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w Professor Shwetak Patel Wins Macarthur Foundation 'genius' Award
University of Washington Assistant Professor Shwetak Patel is one of 22 2011 MacArthur Fellows.
Courtesy the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Shwetak Patel, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, has been named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow — colloquially known as the MacArthur "Genius" Award.
Each year, the MacArthur Fellows Program awards unrestricted fellowships of $500,000 to roughly twenty "talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction. There are three criteria for selection of Fellows: exceptional creativity, promise for important future advances based on a track record of significant accomplishment, and potential for the fellowship to facilitate subsequent creative work."
Shwetak's research interests are in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, and User Interface Software and Technology. He is particularly interested in developing easy-to-deploy sensing technologies and approaches for activity recognition and energy monitoring applications. He is a founder of Zensi Inc., a demand side energy monitoring solutions provider, which was acquired by Belkin Inc. in 2010.
Patel, 29, received a B.S. (2003) and a Ph.D. (2008) from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Since 2008, he has been an assistant professor at the University of Washington.
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