Allen School Faculty

Meet our World-Class Faculty

The Allen School’s tenure-track, research and teaching faculty members are at the forefront of innovation — both in the lab and in the classroom.

Our faculty, which is approaching 100 members strong, has been widely recognized for their contributions advancing the field of computing while preparing students to be the leaders and innovators of tomorrow. Among them are 29 Sloan Research Fellows, 52 recipients of National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER or Presidential/NSF Young Investigator awards, three Presidential Early Career (PECASE) Award honorees, eight TR35 Award winners, and multiple individuals honored for advancing specific areas of the field. We also have 13 Fellows of the ACM, 10 Fellows of the IEEE, and four members of the National Academies, signifying our faculty’s career-spanning leadership and service to the scientific and engineering communities.

While they are lauded for their research contributions, our faculty members are first and foremost educators. Five professors have received the University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award, and we were the first unit on campus to earn the UW’s Brotman Award for Instructional Excellence.

Tim Althoff

Associate Professor

Data Science; Ethics & Fairness; Human-Centered AI; Natural Language Processing; Social Computing

Ruth E. Anderson

Teaching Professor

Computing Education

Tom Anderson

Professor

Cloud Computing; Computer Networking; Operating & Distributed Systems

Magdalena Balazinska

Professor & Director

Cloud Computing; Data Management; Data Science

Leilani Battle

Associate Professor

Data Management; Data Science; Data Visualization; Human-Centered AI; Human-Computer Interaction

Paul Beame

Professor

Associate Director of Facilities

Algorithms; Complexity; Quantum Computing

Gilbert Bernstein

Assistant Professor

Computer Graphics & Animation; Programming Languages

Rastislav Bodik

Professor

Programming Languages

Byron Boots

Professor

Computer Vision; Machine Learning; Robotics

Lauren Bricker

Associate Teaching Professor

Computing Education; Computing Education Research; Fabrication; Human-Computer Interaction

Nathan Brunelle

Associate Teaching Professor

Computing Education

Maya Cakmak

Professor

Accessibility; Human-Centered AI; Human-Computer Interaction; Robotics

Luis Ceze

Professor

Architecture & Parallel Computing; Machine Learning; Molecular Programming & Synthetic Biology

Andrea Coladangelo

Assistant Professor

Quantum Computing; Cryptography

Brian Curless

Professor

Augmented, Virtual & Mixed Reality; Computer Graphics & Animation; Computer Vision

Simon Shaolei Du

Assistant Professor

Algorithms; Data Science; Generative AI; Machine Learning

Michael Ernst

Professor

Computing Education Research; Formal Methods; Programming Languages; Security & Privacy; Software Engineering

Ali Farhadi

Professor

Computer Vision; Knowledge Representation & Reasoning; Machine Learning; Natural Language Processing

James Fogarty

Professor

Accessibility; Human-Centered AI; Human-Computer Interaction; Ubiquitous Computing, Sensing & Embedded Systems

Dieter Fox

Professor

Robotics

Jon E. Froehlich

Professor

Accessibility; Augmented, Virtual & Mixed Reality; Human-Computer Interaction; Ubiquitous Computing, Sensing & Embedded Systems

Elba Garza

Assistant Teaching Professor

Architecture & Parallel Computing; Computing Education Research

Shyam Gollakota

Professor

Computer Networking; Human-Centered AI; Ubiquitous Computing, Sensing & Embedded Systems; Wireless Systems

Matthew Golub

Assistant Professor

Computational Neuroscience & Neuroengineering; Data Science; Machine Learning

Dan Grossman

Professor & Vice Director

Computing Education Research; Programming Languages

Abhishek Gupta

Assistant Professor

Computer Vision; Machine Learning; Robotics

Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Associate Professor

Generative AI; Knowledge Representation & Reasoning; Machine Learning; Natural Language Processing

Jeffrey Heer

Professor

Data Management; Data Science; Data Visualization; Human-Computer Interaction

Kurtis Heimerl

Associate Professor

Computer Networking; Computing for Development; Human-Computer Interaction

Justin Hsia

Associate Teaching Professor

Computing Education Research

Vikram Iyer

Assistant Professor

Robotics; Ubiquitous Computing, Sensing & Embedded Systems; Wireless Systems

Kevin Jamieson

Associate Professor

Machine Learning

Natasha Jaques

Assistant Professor

Generative AI; Human-Centered AI; Machine Learning; Natural Language Processing

René Just

Associate Professor

Data Science; Security & Privacy; Software Engineering

Anna R. Karlin

Professor

Associate Director of Graduate Studies

Algorithms

Baris Kasikci

Associate Professor

Architecture & Parallel Computing; Computer Networking; Operating & Distributed Systems; Programming Languages

Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman

Professor

Augmented, Virtual & Mixed Reality; Computer Graphics & Animation; Computer Vision; Generative AI

Pang Wei Koh

Assistant Professor

Explainable AI; Generative AI; Machine Learning; Natural Language Processing

David Kohlbrenner

Assistant Professor

Architecture & Parallel Computing; Operating & Distributed Systems; Security & Privacy

Yoshi Kohno

Professor

Associate Dean, Faculty Success, College of Engineering

Augmented, Virtual & Mixed Reality; Ethics & Fairness; Human-Centered AI; Human-Computer Interaction; Security & Privacy

Ranjay Krishna

Assistant Professor

Computer Vision; Human-Centered AI; Machine Learning; Natural Language Processing; Robotics

