Research Showcase 2025
Thursday, March 13, 2025
Event sponsored by Apple, Blue Origin, Madrona, and Microsoft
Our ninth annual UW ECE Research Showcase featured cutting-edge research projects from UW ECE graduate students. Visitors had a chance to review posters, speak with the students and their advisers and learn more about the exciting projects underway across the various labs at UW ECE. The Research Showcase was also a perfect opportunity for visiting prospective students to learn more about the Department’s research.
Research Showcase is UW ECE’s premier event for students to showcase the exciting research projects they are working on in labs and groups across all areas of electrical and computer engineering. This event allows our students to present top research in a variety of areas with societal impact. The topics covered include artificial intelligence, medical device technologies, power and energy, transportation, the environment, wireless communications and more.
2025 Research Showcase Projects
1ADVANCED MODELING AND SENSOR NETWORK DESIGN FOR REAL-TIME CHARACTERIZATION OF THE IONOSPHERIC D-REGIONZheng Liu, Xueyicheng Xu, Nicklaus Thompson, Tusty, Nicholas Rich, Mingcheng Yang, Taniish Agarwal, Osman Brown, Daikun Wu Adviser: Alexander V. Mamishev
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2CONVEX CONTROL OF GRID-INTERFACING INVERTERS WITH CURRENT LIMITSLauren Streitmatter, Trager Joswig-Jones Adviser: Baosen Zhang
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3Integrating Social Equity and Climate Vulnerability Considerations into Grid Resilience Planning: Insights from AccraKwame Donkor, June Lukuyu Adviser: June Lukuyu
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4COMPARATIVE STUDY OF E-GAN FETS FOR HIGH POWER AND FREQUENCY WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSIONAntara Banerjee Adviser: Jungwon Choi
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5Powering the last mile: Distributed & Equitable Charging for Electric Three Wheelers in Kolkata, IndiaAhana Mukherjee, June Lukuyu Adviser: June Lukuyu
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7ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF PARALLELED CLASS-PHI CONVERTERS FOR HIGH-FREQUENCY AND HIGH-POWER APPLICATIONSManas Palmal Adviser: Jungwon Choi
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8MODELING AND OPTIMIZATION OF MHZ SELF-RESONANT PLANAR COIL FOR WIRELESS POWER TRANSFERGhovindo Siadari, Jungwon Choi Adviser: Jungwon Choi
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9Online Voltage Regulation of Distribution Systems with Disturbance-Action ControllersPeng Zhang, Baosen Zhang Adviser: Baosen Zhang
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10“My WiFi is not working!”
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11FlowRing: Integrating Microgestures and Surface Interaction for Seamless XR InputJiexin Ding, Ishan Chatterjee, Anandghan Waghmare, Joseph Breda, Yuquan Deng, Bo Liu, Yuntao Wang, Shwetak Patel Advisers: Akshay Gadre, Shwetak Patel
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12TASK ASSIGNMENT STRATEGY OPTIMIZATION FOR POST-DISASTER SCHEDULING OF ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION NETWORKSRan Wei, Arindam Das, Daniel Kirschen, Payman Arabshahi Adviser: Payman Arabshahi Sponsored by: National Science Foundation
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31NAJulie Chen, Tommy Nguyen, Enrique Garcia, Victor Marcenac, Kai-Mei Fu, Max Parsons Adviser: Max Parsons Sponsored by: NIST, Sandia National Laboratories
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32NABooker Hu, Aarjav Jain, Arturo Lopez, Kevin Wu, Ohik Kwon, Robert Thomas Adviser: Max Parsons Sponsored by: QuantumX, NIST
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41NAUthkarsh Keshav Adya, Rui Chen, I-Tung Chen, Sanskriti Joshi, Arka Majumdar, Mo Li and Sajjad Moazeni Adviser: Sajjad Moazeni
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Check out past showcase research projects below!
Research Showcase 2024
View photos from the event!
Congratulations to our 2024 Research Showcase winners!
Best Foundational Research
Students (listed alphabetically): Jason Isa, Bohan Wu and Qirui Wu
The team won three Apple iPads for their research on “Effect of Adaptation Rate and Cost Display in a Human-AI Interaction Game.”
