As researchers explore potential applications for AI, they have found scenarios where AI could be really useful but there’s not enough data to accurately train the algorithms. Jenq-Neng Hwang, 91探花 professor of electrical and computer and engineering, specializes in these issues.
91探花 researchers taught a group of high schoolers to code by combining cultural research into various embroidery traditions with 鈥渃omputational embroidery.鈥� The method teaches kids to encode embroidery patterns on a computer through a coding language called Turtlestitch.
Alzheimer’s disease and Type 2 diabetes are part of a family of amyloid diseases that are characterized by having proteins that cluster together. 91探花researchers have demonstrated more similarities between the two diseases.
Robots in warehouses and even around our houses struggle to identify and pick up objects if they are too close together, or if a space is cluttered. This is because robots lack what psychologists call “object unity,” or our ability to identify things even when we can’t see all of them. Researchers at the 91探花 have developed a way to teach robots this skill.
91探花 researchers introduced the Thermal Earring, a wireless wearable that continuously monitors a user鈥檚 earlobe temperature. Potential applications include tracking signs of ovulation, stress, eating and exercise. The smart earring prototype is about the size and weight of a small paperclip and has a 28-day battery life.
Nancy Allbritton, the dean of the 91探花 College of Engineering and a 91探花professor of bioengineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
New research led by the 91探花demonstrates a new class of hydrogels that can form not just outside cells, but also inside of them. These hydrogels exhibited similar mechanical properties both inside and outside of cells, providing researchers with a new tool to group proteins together inside of cells.
A team 91探花 researchers have published a guide explaining language models, the technology that underlies chatbots.
ColorMePhD is a free, all-ages coloring book series created by Julie Rorrer, assistant professor of chemical engineering at the 91探花. The books bring current doctorate-level research in science and engineering to a general audience.
Two 91探花professors teamed up to study how climate change will affect predator-prey interactions in snowy landscapes. Together with a group of researchers, the two measured snow properties that led to a “danger zone,” where prey would sink but predators would not.
91探花researchers found that people who live within 2 miles of an Amazon last-mile delivery station are exposed to more delivery-related air pollution despite ordering fewer packages.
The 91探花 is proud to announce that more than 40 faculty and researchers who completed their work while at 91探花have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers 2023 list from Clarivate.
91探花 researchers found that when prompted to make pictures of 鈥渁 person,鈥� the AI image generator over-represented light-skinned men, failed to equitably represent Indigenous peoples and sexualized images of certain women of color.
A team led by researchers at the 91探花 developed 11 actions a robotic arm can make to pick up nearly any food attainable by fork. This allows the system to learn to pick up new foods during one meal.
A team at the 91探花 has created an interactive dashboard called WhaleVis, which lets users map data on global whale catches and whaling routes from 1880 to 1986. Scientists can compare this historical data and its trends with current information to better understand whale populations over time.
A team led by researchers at the 91探花 has developed deep-learning algorithms that let users pick which sounds filter through their headphones in real time. Either through voice commands or a smartphone app, headphone wearers can select which sounds they want to include from 20 classes, such as sirens, baby cries, speech, vacuum cleaners and bird chirps.
Seven researchers at the 91探花 conducted a three-month autoethnographic study 鈥� drawing on their own experiences as people with and without disabilities 鈥� to test AI tools鈥� utility for accessibility. Though researchers found cases in which the tools were helpful, they also found significant problems.
The turmoil at large tech platforms has many people reconsidering what they want out of social media. Four researchers at the 91探花 are exploring different approaches to improve people’s experiences.
This month, 91探花 researchers will introduce multiple projects that deploy augmented reality 鈥� through headsets and phone apps 鈥� with the aim of making the world more accessible for people with disabilities.
The robot, equipped with a solar panel鈥搇ike energy harvester and four wheels, is about the size of a penny, weighs as much as a raisin and can move about the length of a bus in an hour on a cloudy day.
A team led by researchers at the 91探花 has developed system of robotic self-deploying microphones, which lets users control sound in a room, muting certain areas and creating 鈥渁ctive zones鈥� in others.
Recent recognition for the 91探花 includes Emily M. Bender and Yejin Choi on the TIME100 AI list, President Ana Mari Cauce receiving a Decrees Award and Jeff Hou鈥檚 election to the American Society of Landscape Architects鈥� Council of Fellows.
