Last night, Microsoft treated UW students who will join the company this year as either full-time employees or interns to a dinner cruise on Lake Union and Lake Washington. More than 60 of the more than 100 UW recruits heading to Microsoft this year—the majority from CSE—joined in the fun, including a spectacular Seattle sunset.
Thanks to Microsoft for its continuing support of UW CSE and our students! (And special thanks to our phenomenal Microsoft recruiter, Becky Tucker!)
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UW Tech Policy Lab Distinguished Lecture: General Kevin Chilton on deterrence in the 21st century
The UW Tech Policy Lab will welcome General Kevin Chilton, retired head of U.S. Strategic Command, to campus next week as part of its Distinguished Lecture Series. General Chilton will address the topic “Deterrence in the 21st Century: From Nuclear, to Space, to Cyberspace.”
General Chilton served for nearly 35 years as a member of the U.S. Air Force. As Commander of U.S. Strategic Command from 2007 until his retirement in 2011, he directed planning and operations… Read more →
UW CSE’s Austin Stromme wins Goldwater Scholarship
UW sophomore Austin Stromme, who is pursuing a double major in computer science and mathematics, has been selected as a 2016 Goldwater Scholar.
Stromme worked with professor James Lee of UW CSE’s Theory group last year on graph theoretic methods in computational linear algebra. Currently, he is working with math professor Jim Morrow on the use of discrete harmonic cohomology modules to understand the geometry of boundary graphs, and with Ph.D. student Matthew Junge to analyze the frog… Read more →
UW CSE’s Rajesh Rao wins 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship
UW CSE professor Rajesh Rao, an expert in brain-computer interfaces, has been recognized with a 2016 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Rao, who leads the National Science Foundation’s Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, was chosen based on his past achievements and exceptional potential to make future contributions in the field of neuroscience. He is the third UW CSE faculty member to receive this prestigious award.
The Guggenheim Fellowship is designed for mid-career scientists, scholars and artists… Read more →
UW CSE’s Krittika D’Silva named Gates Cambridge Scholar
UW senior Krittika D’Silva has been named a 2016 Gates Cambridge Scholar, one of the most prestigious international scholarships in the world. D’Silva, who will graduate from the UW this June with a degree in computer engineering and bioengineering, will pursue her Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Cambridge’s Jesus College starting in the fall.
D’Silva currently works with UW CSE professor Luis Ceze in the Molecular Information Systems Lab, where she is assisting the development… Read more →
UW and Microsoft researchers create system to store and retrieve digital images using DNA
Researchers from the UW’s Molecular Information Systems Lab (MISL) have created one of the first systems that uses DNA molecules to store digital images — and successfully demonstrated the ability to retrieve the encoded images intact.
UW CSE professor Luis Ceze, joint CSE and EE professor Georg Seelig, CSE affiliate faculty members Doug Carmean and Karin Strauss of Microsoft Research, CSE Ph.D. student James Bornholt, and BioE Ph.D. student Randolph Lopez are the authors of an ASPLOS… Read more →
Bill Howe explains the technology behind the Panama Papers leak
UW CSE affiliate professor Bill Howe, associate director of the UW’s eScience Institute, was interviewed for a USA Today story on the recent Panama Papers leak. Howe explained the way in which today’s data science tools—from low-cost cloud services to easily available translation and data mining software—made it possible to rapidly untangle and analyze the contents of more than 11 million documents from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca.
From the article:
“Dealing with a data drop like the… Read more →
Justin Hsia to join UW CSE faculty
Justin Hsia, currently a postdoc in UC Berkeley’s Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences department, will join the UW CSE faculty as a lecturer in the fall. Hsia earned his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in EECS and B.S. degrees in EECS and Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley, where his research focuses on synthetic biology and biological systems analysis as a member of the Networked Dynamical Systems Group.
Hsia will arrive at UW CSE with extensive experience in teaching both… Read more →
UW CSE’s Su-In Lee wins NSF CAREER Award
Joint UW CSE and Genome Sciences professor Su-In Lee, whose research focuses on the intersection of computer science and biology, has received an NSF CAREER Award. The award will support her efforts to develop a computational framework for identifying how the human genome interacts with hundreds of regulatory molecules—research that will answer fundamental questions to advance our understanding of how the human genome works.
Lee develops novel statistical and machine learning techniques to solve a variety of thorny problems… Read more →
Don’t miss the New Tech Seattle meetup at UW CSE!
New Tech Northwest and UW CSE are co-hosting the fourth annual New Tech Seattle UW meetup on Tuesday, April 12th. The event, which features good food, great company and great content from local innovators, will take place from 5:00 to 7:15 pm in the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering.
UW CSE and EE professor Shwetak Patel will kick off the program, which will also feature presentations by five companies developing solutions in big data, machine learning… Read more →