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Stories about the Allen School’s people, research and impact.
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June 10, 2025 -
Allen School News
The UW recognized the team behind the redesigned introduction to programming course series — lecturer Kasey Champion and teaching professors Elba Garza, Miya Natsuhara, Hunter Schafer and Brett Wortzman — as part of the 2025 Awards of Excellence, one of the University’s highest honors.
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June 4, 2025 -
Allen School News
Sharma (Ph.D., ‘24) won the 2024 award from the Association for Computing Machinery for leveraging AI to make high-quality mental health support more accessible, and Min (Ph.D., ‘24) received an honorable mention for developing a new class of efficient and flexible language models.
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May 28, 2025 -
Allen School News
Starting fall 2025, this new part-time evening program is designed to help working professionals across a range of industries to understand and leverage the latest artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques as part of their work.
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May 15, 2025 -
Allen School News
Researchers in the Allen School’s Security & Privacy Research Lab studied online ads and found that not only can they be annoying, but they are also inaccessible for screen reader users. Their work earned a Best Paper Award at last year’s Internet Measurement Conference.
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May 14, 2025 -
Allen School News
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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May 12, 2025 -
University of Washington Magazine
Allen School Ph.D. student Kate Glazko and her collaborators at UW CREATE explore how generative technologies can be both a help and a hindrance for people with disabilities.
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May 9, 2025 -
UW News
A team in the Mobile Intelligence Lab developed Spatial Speech Translation to enable simultaneous translation in group conversations while preserving the direction and qualities of each person’s voice.
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May 8, 2025 -
UW News
Researchers in the Allen School’s UbiComp Lab created the ProxiCycle sensor system to get a handle on which routes are best — and worst — for bikes, finding a significant correlation between the sensor data and other indicators of cycling risk.
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April 23, 2025 -
Allen School News
The ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction recognized Fogarty’s leadership and contributions to human-computer interaction research including ubiquitous computing, interactive machine learning, accessibility and personal health informatics.
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April 21, 2025 -
University of Washington
Undergraduates Hisham Batti and Eric Xiao, B.S./M.S. student Heer Patel and Ph.D. student Ananditha Raghunath were recognized for making the most of their time at UW to make a difference on campus and in their communities.