2023's highly cited researchers
Congrats to College of Engineering faculty and researchers who've been named to Clarivate's Highly Cited Researchers list for 2023. 12/11/2023
(CSE) Yejin Choi named to TIME100 AI list
Yejin Choi named to TIME100 AI list. The Allen School professor is one of two UW professors on the list, which highlights individuals who are advancing conversations about how AI is reshaping the world. 09/26/2023
Dieter Fox (CSE)
Professor Dieter Fox receives IJCAI 2023 John McCarthy Award for pioneering work in building intelligent systems. 08/22/2023
Yulia Tsvetkov (CSE)
Yulia Tsvetkov and collaborators win 2023 Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year for novel approach to revealing biases in Wikipedia biographies. 08/21/2023
Paul Beame, Paris Koutris and Dan Suciu (CSE)
Allen School team earns ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award for helping scientists better understand complexity behind parallel database query processing. 07/20/23
Ruikang Wang (BioE)
Congrats to Ruikang Wang, professor of bioengineering and ophthalmology, on being named the 2023 UW Medicine Inventor of the Year. 09/08/2023
Ji-Eun Kim (ISE)
Assistant Professor Ji-Eun Kim (ISE) has been awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for her innovative research on vigilance decrement in clinical environments, a critical issue with far-reaching implications for healthcare quality and patient safety. 08/22/2023
Washington State Academy of Sciences
Engineering faculty members Corie Cobb, Mehran Mesbahi and Yinhai Wang are among the eight UW researchers recently elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences. 07/25/2023
UW ‘Brainworks’ wins Northwest Emmy Award
Eric Chudler, bioengineering faculty member and executive director of the UW Center for Neurotechnology, and Cara Podenski, managing executive producer for UW Video, produced the episode. 07/05/2023
Shuai Huang (ISE)
ISE associate professor Shuai Huang honored with two DAIS Awards for advancing healthcare data analytics and educational excellence. 05/24/2023
Thomas Rothvoss (CSE)
Professor Thomas Rothvoss wins 2023 Gödel Prize for proving the exponential complexity of a core problem in combinatorial optimization. 05/23/2023
Faisal Hossain (CEE)
From helping to conserve water to reducing food insecurity in numerous countries around the world, a steady stream of accomplishments have led to Professor Faisal Hossain being named the inaugural recipient of the 2023 UW Excellence in Global Engagement Award. 05/11/2023
Franziska Roesner and Tadayoshi Kohno (CSE)
Allen School team earns NSDI Test of Time Award for research into how third-party trackers “badger” people online. 05/04/2023
Su-In Lee and Sara Mostafavi (CSE)
Professors Su-In Lee and Sara Mostafavi awarded CZI Data Insights grants to advance explainable AI for biomedical research. 04/25/2023
Yinhai Wang (CEE)
Professor Yinhai Wang is the recipient of two honors from ASCE. In addition to being honored with the 2023 Francis Turner Award, Wang was elevated to the title of Distinguished Member, Class of 2023. 04/04/2023
Dayong Gao (ME)
Dayong Gao, the Origincell Endowed Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Center for Cryo-Biomedical Engineering and Artificial Organs at the UW, was announced as the president of the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER) in March 2023. Gao will serve as president of the society from 2023 to 2026. 03/27/2023
Juan Carlos Idrobo (MSE)
Associate Professor Juan Carlos Idrobo has been named a fellow of the Microscopy Society of America (MSA). This honor recognizes researchers who have made significant contributions to the advancement of the field of microscopy and microanalysis. 03/24/2023
Georg Seelig (CSE)
Professor Georg Seelig was hailed as the “DNA Computer Scientist of the Year” by the International Society for Nanoscale Science, Computation and Engineering (ISNSCE), who named him the winner of the 2023 Rozenberg Tulip Award in recognition of his leadership and original contributions that have advanced the field of DNA computing. 03/21/2023
Michelle DiBenedetto (ME)
ME Assistant Professor Michelle DiBenedetto received the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award in January 2023. 03/09/2023
Leilani Battle (CSE)
The assistant professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering has been awarded a research fellowship by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. 02/21/2023
Behçet Açıkmeşe (A&A)
Professor Behçet Açıkmeşe was elected to American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Fellow. 02/16/2023
Pedro Arduino (CEE)
CEE Professor Pedro Arduino is the recipient of the 2023 Academic Engineer of the Year Award by the Puget Sound Engineering Council (PSEC). The honor recognizes Arduino’s career as a geotechnical engineering educator as well as his contributions to advanced modeling techniques that enable the study of soil behavior. 02/14/2023
Yinhai Wang (CEE)
CEE Professor Yinhai Wang has been elevated to the status of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow. Effective January 2023, the honor recognizes Wang’s contributions to traffic sensing, transportation data science, and smart infrastructure systems. 01/31/2023
Luis Ceze (CSE)
Luis Ceze was named Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. The Allen School professor received the honor for his contributions to developing new architectures and programming systems for emerging applications and computing technologies. 01/19/2023