UW CSE Ph.D. alum Donald Chinn, an Associate Professor in UW-Tacoma’s Institute of Technology, is one of seven winners of 2014 University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Awards.
Donald will be recognized at the Awards of Excellence ceremony on June 12 – along with UW CSE professor Gaetano Borriello, who will receive the Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award.
Congratulations Donald!… Read more →
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Noah Snavely wins PECASE award
UW CSE Ph.D. alumnus Noah Snavely, now on the computer science faculty at Cornell University, is one of three computer science recipients of this year’s NSF Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the United States government’s highest honor for scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers.
Noah, whose Ph.D. advisor was Steve Seitz, was recognized “For innovative research in developing new computer-vision algorithms for scalable 3-D reconstruction; camera location estimation from… Read more →
Joel Cohn, Shiri Azenkot, Julie Kientz, Eric Klavins: UW College of Engineering “Community of Innovators” award winners!
Each year the University of Washington College of Engineering presents “Community of Innovators” awards to a half dozen faculty and staff members.
This year’s Classified Staff Innovator: CSE’s Joel Cohn.
This year’s Student Innovator for Research: CSE’s Shiri Azenkot.
This year’s Faculty Innovator for Research: HCDE faculty member and CSE Adjunct faculty member Julie Kientz.
This year’s Faculty Innovator for Teaching and Learning: EE faculty member and CSE Adjunct faculty member Eric Klavins.
Congratulations Joel, Shiri, Julie, and Eric!… Read more →
Seattle Tech Meetup @ UW CSE
Seattle Tech Meetup – Seattle’s largest ongoing monthly event – brings the technology and startup community together on the 2nd or 3rd Tuesday of each month.
Today was UW CSE’s annual opportunity to host STM. Somewhere north of 500 people crammed into the Allen Center atrium to socialize and hear about 5 UW startups:
AnswerDash presented by Jake Wobbrock & Andy Ko
GraphLab presented by Carlos Guestrin
Qumulo presented by Peter Godman
UserMind presented by Przemek Pardyak
SNUPI (Wally) presented… Read more →
Alisha Saxena to represent Central Puget Sound at 2014 Intel International Science & Engineering Fair
Alisha Saxena, a senior from Interlake High School, was named the First Runner-Up in the 2014 Central Sound Regional Science & Engineering Fair. Alisha’s project, “Analyzing and Preventing Quick Response Code Based Malware and Phishing Attacks for Smartphones,” was conducted in UW CSE’s Security and Privacy Research Laboratory, where she has been mentored by Ph.D. student Franzi Roesner and professor Yoshi Kohno.
In addition to being named First Runner-Up, Alisha also won first place in the Computer… Read more →
Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship to Vincent Liu, Vamsi Talla
UW CSE Ph.D. student Vincent Liu and UW EE Ph.D. student Vamsi Talla, working with UW CSE professor Shyam Gollakota and UW CSE+EE professor Josh Smith, are one of 9 teams to receive 2014 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowships.
Out of 137 submitted proposals (from 18 schools) Qualcomm first selected 34 finalists, then the 9 winning teams, each of whom are awarded a $100,000 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship.
Vincent and Vamsi are working on the Ambient Backscatter project.
Another of the 9… Read more →
Best paper at IEEE RFID
The Sensor Systems Lab – in the person of EE graduate student Aaron Parks and CSE+EE faculty member Joshua Smith – has won the Best Paper Award at IEEE RFID for the 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 multi-band harvester can capture power from any subset of a group of pre-selected frequencies. Previous systems would be unlikely to work when moved… Read more →
Sound Startups
UW CSE is sponsoring a KIRO TV series, “Sound Startups,” highlighting the Puget Sound region’s innovation economy. The promo for the series features Jeremy Jaech (SNUPI), Sarah Bird (Moz), and Glenn Kelman (Redfin). It’s great! Check it out: mp4 here; Windows Media here. Vimeo and downloads here.… Read more →
Automated age-progression software lets you see how a child will age!
It’s a guessing game parents like to ponder: What will my child look like when she grows up? For better or for worse, research by UW CSE professors Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman and Steve Seitz and UW CSE graduate student Supasorn Suwajanakorn has yielded software that answers this question!
Using a single photo of a 3-year-old, the software automatically renders facial images at multiple ages. The researchers tested their rendered images against those of 82 actual people photographed over a span of… Read more →
New York Times: “Technology’s Man Problem”
A thought-provoking article by Claire Cain Miller:
“‘It’s a thousand tiny paper cuts,’ is how Ashe Dryden, a programmer who now consults on increasing diversity in technology, described working in tech.”
“‘We see these stories, ‘Why aren’t there more women in computer science and engineering?’ and there’s all these complicated answers like, ‘School advisers don’t have them take math and physics,’ and it’s probably true,’ said Lauren Weinstein, a man who has spent his four-decade career in tech working mostly… Read more →