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Stories about the Allen School’s people, research and impact.
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August 27, 2026 -
GeekWire
Allen School alum Cory Black (B.S., ‘18) left a career in tech behind when he literally ran off to join the circus. Now a full-time soccer freestylist, he recently took home the bronze medal from the International Jugglers’ Association Championships.
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August 26, 2026 -
Allen School News
Itani, who works with Allen School professor Shyam Gollakota in the Mobile Intelligence Lab, was recognized for exceptional early-career research advancing AI systems for “superhuman” hearing.
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August 26, 2026 -
Science World
Murphy (Ph.D., ‘96), professor and former Vice-President Research and Innovation at the University of British Columbia, will lead the Vancouver, BC organization’s efforts to engage learners in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art & design and math).
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August 13, 2026 -
Allen School News
Researchers in the Programming Languages & Software Engineering (PLSE) group introduced egg, an open-source library that uses e-graphs along with equality saturation to optimize term representations. Their paper was recently featured as a Communications of the ACM Research Highlight.
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August 7, 2026 -
HearingTracker
A technology known as semantic hearing developed in Allen School professor Shyam Gollakota's lab could let users create acoustic bubbles, isolate chosen voices, and control individual sounds in their environment.
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August 5, 2026 -
Allen School News
Li (B.S., ‘13) and his collaborators received the award for resolving a foundational problem in robust statistics, proving that a broad class of high-dimensional statistical problems can be both efficiently and robustly solved, even when some of the data has been corrupted.
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August 3, 2026 -
Allen School News
Grossman, who has served as vice director of the school for the past nine years and is a recognized leader in programming languages education and research, will succeed Magdalena Balazinska at the conclusion of her term on August 17.
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July 30, 2026 -
Allen School News
The medal from the International Mathematical Union recognizes a researcher under the age of 40 who has made outstanding contributions in the mathematical aspects of the information sciences.
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July 23, 2026 -
Quanta Magazine
Shayan Oveis Gharan, a professor in the Allen School’s Theory of Computation Group, received the 2026 IMU Abacus Medal from the International Mathematical Union for landmark contributions to the theory of algorithms.
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July 21, 2026 -
Allen School News
In the award-winning paper, Nirkhe and his collaborators resolved a longstanding problem in quantum complexity theory by proving that quantum proofs are computationally more powerful than classical proofs.