UW CSE postdoc and Electrical Engineering Ph.D. alum Vamsi Talla has been recognized with the 2016 WAGS/UMI Outstanding Innovation in Technology Award. The award, which is sponsored by the Western Association of Graduate Schools (WAGS) and University Microfilms International (UMI), recognizes a graduate thesis or dissertation that presents an innovative technology which offers a creative solution to a significant problem. Talla earned the award for his 2016 doctoral dissertation, “Power, Communication and Sensing Solutions for Energy Constrained Platforms… Read more →
UW CSE alum Brandon Lucia profiled in “People of ACM”
The latest edition of the Association for Computing Machinery’s “People of ACM” features a great conversation with UW CSE alum Brandon Lucia (Ph.D., ’13), now a member of the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University. “People of ACM” is a regular feature that highlights members whose personal and professional stories serve as an inspiration to the broader computing community and whose work is helping to advance computing as a science and as a profession.
As a Ph.D. student, Lucia… Read more →
Join UW CSE for a celebration of women at the frontiers of science and engineering
This afternoon, UW will celebrate the Frontiers of Science & Engineering at a symposium presented by UW CSE, ACM-W and the Society of Women Engineers. The symposium will feature members of the UW faculty who have made significant contributions through research and mentorship of other women in the fields of computing, biology, aeronautics and astronautics, electrical engineering, physics, and more.
Professor Magda Balazinska, a member of UW CSE’s Database group and one of the event’s organizers, will kick off… Read more →
UW CSE’s Dieter Fox wins AAAI Classic Paper Award, again
Professor Dieter Fox of UW CSE’s Robotics and State Estimation Lab has been recognized by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence with the 2017 AAAI Classic Paper Award. Fox shares the award for the 1999 paper “Monte Carlo Localization: Efficient Position Estimation for Mobile Robots” with co-authors Wolfram Burgard, Frank Dellaert and Sebastian Thrun.
The AAAI Classic Paper Award honors authors of the conference paper deemed to have been the most influential within the… Read more →
Technical Interview Coaching @ UW CSE
Thanks to our friends from Amazon, GE Digital, Indeed, Karat, Microsoft, PayScale, RealSelf, and Whitepages who provided technical interview coaching to nearly 100 CSE students on Wednesday afternoon!… Read more →
Senior faculty hires Sidd Srinivasa and Michael Taylor set to advance UW’s leadership in robotics and computer engineering research
UW CSE is preparing to welcome two game-changing senior hires, robotic manipulation expert Siddhartha “Sidd” Srinivasa and influential computer engineering researcher Michael Taylor, this fall. Srinivasa, who is widely regarded as one of the leading minds in robotic manipulation and human-robot interaction, will advance UW CSE as one of a few truly world-class centers of robotics research. Taylor, who has accepted a joint appointment in CSE and Electrical Engineering, brings expertise in leading-edge hardware design — further building UW’s reputation… Read more →
Frontiers of Science and Engineering at UW
Join us for this symposium highlighting the accomplishments of some of the University of Washington’s outstanding women scientists and engineers.
Friday January 20
3:00-5:00 (reception starting at 2:30)
Savery 260
Full agenda here.… Read more →
UW CSE Winter Quarter résumé review workshop
Many thanks to the alums and friends from Amazon, CDK Global, Facebook, GE Digital, Google, Impinj, Microsoft, PayScale, Qumulo, RealSelf, and Whitepages who reviewed the résumés of 129 CSE students on Wednesday evening!
Next up: technical interview coaching next Wednesday!… Read more →
UW Regents launch construction of CSE2
The UW Board of Regents today approved the immediate start of construction on a second building that will accommodate a significant expansion of CSE. The building – slated to open in two years – will occupy a site across Stevens Way from the existing Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering on UW’s Seattle campus.
Today’s action by the Regents is the culmination of a multi-year effort on the part of leaders from the University, state government, the… Read more →
White House recognizes UW’s Emily Fox with Presidential Early Career Award
Emily Fox, Amazon Professor of Machine Learning, has been selected to receive a 2017 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The award is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government upon scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers.
Fox is among 102 scientists and engineers (only 19 via the National Science Foundation) who are being recognized by the White House for advancing the frontiers of science and technology and serving… Read more →