Shwetak N. Patel

Shwetak Patel is the Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Endowed Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, where he directs the Ubicomp Lab. Concurrently, he is a Distinguished Scientist and Head of Health Technologies at Google.

Patel’s research is in the areas of human-computer interaction, AI, ubiquitous computing, and sensor systems, with a particular emphasis on the application of computing to health, sustainability, and interaction. Much of his recent research has led to the discovery of novel non-invasive biomarkers for the screening of numerous health condition and diseases with wearables and mobile phones.

Patel is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Sloan Fellowship, MIT TR-35 Award, World Economic Forum Young Global Scientist Award, NSF Career Award, PECASE award, and the ACM Prize in Computing.

He was a co-founder of a home energy monitoring company called Zensi (acquired by Belkin in 2010), a low-power home wireless sensing company called SNUPI Technologies (acquired by Sears in 2015), and a mobile health company called Senosis Health (acquired by Google in 2017).

He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech in 2008.