NSF CAREER Award for Varun Jog will push information theory to new realms
Recipient of a 2020 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Varun Jog hopes to use the five-year grant to help connect information theory with other topics in mathematics.
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ECE team wins Foxconn Smart Cities-Smart Futures competition
The project, called ReadyVue: Energy Efficient Smart Glasses for Healthcare Applications, won the smart healthcare category of the Foxconn Smart Cities-Smart Futures competition in December 2019.
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UW Women at 150: Computer scientist Thelma Estrin
One of the first people to apply computers in medicine was a University of Wisconsin computer engineering alumna who was born nearly a century ago in 1924.
Thelma Estrin was an early pioneer of the field of medical informatics — the now commonplace practice of applying computers to medical research and treatment. She also was something of a trailblazer for women hoping to pursue careers in the sciences.
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ECE graduate student Aaron Day wins IEEE student paper contest
Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD student Aaron Day won the student paper contest at the IEEE Radio & Wireless Week Conference. The paper, entitled “Millimeter-wave thickness-deviation measurement system,” was chosen as one of 19 finalists.
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