Shwetak Patel
Professor
Associate Director for Development & Entrepreneurship
Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Professor in Computer Science & Engineering
Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (joint appointment)
Expertise: Human-Computer Interaction; Machine Learning; Ubiquitous Computing, Sensing & Embedded Systems
Shwetak Patel is the Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Endowed Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, where he directs the Ubicomp Lab. Concurrently, he is a Distinguished Scientist and head of Health Technologies at Google. Patel’s research is in the areas of human-computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, and sensor- enabled embedded systems, with a particular emphasis on the application of computing to health, sustainability, and interaction. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech in 2008.
Patel is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Sloan Fellowship, Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship, MIT TR-35 Award, World Economic Forum Young Global Scientist Award, NSF Career Award, PECASE award, and the ACM Prize in Computing. He is also an ACM Fellow. He was a co-founder of a home energy monitoring company called Zensi (acquired by Belkin in 2010), a low-power home wireless sensing company called SNUPI Technologies (acquired by Sears in 2015), and a mobile health company called Senosis Health (acquired by Google in 2017)..