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October 08, 2024:

"FeverPhone: Accessible Core-Body Temperature Sensing for Fever Monitoring Using Commodity Smartphones" won Distinguished Paper at Ubicomp 2024
October 08, 2024:

Anandghan Waghmare receives the Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award at UbiComp 2024
November 01, 2023:

"Demo of Z-Ring: Context-Aware Subtle Input Using Single-Point Bio-Impedance Sensing" wins the "Jury Best Demo Award" at UIST 2023
December 02, 2022:

"The Sound of Touch" won the 10-Year Impact Award from the ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces Conference (ISS 2022)
October 01, 2022:

Ishan Chatterjee is named 2022 National Defense in Science and Engineering Fellow
September 01, 2022:

Xin Liu is named 2022 Google PhD Fellow
August 01, 2022:

"O-pH" has been selected as a Featured Article in IEEE TBME
August 16, 2021:

Shwetak Patel is featured in Business Insiders 30 young leaders under 40 in healthcare industry
January 01, 2021:

Parker Ruth is named CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award Finalist
December 06, 2020:

"Multi-Task Temporal Shift Attention Networks for On-Device Contactless Vitals Measurement" was orally presented at NeurIPS 2020
September 23, 2020:

Article on "Challenges in Health Sensing" Earns Best Paper Runner-Up
August 01, 2020:

Alex Mariakakis starts his assistant professorship at the University of Toronto
April 01, 2020:

Parker Ruth is named a 2020 Goldwater Scholar
April 03, 2019:

Shwetak Patel receives ACM Prize in Computing for groundbreaking contributions in low-power sensing and mobile health
October 10, 2018:

Edward Wang receives Honorable Mention for the Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award at UbiComp 2018
October 10, 2018:

Alex Mariakakis receives the Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award at UbiComp 2018
October 10, 2018:

Glabella wins IMWUT 2017 Distinguished Paper Award.
October 10, 2018:

Shwetak Patel wins 10-year impact award at Ubicomp 2018
July 20, 2018:

Elliot Saba defends his thesis and has accepted a position at Julia Computing
January 25, 2018:

Eric Whitmire is awarded a 2018 Adobe Research Fellowship
January 12, 2018:

Summer high school application now available!
September 22, 2017:

Alex Mariakakis is named GeekWire's "Geek of the Week"
September 13, 2017:

Shwetak Patel wins 10-year impact award at Ubicomp 2017
September 16, 2016:

EyeContact wins ISWC 2016 Best Paper Award
September 14, 2016:

HemaApp wins UbiComp 2016 Best Paper Award
September 07, 2016:

HemaApp featured in the news — MIT Technology Review, Engadget, New Atlas, Digital Trends, and more.
August 21, 2016:

Mayank Goel defended his thesis and has accepted a faculty position at Carnegie Mellon University.
July 13, 2016:

Microsoft Research recognizes Shwetak Patel with an Outstanding Collaborator Award
June 02, 2016:

New "intelligent water" venture launches with technology from the Ubicomp lab
May 11, 2016:

PaperID featured in a UW News release
May 05, 2016:

Shwetak Patel shakes hands with President Barack Obama and collects his PECASE award from the White House
February 18, 2016:

Shwetak Patel awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
November 30, 2015:

Keyu Chen defended his thesis and has accepted a researcher position at Intel Labs.