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Stories about the Allen School’s people, research and impact.
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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.
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April 14, 2025 -
Allen School News
Deeds introduced partition constraints, a new approach for making conjunctive query executions more efficient. He presented the research at the 28th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT), earning both the Best Student Paper and Best Paper Awards.
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April 9, 2025 -
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Andre Ye taught himself deep learning on his way to enrolling in the UW at age 15. Ye, who majored in computer science and philosophy, won a 2025 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship to support pursuit of his Ph.D. focused on AI tools for critical thinking in the textual social sciences.
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April 8, 2025 -
GeekWire
The company, co-founded by Allen School professor Joshua Smith, received its second major 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its Paradigm AI surgical guidance platform to include intraoperative measurements — enabling surgeons to measure success in real-time.