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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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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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Ph.D. student Rijul Jain earns Gates Cambridge Scholarship


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Jain will pursue a Master’s of Philosophy in English at Cambridge University to complement his Allen School research focused on designing computational tools for digital archival collections that better reflect the needs and values of the communities they serve.



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Allen School By The Numbers

#1

Requested STEM Major Among
UW First-Year Applicants

2,900

Undergraduate & Graduate
Majors Enrolled

$52M

Research Activity in
FY2025

#1

University for Best Paper Awards in
Computer Science

The Paul G. Allen School educates tomorrow’s innovators, conducts cutting-edge research in core and emerging areas of the field, and leads a variety of multi-disciplinary initiatives that demonstrate the transformative power of computing. Consistently ranked among the top computer science programs in the nation, we are widely recognized for the excellence and impact of our research and teaching across the region and around the globe. As a recognized leader in broadening participation in computing, we cultivate a welcoming community in which individuals with diverse backgrounds, identities and experiences can thrive.

 

We are located in the spectacular Paul G. Allen Center and Bill & Melinda Gates Center at the heart of the University of Washington campus in Seattle — a center of innovation in software, life sciences, global health, aerospace, and many other fields — where Allen School faculty, students and alumni are making an impact and changing the world.