Best Applied Research
Students (listed alphabetically): Gokul Nathan
Nathan’s team won a Boeing tour for their research on “Developing and Enveloping and Testing GPS Enabled Inertial Reference Navigation System for Next Generation Flight Computers.”
Best Overall Research
Students (listed alphabetically): Misael Lopez Granados and Raahul Potluri
The pair won a UW ECE Cash Prize for their research on “FlexFPGA: A Case for Multi-Tenant Disaggregated Cloud FPGA Architectures.”
Research Showcase 2023
Not displaying properly? Click here to download a PDF of this year’s projects.
View photos from the event!
Congratulations to our 2023 Research Showcase winners!
Best Foundational Research
Students (listed alphabetically): Kai Luo, Rodriguez Pham, Joaquin Santecchia and Alex Sklar
The team won Amazon Frames for their research on “Evaluation of Indoor Localization Methodologies: A Comparative Study of Trilateration, LSTM, and Random Forest Regression.“
Best Applied Research
Students (listed alphabetically): Alvin Cao and Ken Christofferson
The team won a Boeing tour for their research on “EarSteth: Phonocardiogram Reconstruction using Earbuds.“
Best Overall Research
Students (listed alphabetically): Liban Hussein and Marziyeh Rezaei
The pair won a UW ECE Cash Prize for their research on “Secure FMCW LiDAR Systems with Frequency Encryption — EMiT Lab.“
Research Showcase 2022 - virtual poster exhibit
Watch the video recording here!
*Awards were presented to the top two research projects at the end of the event, as determined by a select group of ECE faculty judges. This year’s prizes included a Department-sponsored cash grant to be used toward any research-related travel, and Amazon’s first household robot – the Amazon Astro, kindly sponsored by Amazon’s Lab126! Learn more about the technologies and engineering behind the Astro robot here.
Congratulations to our 2022 Research Showcase winners, Maneeshika Madduri and Luocheng Huang!!
Travel Grant Winner for Best Foundations Theory Research
A Game-Theoretic Model for Co-adaptive Brain Machine Interfaces (poster #8) | Maneeshika Madduri
Amazon Astro Robot Winner for Best Applied Research
Broadband Imaging with Metasurfaces (poster #27) | Luocheng Huang
Luocheng Huang with his Amazon Astro robot prize. photo by Ryan Hoover
2022 RESEARCH PROJECTS
21. Secure Frequency Encryption FMCW LiDAR SystemMarziyeh Rezaei, Liban Hussein
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22. OpenLabCluster: Semi-automatic Keypoints Based Animal Behavior Clustering and ClassificationJingyuan Li, Moishe Keselman
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23. How Does it Sound? Generation of Rhythmic Soundtrack for Human MovementsKun Su, Xiulong Liu
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24. Programmable black phosphorus image sensor for broadband optoelectronic edge computingSeokhyeong Lee, Ruoming Peng, Changming Wu
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25. O-pH: Optical pH Monitor to Measure Dental Biofilm Acidity and Assist in Enamel Health MonitoringManuja Sharma, Lauren K. Lee, Matthew D. Carson, David S. Park, Se W. An, Micah G. Bovenkamp, Jess J. Cayetano, Ian A. Berude
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26. Analyzing neural flow using signal processing on graphsFelix Schwock
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27. Broadband Imaging with MetasurfacesLuocheng Huang
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28. Should Storage-Centric Tariffs be Extended to Commercial Flexible Demand?Lane Smith |
We would like to congratulate the students and their advisers on developing these excellent projects that are here on display, and thank you for sharing your research with us. Thank you to our industry friends for your valuable partnership and we look forward to seeing our relationship continue to grow!
Research Showcase 2021 - virtual poster exhibit
Check out last year’s student research project posters below!
Open the PDF and click on an individual project to view full-sized poster.
Research Day 2020 - virtual poster exhibit
Click here to check out or download the interactive poster program PDF below. To view individual research projects in more detail, browse through the program and click on a project page of interest to open that group’s full research poster in a new browser.
