Alumni News
The Allen School’s Alumni News features stories and updates that celebrate the achievements and experiences of our alumni.
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October 8, 2025 -
Allen School News
Mahajan (Ph.D., ‘05) was recognized for his work on Batfish, an open source network configuration analysis tool that helps find errors and prevent costly outages that could disrupt air travel, banking, communications and more.
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October 2, 2025 -
Allen School News
Asai (Ph.D., ‘25), research scientist at Ai2 and incoming faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, was recognized for her pioneering research that has helped establish the foundations for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and showcase its effectiveness at reducing LLM hallucinations.
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September 25, 2025 -
Allen School News
Allen School researchers earned multiple awards at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics for laying the foundation for how AI systems understand and follow human instructions, exploring how LLMs pull responses from their training data, and more.
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September 10, 2025 -
Allen School News
To help Reddit moderators make data-driven decisions on what rules are best for their community, a team of researchers in the Allen School’s Behavioral Data Science Group and Social Futures Lab conducted the largest-to-date analysis of over 67,000 Reddit rules and their evolution.
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September 9, 2025 -
Allen School News
There has been a lot of chatter about new computer science graduates and employment in the AI era. Allen School professors Magdalena Balazinska and Dan Grossman examine the myths and realities surrounding AI and the prospects for current and future Allen School majors.
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August 26, 2025 -
Allen School News
In 2011, a team of researchers that included Allen School professor and alum Franziska Roesner published a paper detailing how they could remotely take control of a car. Their work, which inspired new motor vehicle security standards, received the USENIX Test of Time Award.
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August 22, 2025 -
GeekWire
Aatish Parson (B.S., ‘25) has hit a few bumps in the road since graduation—all the better for building the CivicScan app that uses artificial intelligence to detect potholes and other issues to smooth the way for improved road maintenance.
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August 12, 2025 -
Allen School News
In a recent paper, a team of researchers led by professor Matt Golub designed a new machine learning technique to understand how different parts of the brain talk to each other even when some parts can’t be directly observed.
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July 29, 2025 -
Association for Computational Linguistics
The Association for Computational Linguistics honored Min (Ph.D., ‘24) for her dissertation “Rethinking Data Use in Large Language Models,” which expanded the natural language processing community’s understanding of the behavior and capabilities of LLMs.
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July 9, 2025 -
UW College of Arts & Sciences
Ye, who graduated in June with degrees in computer science and philosophy, was recognized by the College of Arts & Sciences for his campus leadership and interdisciplinary research contributions spanning language models, computer vision, human-AI interaction and more.