Shwetak Patel
Shwetak Naran Patel (born December 9, 1981 in Selma , Alabama ) is an American computer scientist.
Patel grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and studied computer science at the Georgia Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in 2003 and a doctorate with Gregory Abowd in 2008. In the same year he became Assistant Professor, 2013 Associate Professor and 2014 Washington Research Foundation Endowed Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle.
He is known for easy-to-use innovative sensor systems, human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing . Its sensor systems concern, for example, energy (electrical circuits in the household) and water and mobile health monitoring.
He was the founder of Zensi's home energy monitoring company, which Belkin acquired in 2010. He is a co-founder of the wireless sensor platform company SNUPI Technologies and WallyHome, consumer sensor monitoring, which was acquired by Sears in 2015.
Its camera blocking technology was named Top Technology of the Year by the New York Times in 2005.
In 2011 he became a MacArthur Fellow , was named Newsmaker of the Year for the Seattle Business Journal and was a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow and a 2012 Sloan Research Fellow. He received a Career Award from the National Science Foundation and the World Economic Forum Young Global Scientist Award in 2013. In 2009 he received a TR 35 from Technology Review and he was Seattle Business Magazine's Innovator of the Year. In 2016 he received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and in 2018 he received the ACM Prize in Computing . He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
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- with G. Cohn, D. Morris, DS Tan: Your Noise is My Command: Sensing Gestures Using the Body as an Antenna, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2011).
- with S. Gupta, MS Reynolds :. ElectriSense: Single-Point Sensing Using EMI for Electrical Event Detection and Classification in the Home, Ubicomp 2010.
- with J. Froehlich u. a .: HydroSense: Infrastructure-Mediated Single-Point Sensing of Whole-Home Water Activity, UbiComp 2009.
- with G. Cohn u. a .: SNUPI: Sensor Nodes Utilizing Powerline Infrastructure, Ubicomp 2010.
- with S. Gupta, M. Reynolds: The Design and Evaluation of an End-User-Deployable, Whole House, Contactless Power Consumption Sensor, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2010).
- with GD Abowd u. a .: At the Flick of a Switch: Detecting and Classifying Unique Electrical Events on the Residential Power Line. Ubicomp 2007.
- with GD Abowd u. a .: Than You May Think: An Empirical Investigation of the Proximity of Users to their Mobile Phones, Ubicomp 2006.
- with J. Pierce, GD Abowd: A Gesture-based Authentication Scheme for Untrusted Public Terminals. In the Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2004).
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Patel, Shwetak |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Patel, Shwetak Naran |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 9, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Selma, Alabama |