Electrical Engineering

Research

Current Faculty Research Projects

These are the currently funded research projects going on in the UW Electrical Engineering department, listed according to their relevant research group.

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Advanced Energy Systems and Technologies

Industrial Assessment Center at the University of Washington
Alexander Mamishev


Applied Microtechnology and Micro-Electromechanical Systems

Non-destructive Measurement of Moisture Distribution with Fringing Electric Field Sensors
Alexander Mamishev

Modeling and Synthesis of 3D Self-Assembly Processes
Karl F. Bohringer, Eric Klavins

IREE Supplement-Modeling and Synthesis of 3D Self Assembly Processes
Karl F. Bohringer

NIRT: Protein-Aided Nanomanufacturing
Karl F. Bohringer

Sensor and Sensor Systems Simulation Tool for Basic Modeling and Simulation of OFETs and OFET-Based Circuits
Larry Dalton (Chemistry), Denise M. Wilson

Modeling and Simulation of Silicon Wafer Preparation
Scott Dunham


Communications and Networking

Feasibility Study on General-Multicarrier (GMC) and IEEE 802.16e Integration
Hui Liu

Information Assurance for Energy Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks
Raadhakrishnan Poovendran

Boeing-University of Washington Strategic Plan for External Business
Raadhakrishnan Poovendran

Secure Network Initialization and Multi-Group Key Management for Sensor Networks
Raadhakrishnan Poovendran

Designing Reliable and Secure Tactical MANETS
Raadhakrishnan Poovendran

PECASE: Information Assurance for Energy Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks
Radha Poovendran

Wireless MESH Networks: PHY/MAC Optimization
Sumit Roy


Integrated Systems

Ultra-Low Cost Micro-Scale Wireless Monitoring of Chemical Processes
Brian Otis, Babak Amirparviz

Reconfigurable Master/Slave Locked Low Noise Amplifiers
Brian Otis

Low Power, Low Phase-Noise MEMS-Based Quadrature VCO
Brian Otis

CDADIC Mixed-Signal Research 3
Carl Sechen, R. Bruce Darling, David Allstot

Achieving High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing in Commodity Devices
Scott Hauck


Photonics

Micro-instrumentation for Optical Manipulation of Biological Cells with Fine Orientation Control and Low Optical Intensity
Lih Lin


RF, Antennas, and Remote Sensing

Assimilation of EOS Remote Sensing Data for Hydrologic Forecasting in the Pacific Northwest
Leung Tsang, Dennis Lettenmaier (Civil Engineering), Ed Josberger (U.S. Geological Survey)

A Rapid Full-Wave Electromagnetic Simulation Approach for Accurate Characterization of Microelectronic Structures
Vikram Jandhyala

Package Optimization Based on Hierarchical EM-Circuit Simulation and Hierarchical Response Surface Models
Vikram Jandhyala

Collaborative Research: Design of Dense RFID Systems for Indexing in the Physical World Across Space, Time, and Human Experience
Vikram Jandhyala

PILOT - A Simulation and Design Framework for Microelectronics and Nanotechnology
Vikram Jandhyala

Integrated Design Analysis for Lab-on-chip Microsystems
Vikram Jandhyala


Robotics, Automation, Control & Mechatronics

EFRI-ARESCI: Controlling the Autonomously Reconfiguring Stochastic Factory
Eric Klavins

Specification, Design and Verification of Distributed Embedded Systems
Eric Klavins

NSF REU: Programmed Robotic Self Assembly
Eric Klavins

CAREER: Programmed Robotic Self Assembly
Eric Klavins


Speech, Image, and Video Processing

A Framework for Encoding American Sign Language and Other Structured Video
Eve Riskin, Richard Ladner (Computer Science & Engineering)

ITR: The Vocal Joystick: Voice-based Assistive Technology for Individuals with Motor Impairments
Jeff Bilmes, Howard Chizeck, Patricia Dowden (Speech and Hearing), Katrin Kirchhoff, James Landay (Computer Science & Engineering), Richard Wright (Linguistics)

Human-Like Speech
Jeff Bilmes, Katrin Kirchhoff, Dani Byrd (University of Southern California), Shrikanth Narayanan (University of Southern California), Daniel Jurafsky (Stanford), Christopher Manning (Stanford)

Flow-based Peer-to-peer Identification
Jenq-Neng Hwang, Alan Lippman

VoIP and Scalable Video Over Wireless Broadband
Jenq-Neng Hwang, James Ritcey

Using Machine Translation to Bootstrap Speech Recognition Systems
Katrin Kirchhoff

Coherent Modulation Frequency Representation and Filtering
Les Atlas

Demonstration of Hearing Aid Breakthrough
Les E. Atlas, Pamela Souza (Speech and Hearing)

Learning from Heterogeneous Data
Maya Gupta

Optimization and Quality Assessment of Quantized Dither
Maya Gupta

ONR YIP: Joint Signal Deconvolution and Classification
Maya R. Gupta

ExpertiseNet: Relational and Evolutionary User Modeling
Ming-Ting Sun

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