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 →
UW CSE alum Stefan Savage honored with ACM-Infosys Foundation Award
UW CSE Ph.D. alum Stefan Savage, currently a professor at UCSD, was named the recipient of the 2015 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences today. He earned the award, which recognizes individuals whose early contributions in their careers have had a fundamental impact on the field of computing, for his “innovative research in network security, privacy, and reliability that has taught us to view attacks and attackers as elements of an integrated technological, societal, and economic system.”
Savage,… Read more →
UW CSE students shine in 2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship competition
The National Science Foundation announced the recipients of its 2016 Graduate Research Fellowships today and UW boasts the second highest number of fellowship recipients in the nation in the “Computer and Information Science and Engineering” category. A total of eight UW students earned Fellowships in the computing field—including seven from UW CSE—and eight more earned Honorable Mentions.
NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program supports outstanding student researchers pursuing Master’s and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics who demonstrate the… Read more →
Crosscut highlights UW CSE’s role in “bringing women back to computer science”
Women historically have played a significant role in computer science. While the field has gone backward in recent decades when it comes to gender diversity, UW CSE has made a concerted effort to buck that trend and attracted national attention as a result.
Seattle online journal Crosscut recently caught up with UW CSE B.S./M.S. student Sonja Khan and Ph.D. student Irene Zhang to find out what makes this program so special. Their experiences reinforce the notion that, when it comes… Read more →
Where the jobs are – 2016 edition
The 2016 NSF Science & Engineering Indicators have recently been released, including data on the numbers of degrees granted in various fields of science and engineering.
Similarly, the 2016 US Bureau of Labor Statistics job projections have recently been released, covering the decade 2014-2024.
The Tale of the Tape: A chart of “annualized jobs available” (from BLS) vs. “annual degrees granted” (from NSF) for various fields.
The story in Washington State is the same. Three state educational agencies… Read more →
Mesosphere raises $73.5 million Series C
Mesosphere, a “data center operating system” company derived from a course project by UW CSE bachelors alum Ben Hindman when he was a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, has raised $73.5 million in Series C funding.
Ben will receive the University of Washington College of Engineering Diamond Award for Early Career Achievement in May.
Check it out in TechCrunch here.… Read more →