Shwetak Patel
{{Short description|American computer scientist and entrepreneur}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Shwetak Naran Patel
| image = ShwetakPatel.jpg
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| caption = Shwetak N. Patel in the Ubicomp Lab at the University of Washington
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1981|12|9}}
| birth_place = Selma, Alabama, United States
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| field = Human-Computer Interaction,
Ubiquitous Computing,
Embedded Systems
| work_institution = University of Washington,
Computer Science & Engineering,
Electrical Engineering
| alma_mater = Georgia Institute of Technology
| doctoral_advisor = Gregory Abowd
| doctoral_students =
| known_for = Sensing, sustainability, ubiquitous computing, energy sensing
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| prizes = MacArthur Fellowship, ACM Prize in Computing, TR35, Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship, Sloan Fellowship, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, ACM Fellow
| spouse = Julie A. Kientz
| footnotes =
}}
Shwetak Naran Patel is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known for his work on developing novel sensing solutions and ubiquitous computing. He is the Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Endowed Professor at the University of Washington in Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering, where he joined in 2008. His technology start-up company on energy sensing, Zensi, was acquired by Belkin International, Inc. in 2010. He was named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow.{{cite web|title=MacArthur Fellows Program: Meet the 2011 Fellows|url=http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.7728991/k.12E8/Meet_the_2011_Fellows.htm|work=September 20, 2011|publisher=John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation|access-date=20 September 2011}} In 2016, He was elected as an ACM Fellow for contributions to sustainability sensing, low-power wireless sensing and mobile health and received Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). He was named the recipient of the 2018 ACM Prize in Computing for contributions to creative and practical sensing systems for sustainability and health.{{Cite web|url=https://awards.acm.org/about/2018-acm-prize|title=Shwetak N. Patel to receive 2018 ACM Prize in Computing|website=awards.acm.org|language=en|access-date=2019-04-03}}
Early life and career
Shwetak Patel was born on December 9, 1981, in Selma, Alabama into a Gujarati family. he was raised in Birmingham, Alabama. He attended Jefferson County International Baccalaureate School for high school in Birmingham, graduating in 2000. He received his B.S. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2003, and then continued on to receive his Ph.D. in computer science in 2008 under the advisement of Dr. Gregory Abowd. He started as an assistant professor at the University of Washington in 2008, where he remains today. In July 2013, he was promoted to associate professor, and then in July 2014 was named the Washington Research Foundation Endowed Professor.
Professional career
Patel's research is broadly in the areas of ubiquitous computing, human-computer interaction, and user interface software and technology. He has published over 50 articles since 2003 and has received numerous best paper awards.{{cite web|last=Patel|first=Shwetak|title=Shwetak Patel Curriculum Vitae|url=http://abstract.cs.washington.edu/~shwetak/resume/patel-cv.pdf|access-date=31 May 2012}} Patel focuses on developing easy-to-deploy sensing technologies, activity recognition, and applications for energy monitoring. He also has developed novel interaction techniques for mobile devices, mobile sensing systems, and wireless sensor platforms, many of which in collaboration with Microsoft Research, where is also a visiting researcher.{{cite news|last=Eisenberg|first=Anne|title=Remote Control, With a Wave of a Hand|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/business/using-gestures-to-control-electronic-devices.html|access-date=31 May 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=12 Sep 2011}} Dr. Patel's primary research has been in building low-cost and easy-to-deploy sensing systems, which he calls Infrastructure Mediated Sensing. These approaches leverage utility infrastructures in a home to support whole-house sensing.
Patel co-founded a company called Zensi, Inc., while he was a graduate student at Georgia Tech. Zensi was a demand-side energy monitoring solutions provider. In 2010, Zensi was acquired by Belkin, Inc in 2010 for an undisclosed sum.{{cite web|last=Belkin, International|title=Belkin Acquires Zensi, Signaling Major Entry into Energy Conservation Market|url=http://www.belkin.com/pressroom/releases/uploads/04_21_10ZensiAcquisition.html|access-date=31 May 2012}} This acquisition resulted in numerous awards for Patel, including making the cover of Seattle Business magazine,{{cite news|last=Simons|first=Wes|title=Top Innovators: University of Washington/Zensi|url=http://www.seattlebusinessmag.com/article/top-innovators-university-washingtonzensi|access-date=31 May 2012|newspaper=Seattle Business Magazine|date=Nov 2010}} newsmaker of the year by TechFlash,{{cite news|last=Cook|first=John|title=And the Flashies go to...|url=http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/12/and-the-flashie-goes-to.html|access-date=31 May 2012|newspaper=TechFlash|date=2 Dec 2010}} and was named one of the top 10 start up stories of 2010 by TechFlash.{{cite news|last=Cook|first=John|title=Top 10 startup stories of 2010|url=http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/12/top-startup-stories-of-2010.html|access-date=31 May 2012|newspaper=TechFlash|date=27 Dec 2010}}
