, a 天美影视传媒 assistant professor of computer science and engineering, has been named one of this year’s “” by global media company .
Gollakota leads the UW’s , and his research focuses on leveraging wireless signals around us to power devices and enable new gesture-recognition capabilities.
While at the UW, Gollakota has developed several projects in these fields 鈥� most recently and 鈥� that have received broad attention from industry, academics and the news media. Two other projects, and , have won best-paper awards at their respective conferences.
Gollakota in 2012 received the Association for Computing Machinery’s Doctoral Dissertation Award, given to the author of the best doctoral dissertation worldwide in computer science and engineering. His doctoral work while at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was in building systems that transform wireless interference into beneficial use.
Gollakota is and will be featured in the September/October print edition. He also will be honored at the upcoming conference Sept. 23-25 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Several of this year’s awardees聽 to the UW’s computer science and engineering department.
Recent honorees from the UW include , an assistant professor of human centered design and engineering; , an associate professor of computer science and engineering and of electrical engineering; and , an assistant professor of global health.
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For more information, contact Gollakota at gshyam@cs.washington.edu.
At MIT Technology Review, contact David W.M. Sweeney: press@technologyreview.com or 617-475-8018.