Gaetano Borriello
Professor Gaetano Borriello holds the Jerre D. Noe Professorship of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. He joined the Department in 1988 having earned a Ph.D. in CS at the University of California at Berkeley (1988), an M.S. in EE at Stanford University (1981), and a B.S. in EE from the Polytechnic Institute of New York, now NYU-Poly (1979). He was a member of the research staff at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center from 1980-85. From 2001-2003, he was on leave from UW to found Intel Research Seattle, which quickly became one of the premier research labs working in the area of ubiquitous computing. He is a Fellow of the ACM and IEEE, a Fulbright Scholar, a recipient of the UW Distinguished Teaching award, and a Distinguished Alumni of the CS Division at the University of California at Berkeley. He has been on sabbatical leaves at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy (1995-1996), and Google-Seattle (2008-2009).
Although he began is career as an integrated circuit designer -- he was part of the team that designed the first single-chip integrated Ethernet controller -- he is known primarily for his work in ubiquitous computing, sensor networks, and embedded systems. More recently, his focus has been on applying mobile technologies in resource-constrained environments and the field of information and communication technologies for development (ICTD). The open-source mobile data collection tools, Open Data Kit, developed by his research group are in use in dozens of countries in programs ranging from public health and documentation of human rights violations to forest and environmental monitoring.
Teaching
- Most recent class: CSE481K – Designing Technology for Resource-Constrained Environments (past classes)
- Research seminars: CSE590F – Computing and the Developing World (ICTD)
- My textbook (with R. Katz of UCB), Contemporary Logic Design – 2ed. (see its resource page)
- Videos of our CompE classes (RFID apps – Sp’04, Multi-player games – Wi’07, complete list)
Research Interests
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Location-aware computing
- Sensor-based activity inferencing
- Tangible user interfaces
- Multi-modal user interfaces
- Mobile computing
- Sensor Systems
- Radio-frequency identification tags
- Sensor networks and infrastructure for sensors
- Automatic device association
- Embedded Systems
- Design and implementation of novel devices
- Tools for embedded system design
Service

Contact Information:
Office: CSE 572
Laboratory: ICTD Lab
CSE 603 and 606
Email:
gaetano
cse.uw.edu
Phone:
+1-206-685-9432
Program Manager:
Julie Svendsen
CSE 532
julies
cse.uw.edu
+1-206-616.7597
Mail Address:
Department of CS&E
University of Washington
Box 352350
Seattle, WA 98195-2350
Courier Address:
101 Paul G. Allen Center
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