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Portrait of Shwetak Patel

Shwetak Patel

Professor

Associate Director of Development & Entrepreneurship

Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Endowed Professor

Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (joint appointment)

Focus Area: Artificial Intelligence, Computing + Biology, Human-Centered Computing, Interaction with the Physical World

Expertise: Human-Computer Interaction; Machine Learning; Ubiquitous Computing, Sensing & Embedded Systems

Email: shwetak@cs.washington.edu

Faculty Webpage

Ubicomp Lab

Clean Energy Institute

Institute for Medical Data Science

UW Center for Digital Fabrication (DFab)

Biography:

Shwetak N. Patel is the Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Endowed Professor in Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, where he directs the Ubicomp Lab. His 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 and sustainability. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech in 2008, where he was an NSF Graduate Fellow.

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, the Presidential PECASE award, and the ACM Prize in Computing Award. He is also an ACM Fellow. He was a co-founder of an 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).