Arvind Krishnamurthy

Professor

Cloud Computing; Computer Networking; Operating & Distributed Systems

Ed Lazowska

Professor

Cloud Computing; Computer Networking; Data Science; Operating & Distributed Systems

James R. Lee

Professor

Algorithms; Complexity

Su-In Lee

Professor

Computational Biology; Explainable AI; Machine Learning

Yin Tat Lee

Associate Professor

Algorithms

Jerry Li

Associate Professor

Machine Learning; Quantum Computing

Huijia (Rachel) Lin

Professor

Algorithms; Complexity; Cryptography

Kevin Lin

Assistant Teaching Professor

Computing Education Research

Ryan Maas

Assistant Teaching Professor

Cloud Computing; Computing Education Research; Data Management

Ratul Mahajan

Associate Professor

Cloud Computing; Computer Networking; Formal Methods; Operating & Distributed Systems

Jen Mankoff

Professor

Accessibility; Ethics & Fairness; Fabrication; Human-Computer Interaction; Ubiquitous Computing, Sensing & Embedded Systems

Barbara Mones

Teaching Professor

Augmented, Virtual & Mixed Reality; Computer Graphics & Animation; Computing Education Research

Jamie Morgenstern

Associate Professor

Ethics & Fairness; Human-Centered AI; Machine Learning

Sara Mostafavi

Associate Professor

Computational Biology; Machine Learning

Miya Natsuhara

Assistant Teaching Professor

Computing Education Research

Chinmay Nirkhe

Assistant Professor

Complexity; Quantum Computing

Jeff Nivala

Assistant Professor

Computational Biology; Molecular Programming & Synthetic Biology

Sewoong Oh

Professor

Machine Learning; Security & Privacy

Mark Oskin

Professor

Architecture & Parallel Computing

Shayan Oveis Gharan

Professor

Algorithms

Shwetak Patel

Professor

Associate Director of Development & Entrepreneurship

Human-Computer Interaction; Machine Learning; Ubiquitous Computing, Sensing & Embedded Systems

Hal Perkins

Teaching Professor

Computing Education Research

Simon Peter

Associate Professor

Cloud Computing; Computer Networking; Operating & Distributed Systems

Zoran Popović

Professor

Computational Biology; Computer Graphics & Animation; Computer Vision; Robotics

Anup Rao

Professor

Algorithms; Complexity

Rajesh P.N. Rao

Professor

Human-Centered AI; Computational Neuroscience & Neuroengineering; Robotics

Stuart Reges

Teaching Professor

Computing Education Research

Katharina Reinecke

Professor

Associate Director of Research and Communication

Ethics & Fairness; Human-Centered AI; Human-Computer Interaction

Franziska Roesner

Professor

Augmented, Virtual & Mixed Reality; Human-Computer Interaction; Security & Privacy

Thomas Rothvoss

Professor

Algorithms

Adrian Salguero

Assistant Teaching Professor

Computing Education; Computing Education Research

Hunter Schafer

Associate Teaching Professor

Computer Science Education

Adriana Schulz

Assistant Professor

Computer Graphics & Animation; Fabrication; Human-Centered AI

Georg Seelig

Professor

Computational Biology; Molecular Programming & Synthetic Biology

Steven Seitz

Professor

Augmented, Virtual & Mixed Reality; Computer Graphics & Animation; Computer Vision; Generative AI

Linda Shapiro

Professor

Computational Biology; Computer Vision; Machine Learning

R. Benjamin Shapiro

Associate Professor

Associate Director for Community

Computing Education Research; Fabrication; Human-Centered AI; Human-Computer Interaction

Joshua Smith

Professor

Computer Networking; Robotics; Ubiquitous Computing, Sensing & Embedded Systems; Wireless Sensing

Noah Smith

Professor

Machine Learning; Natural Language Processing

Siddhartha (Sidd) Srinivasa

Professor

Accessibility; Human-Centered AI; Machine Learning; Robotics

Dan Suciu

Professor

Data Management; Data Science; Formal Methods

Steve Tanimoto

Professor

Computing Education Research; Human-Centered AI; Human-Computer Interaction

Zachary Tatlock

Professor

Fabrication; Formal Methods; Programming Languages

Michael Bedford Taylor

Professor

Architecture & Parallel Computing; Generative AI

Stefano Tessaro

Professor

Interim Associate Director for Graduate Studies

Cryptography; Security & Privacy

Chris Thachuk

Assistant Professor

Molecular Programming & Synthetic Biology

Yulia Tsvetkov

Associate Professor

Ethics & Fairness; Human-Centered AI; Natural Language Processing

Nirvan Tyagi

Assistant Professor

Cryptography; Security & Privacy

Matt Wang

Assistant Teaching Professor

Computing Education Research

Sheng Wang

Assistant Professor

Computational Biology; Generative AI; Machine Learning; Natural Language Processing

Stephanie Wang

Assistant Professor

Operating & Distributed Systems; Programming Languages

Robbie Weber

Assistant Teaching Professor

Algorithms; Computing Education Research

James R. Wilcox

Assistant Teaching Professor

Computing Education Research; Operating & Distributed Systems; Programming Languages

Brett Wortzman

Associate Teaching Professor

Computing Education Research

Luke Zettlemoyer

Professor

Natural Language Processing

Amy Zhang

Assistant Professor

Human-Centered AI; Human Computer Interaction; Social Computing

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Meet our World-Class Faculty