Faculty
Shwetak N. Patel is the Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Endowed Professor in Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering. His research interests are in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, Sensor-enabled Embedded Systems, and User Interface Software and Technology. Shwetak was a co-founder of Zensi, Inc., a residential energy monitoring company, which was acquired by Belkin, Inc in 2010. He was also a co-founder of a low-power wireless sensor platform company called SNUPI Technologies and a consumer home sensing product called WallyHome, which was acquired by Sears in 2015. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008 and B.S. in Computer Science in 2003. Shwetak is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship (2011), Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship (2011), Sloan Fellowship (2012), MIT TR-35 Award (2009), NSF Career Award (2013), Presidential PECASE Award (2016), ACM Fellow (2016), and ACM Prize in Computing (2018).
Current Doctoral Students
Computer Science & Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering

Alvin Cao
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering
Research Staff
Computer Science & Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering
Current Masters Students
Current Undergraduates
Computer Science and Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Tadeusz Pforte
Computer Science and Engineering
Neuroscience
Computer Science and Engineering
Current Visiting Researchers
Assistant Professor at Tsinghua University & GIX
Former PhD Students
Research Scientist at Google
Researcher at Microsoft Research
Research Scientist at Apple
Assistant Professor at the University of Washington
Architect and Head of MLSys at OctoML
Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University
Researcher at Microsoft Research
Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research India

Matthew Kay
Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan
Assistant Professor at Southern Methodist University

Tien-jui Lee
Engineer at Google
Researcher at Microsoft Research
Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto
MLSys Engineer at OctoML
Software Engineer at Google Research
Research Scientist at Amazon
Senior Research Engineer at Julia Computing
Assistant Professor at UCSD
Research Scientist at Facebook Reality Labs
Former Masters Students
Md Tanvir Islam Aumi
Jake Garrison
Fran Iannacci
Olga Khvan
Jack Lindsay
Sean Liu
Eric Swanson
Aspen Tng
Yiran Zhao
Former Undergraduates
Rajas Agashe
Ramses Alcaide
Sergey Alekhnovich
Megan Banks
Steven Benaloh
Tim Campbell
Eric Chan
Yuxiang Chen
Michael Chou
Matt Dorsett
Michael Fadaie
Sunil Garg
Ka Ho Guh
Alex Horton
Divye Jain
Siju Jiang
Brandon Johanson
Michael Johnson
Mayank Kathuria
Han Kim
Justin Kotalik
Stefan Kristjansson
William Li
Frank Liu
Clara Lu
Andrew Luo
Aishwarya Mandyam
Vardhman Mehta
Jonas Michel
Josh Peterson
Cameron Pickett
Rajneil Rana
Julia Schwarz
Ryan Smoots
Tom Sommerville
Clint Tseng
Erik Turnquist
Ying Wang
Meiling Wu
Michael Yi
Samuel Yisrael
Junyi Zhu
Milda Zizyte