Shwetak N. Patel

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/shwetak
shwetak [at] cs.washington.edu
Faculty
Computer Science & Engineering, Electrical Engineering

Shwetak N. Patel is an Assistant Professor in the departments of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering. His 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 location and activity recognition applications. He is also interested in exploring novel interaction techniques for mobile devices, mobile sensing systems, and wireless power technologies. Shwetak's most recent research has been in building a new class of low-cost and easy-to-deploy sensing systems for the home to enable in-situ human-centered research, called Infrastructure Mediated Sensing, which leverages existing utility infrastructures in a home to support whole house sensing.

Shwetak received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008 and B.S. in Computer Science in 2003. He was also the Assistant Director of the Aware Home Research Initiative at Georgia Tech.