The UW broke ground on the new $102 million Interdisciplinary Engineering Building, supported by public and private investments. Pictured above: UW President Ana Mari Cauce (center left) and UW College of Engineering Dean Nancy Allbritton (center right) with engineering students Liban Hussein (l) and Aisha Cora (r).
The Allen School professor uses natural language processing to develop AI systems that have the ability to reason and can understand the implied meanings in human language.
UW and UC San Diego researchers have shown that smartphones are capable of detecting blood oxygen saturation levels down to 70% — the lowest value that pulse oximeters should be able to measure.
The Washington Research Professor of Bioengineering will serve as the Director of the Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institute beginning in July 2023.