Professor
Gaetano Borriello holds the Jerre D. Noe Chair of Computer Science & Engineering at the
University of Washington. He joined
the Department in 1988 and holds a PhD in CS from the University of California
at Berkeley (1988) and an MS in EE from Stanford University (1981). He was a
member of the research staff at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center from
1980-87. From 2001-2003, he was on
leave from UW to found the Intel Research laboratory in Seattle which quickly
became one of the premier research labs for work in
ubiquitous computing.
Prof.
Borriello’s career began in the areas of
integrated circuits for networking, automatic synthesis of digital circuits,
reconfigurable hardware, and embedded systems development tools. In 1999, he was PI for the Portolano Expedition, a
DARPA-sponsored investigation on invisible computing that led to the creation
of Labscape, a smart environment to record and assist
the work of researchers in cell biology laboratories. In 2001, as director of Intel Research
Seattle, he set in motion projects in elder care (sensor-rich homes and wearable
devices) to help elders stay in their own homes longer, and in location-aware
computing (the PlaceLab project) using Wi-Fi to enhance
indoor location sensing that is now the dominant approach in use by Apple,
Google, Microsoft, and many others.
More
recently, Prof. Borriello is directing efforts in applying mobile technologies
to the problems of public health and development in low-resource settings. His group's open-source mobile data
collection tools, Open Data Kit, are in use on six continents in programs
ranging across public health, documentation of human rights violations, and
environmental monitoring.
He
is a Fellow of the ACM and IEEE, a Fulbright Scholar, and a recipient of the UW
Distinguished Teaching award. In his spare time, he collects islands by walking
around and/or across them.