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Software & Hardware Systems

Our researchers are driving innovation across the entire hardware, software and network stack to make computer systems more reliable, efficient and secure. 

From internet-scale networks, to next-generation chip designs, to deep learning frameworks and more, we build and refine the devices and applications that individuals, industries and, indeed, entire economies depend upon every day.


Research Groups & Labs

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Security and Privacy Research Lab

The Security and Privacy Research Lab works on a variety of topics, ranging from studying and addressing security and privacy risks in existing technologies, to anticipating future risks in emerging technologies.

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Interactive Data Lab

The Interactive Data Lab aims to enhance people’s ability to understand and communicate data through the design of new interactive systems for data visualization and analysis.


Faculty Members

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Centers & Initiatives

MEM-C is a NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center that integrates materials innovations with theory and computation to advance spin-photonic nanostructures and elastic layered quantum materials, aided by an “AI Core” that integrates artificial intelligence-driven materials discovery.

Society + Technology is a cross-campus, cross-disciplinary initiative and community at the University of Washington that is dedicated to research, teaching and learning focused on the social, societal and justice dimensions of technology.

Highlights


GeekWire

After nearly half a century at UW — and at the intersection of Seattle tech, education and civic life — Lazowska is logging off from his official duties. But he’s not completely shutting things down, with plans to stay involved in the community and focus on “the big problems.”

Allen School News

Cardinality estimation helps guide decisions on every aspect of query execution, but current methods often have large errors. To address this, Suciu introduced a more accurate and efficient cardinality estimator, LpBound, which provides a guaranteed upper bound on the query output size.

Allen School News

Balazinska was elected to the WSAS, which provides scientific and technical advice to state policymakers, based on her “contributions in data management for data science, big data systems, cloud computing, and image/video analytics and leadership in data science education.”