The Washington State Academic RedShirt (STARS) in Engineering Program

Abstract

Eve Riskin received her BS degree in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. and her graduate degrees in EE from Stanford. Since 1990, she has been in the EE Department at the University of Washington where she is now Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change. Her research interests include image compression and image processing, with a focus on developing video compression algorithms to allow for cell-phone transmission of American Sign Language.