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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tang, who earned her Ph.D. as a member of the Allen School’s Theory group, received the 2025 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize for her work on classical analogs of quantum algorithms for machine learning and linear algebra, and quantum machine learning on quantum data.

For her groundbreaking research on explainable AI for biology and medicine, Lee, who directs the UW’s AI for bioMedical Sciences Lab, was named a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).

The lived experiences of people with disabilities are often ignored in the development of new technologies, but that’s not the case with the Allen School’s ADA project. Community researcher Jonathan Ko joined recent Ph.D. alum Amal Nanavati to discuss their collaboration.

The Taskar Center for Accessible Technology created the first statewide data set enabling communities across Washington to map pedestrian infrastructure and transit access — which paves the way for exploring other questions such as access to schools, grocery stores and health care.

Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics researchers teamed up with Taskar Center Director Anat Caspi and computer engineering major Marc Alwan to explore how eye-tracking can help autonomous systems adapt their interactions to individual users’ comfort and safety preferences.