row: James Barger BS ME, Michael Lee MS ME, Ryan Vogel BS Finance (CEO), Ian Xinwei BS Finance. Back Row: Adam Greenberg BS Finance (CFO), Celso Wang BS Biology, Nick Wang BS ChemE,Alan Luo PhD Physics, Sep Makhsous PhD EE…


June 3, 2013

News digest: Recyclemania results, professor speaks on career journey, Honor: Rodney Ho


June 2, 2013

New ‘academic redshirt’ program to support undergraduate STEM education



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