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Ph.D. student Rijul Jain earns Gates Cambridge Scholarship
Ph.D. student Rijul Jain earns Gates Cambridge Scholarship

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

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Ph.D. student Rijul Jain earns Gates Cambridge Scholarship


Rijul Jain

Jain will pursue a Master’s of Philosophy 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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Professor Ratul Mahajan named an ACM Fellow


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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


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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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