Joshua R. Smith

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Joshua R. Smith is an American computer scientist and electrical engineer and a professor at the University of Washington. He is known for research on wireless power (including WREL [1] ), backscatter communication (including WISP [2] and Ambient Backscatter [3] [4] ), and robotic manipulation.

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Education and academic career

He received a PhD degree from MIT in 1999, SM from MIT in 1995, MA from Cambridge University in Physics in 1997, and a dual BA in Computer Science and Philosophy from Williams College in 1991. [5] He was at Intel Labs Seattle from 2004 to 2010, and joined the faculty of the University of Washington (UW) in 2011. [6] He is the Milton and Delia Zeutschel Professor in Entrepreneurial Excellence at the University of Washington [6] and leads the UW Sensor Systems Lab [7] and is the founding director of the UW-Amazon Science Hub. [8] [9]

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, [10] recognized for "contributions to far‐ and near‐field wireless power, backscatter communication, and electric field sensing"; [11] a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors; [12] [13] and a 2013 Allen Distinguished Investigator. [14]

Entrepreneurship and commercial applications

Several startup companies are commercializing technology from his lab, under license from the University of Washington: Wibotic, [10] [15] [16] Proprio, [10] [17] Waveworks [18] (formerly Jeeva, [10] ) and Corisma. [13] His PhD research at MIT was commercialized to make a smart airbag system. [13]

References

  1. ↑ Markoff, John (2008-08-21). "Intel pursues technology for recharging without wires" . The New York Times . ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  2. ↑ Lohr, Steve (January 30, 2010). "Smart Dust? Not Quite, but We're Getting There" . The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  3. ↑ Mims, Christopher (November 8, 2018). "Here Comes 'Smart Dust,' the Tiny Computers That Pull Power from the Air" . The Wall Street Journal . ISSN   0099-9660 . Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  4. ↑ Mims, Christopher (October 3, 2020). "Battery-Free, Energy-Harvesting Perpetual Machines: The Weird Future of Computing" . Wall Street Journal. ISSN   0099-9660 . Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  5. ↑ "Joshua R. Smith, PhD". sensor.cs.washington.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-14.
  6. 1 2 "Professor Joshua R. Smith Honored as IEEE Fellow". University of Washington Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. December 13, 2019.
  7. ↑ "Sensor Systems Lab Research". sensor.cs.washington.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-14.
  8. ↑ "New 'Science Hub' to launch at Univ. of Washington with $1.9M from Amazon". GeekWire. February 9, 2022. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  9. ↑ "New UW-Amazon Science Hub launches". Amazon Science. 2022-02-09. Retrieved 2022-05-14.
  10. 1 2 3 4 "IEEE Fellows Directory: Joshua Smith". IEEE . Retrieved 2022-05-14.
  11. ↑ "Allen School News » Allen School faculty and alumni honored by ACM and IEEE for advancing the field of computing through research and service" . Retrieved 2022-05-14.
  12. ↑ "Congratulations 2021 Class of Fellows" (PDF). National Academy of Inventors. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-12-07. Retrieved 2022-05-14.
  13. 1 2 3 "UW professor Joshua R. Smith elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors for his innovations in wireless power, communication, sensing and robotics" . Retrieved 2022-05-14.
  14. ↑ "Allen Distinguished Investigators". Allen Institute. Archived from the original on 2022-05-18. Retrieved 2022-05-14.
  15. ↑ "Coiled and ready to strike". The Economist . ISSN   0013-0613 . Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  16. ↑ Long, Katherine Anne (November 22, 2020). "Seattle startup WiBotic joins NASA-funded team to help moon robots survive the long lunar night". The Seattle Times . Retrieved 2022-07-15.
  17. ↑ "PROPRIO, INC. :: Washington (US) :: OpenCorporates". opencorporates.com. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  18. ↑ https://www.waveworks.tech/
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