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UW’s AccessMap makes navigating Seattle safer and more accessible for all

This week a team of researchers working with UW CSE’s Taskar Center for Accessible Technology rolled out an online travel planner, AccessMap, which enables people to easily map out accessible or pedestrian-friendly routes for getting around Seattle. AccessMap’s customizable routing includes information on gradient, curb ramps, and closures due to construction — features that will make navigating the city easier for all users, including travelers with luggage, parents with strollers, delivery drivers, and people who rely on assistive devices.… Read more →
February 2, 2017

UW CSE’s Kira Goldner wins Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship

UW CSE graduate student Kira Goldner has been named a 2017 Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellow. She is one of only 10 young researchers in North America to be recognized as the “best and brightest” in computer science and related fields in this year’s fellowship competition. Goldner is a third-year Ph.D. student who works with professor Anna Karlin in UW CSE’s Theory group on algorithmic mechanism design and approximation algorithms. Most of Goldner’s work so far has been focused on… Read more →
February 2, 2017

UW CSE+EE startup Jeeva Wireless raises $1.2 million for Passive Wi-Fi

Jeeva Wireless, a UW spinoff created by faculty and students in CSE and Electrical Engineering, has raised $1.2 million to commercialize a line of research based on backscatter — a groundbreaking approach that harvests ambient wireless signals to enable devices to communicate without draining battery power. Relevant projects include Passive Wi-Fi, a system that is capable of generating Wi-Fi transmissions using 10,000 times less power than conventional methods, and Interscatter, which enables implanted medical devices to communicate… Read more →
February 1, 2017

How undergraduate Mitali Palekar developed a passion for programming and diversity at UW CSE

This week, UW CSE catches up with computer science major Mitali Palekar for the latest installment of our Undergrad Spotlight. Palekar is a sophomore from Cupertino, California who spent a portion of her childhood in Mumbai, India and is trained in Bharatanatyam, an Indian classical dance form. Palekar serves as an undergraduate research assistant in the Security & Privacy Research Lab. Last summer, she completed an internship at NASA working on a project for the HoloLens. She has wholeheartedly… Read more →
January 27, 2017

It’s winter recruiting season at UW CSE!

And as usual, our established company fair has been packed all afternoon with eager recruiters and students! We saw a similar scene yesterday for our startup recruiting fair. It was great to catch up with the UW CSE alumni who were back on campus, talking with current students about internship and employment opportunities with their companies (and handing out some pretty awesome schwag). Many thanks to the nearly 80 companies from our Industry Affiliates who participated over the past… Read more →
January 26, 2017

UW CSE postdoc Vamsi Talla wins WAGS/UMI Outstanding Innovation in Technology Award for his UW EE Ph.D. dissertation

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 PlatformsRead more →
January 26, 2017

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 →
January 25, 2017

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 →
January 20, 2017

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 →
January 20, 2017

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 →
January 19, 2017

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