Community Engagement

Allen School Alumni

We are proud of our alumni, who are using their Allen School educations to advance our field and solve real-world problems — here in our region and throughout the world.

When our graduates switch their tassels to the other side, that doesn’t mark an ending but a beginning: The beginning of a new journey, one in which they will remain part of our extended Allen School community.

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Stay connected with your Allen School community! Help us keep your information up to date so you don't miss out on alumni events and other opportunities to engage.

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Impact Awards

The Allen School Alumni Impact Awards emphasize to each new generation of graduates that they are joining a community of alumni whose impact reaches far and wide.

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UW Recognition

A succession of our alumni have earned university and college-level accolades for exceptional contributions through their leadership, scholarship and service.

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Alumni News

Whether they head off to academia, industry, the non-profit sector or government, our alumni do great things with their Allen School educations.

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Alumni Events

From community-wide events to exclusive alumni meetups — and more — there are many ways for alumni to engage with our faculty, current students and peers.

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Get Involved!

In addition to events, the Allen School offers multiple opportunities for our alumni to give back and inspire and support the students who would follow in their footsteps.

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Annual Research Showcase

Interested in learning more about Allen School research?

Join us at our annual Research Showcase and Open House on October 29, 2025, featuring talks and demos of the latest work in artificial intelligence (AI), wearables, and more!

Alumni Highlights

Allen School News

Faculty and alum recognized in TR35 Asia Pacific

Professors Simon Shaolei Du and Ranjay Krishna, and Sewon Min (Ph.D., ‘24), now faculty at University of California, Berkeley and a research scientist at Ai2, were honored by MIT Technology Review for their work in AI, large language models, computer vision and more.

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Professor Ratul Mahajan earns SIGCOMM Networking Systems Award

Mahajan (Ph.D., ‘05) was recognized for his work on Batfish, an open source network configuration analysis tool that helps find errors and prevent costly outages that could disrupt air travel, banking, communications and more.

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Akari Asai named one of MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35

Asai (Ph.D., ‘25), research scientist at Ai2 and incoming faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, was recognized for her pioneering research that has helped establish the foundations for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and showcase its effectiveness at reducing LLM hallucinations.