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Allen School Alumni

We are proud of our alumni, who are using their Allen School educations to advance our field and solve real-world problems — here in our region and throughout the world. 

When our graduates switch their tassels to the other side, that doesn’t mark an ending but a beginning: The beginning of a new journey, one in which they will remain part of our extended Allen School community.

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Impact Awards

The Allen School Alumni Impact Awards emphasize to each new generation of graduates that they are joining a community of alumni whose impact reaches far and wide.


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UW Recognition

A succession of our alumni have earned university and college-level accolades for exceptional contributions through their leadership, scholarship and service.


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Alumni News & Notes

Whether they head off to academia, industry, the non-profit sector or government, our alumni do great things with their Allen School educations.


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Alumni Events

From community-wide events to exclusive alumni meetups — and more — there are many ways for alumni to engage with our faculty, current students and peers.


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Get Involved!

In addition to events, the Allen School offers multiple opportunities for our alumni to give back and inspire and support the students who would follow in their footsteps.


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Alumni Highlights

Allen School News

Alum's $3M gift will advance Allen School research and student success


Portrait of Armon Dadgar and Joshua Kalla in a grove of trees

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.



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Simons Foundation

Alum Ewin Tang (Ph.D., ‘23) wins mathematics Breakthrough Prize


Portrait of Ewin Tang

Tang, who earned her Ph.D. as a member of the Allen School’s Theory group, received the 2025 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize for her work on classical analogs of quantum algorithms for machine learning and linear algebra, and quantum machine learning on quantum data.



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Oregon Public Broadcasting

People with motor impairments help develop robotic feeding assistant


A person seated in a wheelchair at a table controls a laptop with a mouthpiece as a robotic arm spears a piece of food with a fork on a side table

The lived experiences of people with disabilities are often ignored in the development of new technologies, but that’s not the case with the Allen School’s ADA project. Community researcher Jonathan Ko joined recent Ph.D. alum Amal Nanavati to discuss their collaboration.



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