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Nicki Dell (Ph.D., ‘15) honored with 2025 Alumni Impact Award

Since graduating from the Allen School and joining the faculty of Cornell Tech, Dell has used technology to “make our computing-mediated world safer and more equitable for everyone” — with a particular focus on people experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) and home health care workers.

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Professor Ratul Mahajan named an ACM Fellow

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) recognized Mahajan (Ph.D., ‘05) among its 2025 class of ACM Fellows for his groundbreaking “contributions to network verification and network control systems and their transfer to industrial practice.”

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Anthropic acquires Vercept, one of Seattle’s standout AI startups

Allen School alum Kiana Ehsani (Ph.D., ‘21) co-founded Vercept to advance AI for automating repetitive computer tasks. The company spun out of the Ai2 Incubator and raised $50 million in seed funding before its acquisition by Anthropic, developer of the Claude AI assistant.

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Professor Vikram Iyer earns Sloan Research Fellowship

Iyer, co-director of the interdisciplinary CS for the Environment Initiative, was recognized among the 2026 class of fellows for his early-career efforts to address sustainability challenges — from recyclable electronics, to battery-free robotics, to AI-optimized hardware design.

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