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Grand Challenges

Grand Challenge 4

How do we create technologies that sustain people and the planet?

Advances in AI, remote sensing and other technologies offer new ways to anticipate and mitigate environmental concerns, from dwindling biodiversity to intensifying wildfires.

But these same technologies can present concerns of their own in the form of electronic waste, pollution and energy consumption. Allen School researchers are developing new materials and techniques to maximize technology’s potential while minimizing its environmental footprint.

To learn more or contribute to solving this challenge, email grand-challenges@cs.washington.edu.


Faculty Meeting the Challenge

Professor


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

Associate Professor


Data Science; Security & Privacy; Software Engineering

Professor


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

Assistant Professor


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

Professor


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

Associate Professor


Computer Networking; Computing for Development; Human-Computer Interaction

Professor


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


Collaborators & Partner Institutions


Selected Projects

Zhihan Zhang*, Felix Hähnlein*, Yuxuan Mei*, Zachary Englhardt, Shwetak Patel…

Zhihan Zhang, Agni K. Biswal, Ankush Nandi, Kali Frost, Jake A. Smith, Bichlien …

Milin Kodnongbua, Zachary Englhardt, Ricardo Bianchini, Rodrigo Fonseca…

Zachary Englhardt, Felix Hähnlein, Yuxuan Mei, Tong Lin, Connor Masahiro Sun…

Zhihan Zhang, Puvarin (Pu) Thavikulwat, Alexander Metzger, Yuxuan Mei…

Migineishvili, Nino, Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin, Emmanuel Azuh, Spencer A. Wood…