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Shwetak Patel

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My research is focused on novel signals for health sensing and diagnosis.

Awards

  • MacArthur Fellow, ACM Prize in Computing, NSF PECASE, ACM Fellow, MIT TR-35

Relevant Publications

  • Edward Jay Wang, William Li, Doug Hawkins, Terry Gernsheimer, Colette Norby-Slycord, and Shwetak N. Patel. 2016. HemaApp: noninvasive blood screening of hemoglobin using smartphone cameras. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 593-604. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2971648.2971653

Institution

University of Washington

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Computer Science

Education

  • PhD Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology

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United States

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