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Stories about the Allen School’s people, research and impact.
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May 12, 2026 -
Allen School News
In December, Feng was named among the 2026 class of NVIDIA Graduate Fellows in recognition of his work on model collaboration, where “multiple AI models, trained on different data, by different people, and thus possess diverse skills and strengths, collaborate, compose and complement each other.”
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May 8, 2026 -
UW News
Allen School researchers and collaborators in the Urban Freight Lab created Pantrymap.org to map the location of micropantries and community fridges in the greater Seattle region and installed sensors to automatically track stock levels at some locations.
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May 6, 2026 -
Institute for Foundations of Data Science
The International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) recognized Jamieson for his 2016 paper underpinning an approach to hyperparameter optimization that has been widely adopted within the machine learning community.
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May 5, 2026 -
Allen School News
Multiple Allen School authors received Best Paper Awards or honorable mentions for their work on interactive systems that enable more flexible human-AI agent collaboration, an AI-based tool that helps screen-reader users make sense of geovisualizations, and more.
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April 28, 2026 -
UW News
The web app, which was developed by researchers in the Allen School’s Makeability Lab, enables users in Seattle to map their ride based on factors such as bike lanes, speed limits, pavement quality, and more.
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April 22, 2026 -
American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Professor Magda Balazinska was honored for her influential contributions in data management and data science, while Professor Shwetak Patel was recognized for his groundbreaking work applying computing to health and sustainability.
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April 20, 2026 -
University of Washington
Undergraduates Maya Falodia, Krisha Khandelwal, Aybala Turkarslan, Jiaqi Wang, and Kevin Wang, along with master’s student Andrew Shaw (B.S., ‘25), were honored by the UW for making the most of their Husky Experience in and out of the classroom.
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April 14, 2026 -
UW News
Researchers in the Allen School’s Mobile Intelligence Lab developed VueBuds, the first system that incorporates tiny cameras in off-the-shelf wireless earbuds as a less-intrusive, more privacy-preserving alternative to smart glasses.
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April 8, 2026 -
CNN Business
“#AI is not killing your job options. It’s expanding them.” That’s the gist of Allen School Professor and Director Magda Balazinska’s message welcoming undergraduates back from spring break. According to a recent CNN Business article, there’s data to back that up.
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April 7, 2026 -
Allen School News
The ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) recently honored Froehlich (Ph.D., ‘11) for his work to improve pedestrian infrastructure across the globe and tackle a range of other accessibility challenges using AI and HCI.