Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, a professor in UW CSE’s GRAIL group, and Eli Shlizerman, a professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics, have joined the Research at Facebook team. Facebook’s gain is not UW’s loss, however, as the duo will be splitting their time between the company and campus.
In a welcome post, Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, Facebook’s director of applied machine learning, expressed excitement at what Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, an expert in computer vision and graphics, and Shlizerman, an expert… Read more →
When it comes to cybersecurity, UW student team is full of tricks
As National Cyber Security Awareness Month draws to a close, we thought we would treat you to some news on Batman’s Kitchen, UW’s frightfully good team of undergraduate hacking heroes who are preparing once again to battle the virtual bad guys. The team — CSE’s Alex Kirchhoff and Bo Wang, Dan Arens of Atmospheric Sciences, and Stanley Hsieh of Physics — will compete in the finals of the Capture the Flag competition hosted by New York University next month.
CTF… Read more →
UW CSE and AI2 in the New York Times: “Artificial intelligence at your fingertips”
The New York Times published an article over the weekend exploring recent advances in approximate computing in response to a slowdown in Moore’s Law. In the article, UW CSE professor Ali Farhadi, who splits his time between campus and Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, shared the results of work with CSE Ph.D. student Joe Redmon and his AI2 colleagues, Mohammad Rastegari and Vicente Ordóñez, to develop efficient variations of convolutional neural networks for object recognition and detection.… Read more →
UW CSE’s Will Strimling combines a passion for data and politics at FiveThirtyEight
Will Strimling is a UW CSE undergraduate with a passion for data visualization and politics. This quarter, he has taken a break from hitting the books for an opportunity to work as a Visual Journalism Intern with Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight, one of the most influential sites for analysis of the 2016 election. If you are following the race for the Oval Office — and like the proverbial car wreck, who could look away? — you have probably seen some… Read more →
UW CSE’s Annie Ross excels in ACM Student Research Competition
UW CSE Ph.D. student Annie Ross earned second place in the graduate student category of the ACM Student Research Competition at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing last week. In her poster titled “Enhancing the Accessibility of Mobile Apps,” Ross presented research aimed at enabling third parties to repair and enhance accessibility of mobile applications.
While Ross’ work focuses primarily on mobile apps for people who are blind or low-vision, it involves techniques that can be applied more… Read more →
Engineers want to turn your living room into a wireless charging station
A team of engineers from the UW, Duke University, and Intellectual Ventures’ Invention Science Fund has moved a step closer to liberating us from those pesky power cords and bulky battery chargers. In a paper posted on arXiv, the researchers explain how flat-screen technology could be used to build a wireless power transfer system right into a wall or ceiling that is capable of efficiently charging a variety of devices in a room.
According to UW CSE and Electrical… Read more →
UW CSE’s Thomas Rothvoss profiled in UW Today
UW Today has published a great article on newly-minted Packard Fellow Thomas Rothvoss, a professor in UW CSE’s Theory group and the UW Department of Mathematics. In it, Rothvoss explains how his research at the intersection of computer science and mathematics aids in the design of more efficient algorithms for analyzing complex datasets — and how the fellowship will aid him in advancing this research working alongside his students.
From the article:
“‘This is really a problem of optimization,’… Read more →
Seattle Times: Job recruiters work to woo UW computer science students
“Daphna Khen happily described her normal workday to a prospective Zillow job candidate Thursday at the University of Washington …
“Yes, there are many opportunities to learn different skills. Senior engineers offer ‘office hours,’ and everyone Khen asks is happy to help out troubleshooting any issue.
“Job seekers at the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) recruiting fair generally don’t ask Khen about salary or vacation days or health benefits. They’re more interested in how she likes her job and the… Read more →
It’s UW CSE’s autumn recruiting day for established companies!
Thank goodness the fire marshal is otherwise occupied!
Many thanks to the companies recruiting today, and on Tuesday. And thanks to our Industry Affiliates and local alums for the great turnout at our Open House on Wednesday evening. (See our previous post about the Madrona Prize and People’s Choice Award.)… Read more →
Madrona and UW CSE recognize student innovation
Each year as part of our Industry Affiliates meeting, UW CSE welcomes alumni and friends to a celebration of student research and its potential for impact. Our annual open house, which was held last night, features good food, great company, and terrific posters and demos that showcase an impressive variety of projects from the CSE labs.
The event also features the Madrona Prize, an award from our friends at Madrona Venture Group that recognizes student research with commercialization potential,… Read more →