Patel has also received international recognition for his work, including the MacArthur Fellowship in 2011, the MIT Technology Review TR-35 award in 2009,{{cite news|last=Greene|first=Kate|title=TR35: Shwetak Patel, 27|url=http://www.technologyreview.com/TR35/Profile.aspx?Cand=T&TRID=814|access-date=31 May 2012|newspaper=MIT Technology Review|year=2009}} the Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship in 2011,{{cite web|last=Microsoft Research|title=Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows - 2011 Fellows|url=http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/awards/msrff_all.aspx#2011|access-date=31 May 2012}} the 2011 India Abroad Face of the Future award,{{cite web|title=Preet Bharara, the man who makes Wall Street tremble, is India Abroad Person of the Year 2011|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-preet-bharara-is-india-abroad-person-of-the-year-2011/20120630.htm|work=Rediff.com|access-date=19 July 2012}} and the Sloan Fellowship{{cite web|title=2012 Sloan Research Fellows|url=http://www.sloan.org/fellowships/page/21|publisher=The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation|access-date=19 July 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120619231339/http://www.sloan.org/fellowships/page/21|archive-date=19 June 2012}} in 2012. His work was featured in the cover story of Wired Magazine,{{cite news|last=Goetz|first=Thomas|title=Harnessing the Power of Feedback Loops|url=https://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/06/ff_feedbackloop/|access-date=31 May 2012|newspaper=Wired|date=19 June 2011}} and his past work on camera blocking technology was also honored by the New York Times as a top technology of the year in 2005.{{cite news|last=Berzon|first=Alexandra|title=The Anti-Paparazzi Flash|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/magazine/11ideas1-3.html|access-date=31 May 2012|newspaper=The New York Times Magazine|date=11 Dec 2005}} He also has numerous other articles appearing in the popular media on his inventions.{{cite web|title=University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering News|url=http://news.cs.washington.edu/?s=shwetak|access-date=31 May 2012}}
In 2017 he became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.{{citation|title=ACM Recognizes New Fellows|journal=Communications of the ACM|date=March 2017|volume=60|issue=3|page=23|doi=10.1145/3039921|last1=Cacm Staff|s2cid=31701275}}.
Personal life
Patel is married to Julie A. Kientz, who is also a faculty member at the University of Washington, and lives in Seattle, Washington.{{cite web |last1=Garner |first1=Julie |title=Introducing Shwetak Patel |url=https://magazine.washington.edu/feature/introducing-shwetak-patel/ |website=magazine.washington.edu |access-date=October 17, 2021}}
Selected bibliography
- Mariakakis, A., Baudin, J., Whitmire, E., Mehta, V., Banks, M.A., Law, A., Mcgrath, L. and Patel, S.N., 2017. PupilScreen: using smartphones to assess traumatic brain injury. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 1(3), pp. 1–27.
- Wang, E.J., Li, W., Hawkins, D., Gernsheimer, T., Norby-Slycord, C. and Patel, S.N., 2016, September. HemaApp: noninvasive blood screening of hemoglobin using smartphone cameras. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (pp. 593–604).
- De Greef, L., Goel, M., Seo, M.J., Larson, E.C., Stout, J.W., Taylor, J.A. and Patel, S.N., 2014, September. Bilicam: using mobile phones to monitor newborn jaundice. In Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (pp. 331–342).
- Larson, E.C., Goel, M., Boriello, G., Heltshe, S., Rosenfeld, M. and Patel, S.N., 2012, September. SpiroSmart: using a microphone to measure lung function on a mobile phone. In Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on ubiquitous computing (pp. 280–289).
- Cohn, G., Morris, D., Patel, S.N., Tan, D.S. Your Noise is My Command: Sensing Gestures Using the Body as an Antenna. CHI 2011. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2011).
- Gupta, S., Reynolds, M.S., Patel, S.N. ElectriSense: Single-Point Sensing Using EMI for Electrical Event Detection and Classification in the Home. Ubicomp 2010.
- Froehlich, J. Larson, E., Campbell, T., Haggerty, C., Fogarty, J., and Patel, S.N. HydroSense: Infrastructure-Mediated Single-Point Sensing of Whole-Home Water Activity. UbiComp 2009.
- Cohn, G., Stuntebeck, E., Pandey, J., Otis., B., Abowd, G.D., Patel, S.N. SNUPI: Sensor Nodes Utilizing Powerline Infrastructure. Ubicomp 2010.
- Patel, S.N, Gupta, S., Reynolds, M. 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).
- Patel, S.N., Robertson, T., Kientz, J.A., Reynolds, M.S., Abowd, G.D. At the Flick of a Switch: Detecting and Classifying Unique Electrical Events on the Residential Power Line. Ubicomp 2007.
References
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External links
- [http://shwetak.com Patel's personal home page]
- [http://ubicomplab.cs.washington.edu/ University of Washington Ubicomp Computing Research Group]
- [http://www.cs.washington.edu University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering]
- [http://www.ee.washington.edu University of Washington Electrical Engineering]
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Category:People from Selma, Alabama
Category:American computer scientists
Category:Human–computer interaction researchers
Category:University of Washington Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering faculty
Category:Ubiquitous computing researchers
Category:American academics of Indian descent
Category:2016 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Category:American people of Gujarati descent
Category:Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers