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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.

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Naomi Alterman

Faculty


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Tom Anderson

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Aleksandr Aravkin

Adjunct Faculty


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Jean-Loup Baer

Emeritus Faculty


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Magdalena Balazinska

Faculty


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Leilani Battle

Faculty


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David Beck

Adjunct Faculty


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Gilbert Bernstein

Faculty


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Karl Böhringer

Adjunct Faculty


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Alan Borning

Emeritus Faculty


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Luis Ceze

Faculty


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Andrea Coladangelo

Faculty


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Andrew Connolly

Adjunct Faculty


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Carl Ebeling

Emeritus Faculty


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Susan Eggers

Emeritus Faculty


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Michael Ernst

Faculty


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Elba Garza

Faculty


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Dan Grossman

Faculty


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Scott Hauck

Adjunct Faculty


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Jeffrey Heer

Faculty


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Kurtis Heimerl

Faculty


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Bruce Hemingway

Emeritus Faculty


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Bill Howe

Adjunct Faculty


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Vikram Iyer

Faculty


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Lalit Jain

Adjunct Faculty


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René Just

Faculty


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Baris Kasikci

Faculty


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Amy J. Ko

Adjunct Faculty


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David Kohlbrenner

Faculty


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Arvind Krishnamurthy

Faculty


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Ed Lazowska

Emeritus Faculty


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Hank Levy

Emeritus Faculty


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Huijia (Rachel) Lin

Faculty


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Ratul Mahajan

Faculty


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Chinmay Nirkhe

Faculty


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Mark Oskin

Faculty


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Simon Peter

Faculty


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Matt Reynolds

Adjunct Faculty


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Franziska Roesner

Faculty


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Alan Shaw

Emeritus Faculty


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Joshua Smith

Faculty


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Michael Stiber

Adjunct Faculty


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Dan Suciu

Faculty


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Zachary Tatlock

Faculty


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Michael Bedford Taylor

Faculty


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Stefano Tessaro

Faculty


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Nirvan Tyagi

Faculty


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Stephanie Wang

Faculty


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James R. Wilcox

Faculty


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John Zahorjan

Emeritus Faculty


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Dongfang Zhao

Adjunct Faculty

Highlights

Allen School News

Ph.D. student Er-Cheng Tang earns FOCS 2025 Machtey Award for Best Student Paper


Er-Cheng Tang and Mi-Ying (Miryam) Huang hold the plaque they received for the Machtey Award for Best Student Paper.

In the award-winning paper, Tang developed the first quantum state obfuscation scheme for unitary quantum programs, which are the backbone of quantum computing, in the classical oracle model. He presented the research at the 66th IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science last December.



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GeekWire

UW team working on CPR feedback device wins health innovation challenge


Two pairs of students hold mock award checks made out to CPRight from the Holloman Health Innovation Challenge. One check is is sponsored by the Hollomon Family for $15,000 and the other is sponsored by NaturaCur Wound Healing for $2,500

Allen School undergraduate Prisha Hemani and teammates won the grand prize in the 2026 Hollomon Health Challenge for CPRight, a real-time CPR feedback device. The annual competition is hosted by the UW’s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship in the Foster School of Business.



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Allen School News

Professor Ratul Mahajan named an ACM Fellow


Ratul Mahajan sitting a desk facing the camera.

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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