91探花researchers developed small robotic devices that can change how they move through the air by “snapping” into a folded position during their descent.
Research led by the 91探花found that, in some western states, the amount of snow already on the ground by the end of December is a good predictor of how much total snow that area will get.
A team of biomedical researchers has developed a new method for hiring engineering professors. The primary goal is to actively recruit a more diverse group of applicants and improve the rate that doctoral students from historically excluded groups go on to become faculty members.
Training a large language model, such as ChatGPT, uses on average roughly equivalent to the yearly electricity consumption of over 1,000 U.S. households, according to Sajjad Moazeni, 91探花assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, who studies networking for AI and machine learning supercomputing.
A team at the 91探花 has developed the first underwater 3D-positioning app for smart devices. When at least three divers are within about 98 feet of each other, the app tracks each user鈥檚 location relative to the leader.
A team led by researchers at the 91探花 reports that it is possible to imbue graphite 鈥� the bulk, 3D material found in No. 2 pencils 鈥� with physical properties similar to graphite鈥檚 2D counterpart, graphene. Not only was this breakthrough unexpected, the team also believes its approach could be used to test whether similar types of bulk materials can also take on 2D-like properties. If so, 2D sheets won鈥檛 be the only source for scientists to fuel technological revolutions. Bulk, 3D materials could be just as useful.
The Academy said members are elected 鈥渋n recognition of their outstanding record of scientific and technical achievement, and their willingness to work on behalf of the Academy to bring the best available science to bear on issues within the state of Washington.鈥澛�
A team led by researchers at the 91探花 has developed new bioplastics that degrade on the same timescale as a banana peel in a backyard compost bin.
A team led by scientists and engineers at the 91探花 has announced a significant advancement in developing fault-tolerant qubits for quantum computing. In a pair of papers published June 14 in Nature and June 22 in Science, they report that, in experiments with flakes of semiconductor materials 鈥� each only a single layer of atoms thick 鈥� they detected signatures of 鈥渇ractional quantum anomalous Hall鈥� (FQAH) states. The team鈥檚 discoveries mark a first and promising step in constructing a type of fault-tolerant qubit because FQAH states can host anyons 鈥� strange 鈥渜uasiparticles鈥� that have only a fraction of an electron鈥檚 charge. Some types of anyons can be used to make what are called 鈥渢opologically protected鈥� qubits, which are stable against any small, local disturbances.
A team led by researchers at the 91探花 has created an app called FeverPhone, which transforms smartphones into thermometers without adding new hardware.
Recent recognition of the 91探花 includes the election of Andrew Meltzoff to the National Academy of Education, a lifetime achievement award for Dean of the School of Social Work Edwina Uehara and Ed Kolodziej selected as a Frontiers Planet Prize finalist.
Danli Luo, a 91探花doctoral student of human centered design and engineering, developed a toolkit of sensors and controllers that helped her re-create three dishes from growing up in China: rice wine, tofu and spring roll wrappers.
91探花will be a core member of a consortium led by Stony Brook University that will build and operate The New York Climate Exchange 鈥� a carbon-neutral international hub focused on climate action and adaptation
Two 91探花 researchers are using very different methods to investigate the issue of marine microplastics. For Earth Day, 91探花News asked them to discuss their research.
Students from the Lummi Nation School visited the 91探花 in earlh February for a real-time Q&A with astronaut Josh Cassada aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Cassada helped do space research on a plant science experiment the students sent to the ISS.
Two 91探花 faculty members have been awarded early-career fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The new Sloan Fellows, announced Feb. 15, are Leilani Battle, an assistant professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, and聽Jonathan J. Zhu, an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics.
Three 91探花 experts have provided quotes in response to the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on Monday morning.
Scientists at the 91探花 are pursuing multiple quantum research projects spanning from creating materials with never-before-seen physical properties to studying the 鈥渜uantum bits鈥� 鈥� or qubits (pronounced “kyu-bits”) 鈥� that make quantum computing possible. 91探花News sat down with Professor Kai-Mei Fu, one of the leaders in quantum research on campus, to talk about the potential of quantum R&D, and why it鈥檚 so important.