UW CSE announced today the creation of the Guestrin Endowed Professorship in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to support efforts to recruit and retain outstanding faculty in these leading-edge areas of the field. The $1 million endowment, which is named after CSE professor and machine learning expert Carlos Guestrin, was made possible by Apple’s acquisition of CSE spin-out Turi last year.
Guestrin has been a member of the UW CSE since 2012, when he was named the Amazon Professor… Read more →
UW CSE receives $5 million gift from philanthropists, technologists and entrepreneurs Charles and Lisa Simonyi
The campaign to expand UW CSE received a major boost today through a $5 million gift from longtime philanthropists Charles and Lisa Simonyi. The couple’s gift, which will help fund construction of a second building that will enable UW CSE to double annual degree production, is the largest personal donation received toward the project.
“The need for more computer scientists and computer engineers in the Puget Sound region to build on the legacy of innovation here is well known, and… Read more →
UW CSE + EE professor Shwetak Patel to deliver NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture on mobile health
Tune in Wednesday, February 15th, when UW CSE and Electrical Engineering professor Shwetak Patel will deliver a talk on the emerging role of mobile phones in health as part of the National Science Foundation’s Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Distinguished Lecture Series.
In his presentation, Patel will describe how he and his students in the UbiComp Lab have leveraged the increasingly sophisticated sensing capabilities of mobile phones to create palm-sized, yet powerful, health diagnostics and disease management… Read more →
UW CSE undergrad Nate Yazdani’s love of research “PLSE-es” through his veins
In the latest edition of our Undergrad Spotlight, we catch up with Nate Yazdani, a senior computer science major who works as an undergraduate research assistant with professor Ras Bodik of UW CSE’s Programming Languages & Software Engineering (PLSE) group. Yazdani, who hails from Battle Ground, Washington, chose to study computer science because of his keen interest in math, logic and programming — a choice he hopes will lead to graduate school and a career in academic research.
He… Read more →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 Platforms… Read more →