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A team of University of Washington and NVIDIA researchers developed FlashInfer, a versatile inference kernel library that can help make large language models faster and more adaptable, and received a Best Paper Award at MLSys 2025 for their work.

The Computing Research Association recognized Schulz for her research and leadership in computer graphics, including her work to advance new computational tools for manufacturing-oriented design.

On Friday, June 13, an estimated 5,000 friends, family, faculty and staff packed the UW’s Alaska Airlines Arena, where roughly 800 graduates collected their commemorative diplomas, flipped their tassels and made the transition from Allen School students to Allen School alumni.

Dell (Ph.D., '15) combines the fields of human-computer interaction and computer security and privacy to improve the lives of overlooked communities. The Allen School recognized her with the 2025 Alumni Impact Award, honoring former students with exceptional records of achievement.

The UW recognized the team behind the redesigned introduction to programming course series — lecturer Kasey Champion and teaching professors Elba Garza, Miya Natsuhara, Hunter Schafer and Brett Wortzman — as part of the 2025 Awards of Excellence, one of the University’s highest honors.

Sharma (Ph.D., ‘24) won the 2024 award from the Association for Computing Machinery for leveraging AI to make high-quality mental health support more accessible, and Min (Ph.D., ‘24) received an honorable mention for developing a new class of efficient and flexible language models.

Starting fall 2025, this new part-time evening program is designed to help working professionals across a range of industries to understand and leverage the latest artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques as part of their work.

Researchers in the Allen School’s Security & Privacy Research Lab studied online ads and found that not only can they be annoying, but they are also inaccessible for screen reader users. Their work earned a Best Paper Award at last year’s Internet Measurement Conference.

Armon Dadgar (B.S., ‘11) co-founded the high-flying cloud company HashiCorp inspired by an undergraduate research project. Now he and partner Joshua Kalla hope to sow the seeds of the next HashiCorp with a new professorship and support for a new generation of innovators and entrepreneurs.

Allen School Ph.D. student Kate Glazko and her collaborators at UW CREATE explore how generative technologies can be both a help and a hindrance for people with disabilities.