From Ubicomp Lab - University of Washington

Contents 1 2012 2 2011 3 2010 4 2009

2012

• October 2012: Shwetak Patel receives the Georgia Tech GVU 20th Anniversary Impact Award.

• September 2012: "An Ultra-Low-Power Human Body Motion Sensor Using Static Electric Field Sensing" awarded Best Paper at Ubicomp 2012

• September 2012: "Lullaby: A Capture & Access System for Understanding the Sleep Environment" awarded Best Paper Award at Ubicomp 2012

• September 2012: "SpiroSmart: Using a Microphone to Measure Lung Function on a Mobile Phone" awarded Best Paper Nominee at Ubicomp 2012

• September 2012: "Investigating Receptiveness to Sensing and Inference in the Home Using Sensor Proxies" awarded Best Paper Nominee at Ubicomp 2012

• May 2012: Shwetak Patel receives the UW EE Outstanding Research Advisor Award.

• May 2012: Shwetak Patel nominated for the UW EE Outstanding Teaching Award.

• May 2012: Ph.D. student Eric Larson nominated for the UW EE Yang Award for Outstanding Graduate Student.

• May 2012: Ph.D. student Gabe Cohn nominated for the UW EE Yang Award for Outstanding Graduate Student.

• May 2012: Eric Larson awarded the UW College of Engineering Student Research Innovator Award.

• May 2012: "WalkType: Using Accelerometer Data to Accommodate Situational Impairments in Mobile Touch Screen Text Entry" awarded Honorable Mention at CHI 2012

• May 2012: "Humantenna: Using the Body as an Antenna for Real-Time Whole-Body Interaction" awarded Honorable Mention at CHI 2012

• April 2012: Undergraduate student Milda Zizyte receives the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

• February 2012: Shwetak Patel awarded the Sloan Research Fellowship

• January 2012: Ph.D. student Gabe Cohn receives the Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship

2011

• December 2011: Ph.D. student Sidhant Gupta awarded one of the 30 technology innovators under the age of 30 in the Forbes "30 under 30".

• October 2011: Ph.D. student Gabe Cohn receives top prize in the 2011 Madrona Prize at the 2011-2012 CSE Industrial Affiliates Day for his work on Humantenna.

• September 2011: Shwetak Patel awarded the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Award

• July 2011: Shwetak Patel awarded the Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship.

• June 2011: Shwetak Patel awarded the UW College of Engineering Faculty Innovator Junior Award.

• May 2011: Shwetak Patel receives the UW EE Outstanding Research Advisor Award.

• May 2011: Shwetak Patel nominated for the UW EE Outstanding Teaching Award.

• May 2011: Ph.D. student Gabe Cohn nominated for the UW EE Yang Award for Outstanding Graduate Student.

• May 2011: "Your Noise is My Command: Sensing Gestures Using the Body as an Antenna" awarded Best Paper at CHI 2011

• May 2011: "Interactive Generator: A Self-Powered Haptic Feedback Device" awarded Best Note at CHI 2011

• May 2011: "HeatWave: ThermalImaging for Surface User Interaction" awarded Honorable Mention at CHI 2011

2010

• December 2010: Ph.D. student Ke-Yu Chen awarded the highest rated TA of the Autumn Quarter in the College of Engineering.

• October 2010: Ph.D. student Gabe Cohn receives runner-up for the 2010 Madrona Prize at the 2010-2011 CSE Industrial Affiliates Day for his work on SNUPI.

• October 2010: Shwetak Patel receives the 2010 Top Innovator award from Seattle Business magazine

• September 2010: "ElectriSense: Single-Point Sensing Using EMI for Electrical Event Detection and Classification in the Home" awarded Best Paper at the ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) 2010

• September 2010: "SNUPI: Senor Nodes Utilizing Powerline Infrastructure" nominated for Best Paper at the ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) 2010

• May 2010: Ph.D. student Eric Larson finalist for the Yang Award (Outstanding Graduate Student) at the 2010 University of Washington Electrical Engineering Awards Event

• May 2010: Shwetak Patel nominated for the Outstanding Research Advisor Award at the 2010 University of Washington Electrical Engineering Awards Event

• May 2010: Ph.D. student Eric Larson recognized as being a Teaching Assistant in the Professional Master's Program (PMP) at the 2010 University of Washington Electrical Engineering Awards Event

• April 2010: Ph.D. student Jon Froehlich awarded the UW College of Engineering Innovator Award

• April 2010: Ubicomp Lab's energy- and water-sensing technology acquired by Belkin. UW News

• April 2010: Ph.D. student Gabe Cohn receives the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

• April 2010: "The Design of Eco-Feedback Technology" awarded Best Paper at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2010

• April 2010: "The Design and Evaluation of an End-User-Deployable, Whole House, Contactless Power Consumption Sensor" nominated for Best Paper at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2010

• March 2010: "Automatic Classification of Daily Fluid Intake" awarded Best Paper at the International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare 2010

2009

• October 2009: Each year at UW CSE’s Industrial Affiliates Meeting , Madrona Venture Group recognizes the most “entrepreneurially interesting” graduate student research presentations. Our group's Sustainability Sensing work won the Madrona Grand Prize. Read on CSE News

• Summer 2009: Shwetak Patel receives 2009 TR-35 Award