Shwetak Patel

About

Shwetak Patel is the Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Endowed Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, where he directs the Ubicomp Lab. Concurrently, he is a Distinguished Scientist and head of Health Technologies at Google. Patel’s research is in the areas of human-computer interaction, ubiquitous computing, and sensor- enabled embedded systems, with a particular emphasis on the application of computing to health, sustainability, and interaction. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech in 2008. Patel is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Sloan Fellowship, Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship, MIT TR-35 Award, World Economic Forum Young Global Scientist Award, NSF Career Award, PECASE award, and the ACM Prize in Computing. He is also an ACM Fellow. He was a co-founder of a home energy monitoring company called Zensi (acquired by Belkin in 2010), a low-power home wireless sensing company called SNUPI Technologies (acquired by Sears in 2015), and a mobile health company called Senosis Health (acquired by Google in 2017).

Publications

Detecting Human Movement by Differential Air Pressure Sensing in HVAC System Ductwork: An Exploration in Infrastructure Mediated Sensing

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

2008

Implementing technology-based embedded assessment in the home and community life of individuals aging with disabilities: a participatory research and development study

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology

2013

Feasibility testing of a home‐based sensor system to monitor mobility and daily activities in Korean American older adults

International Journal of Older People Nursing

2016

Session details: Dimensions of sensory interaction

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

2012

DICTrank Is a Reliable Dataset for Cardiotoxicity Prediction Using Machine Learning Methods

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Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

Ph.D, Computer Science / 2008

Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Links & Social Media

Personal Web Site

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