2023
- Distinctions with a difference: Allen School researchers unveil ContrastiveVI, a deep generative model for gleaning additional insights from single-cell datasets
- With a new app, smart devices can have GPS underwater
- An app can transform smartphones into thermometers that accurately detect fevers
- Allen School’s Simon Du and Sewoong Oh to advance AI for responding to threats both natural and human-made as part of NSF-led National AI Research Institutes
- Home test offers early diagnosis for liver disease patients
- Researchers unveil BioTranslator, a machine learning model that bridges biological data and text to accelerate biomedical discovery
- UW researchers show how to tap into the sensing capabilities of any smartphone to screen for prediabetes
- Leilani Battle awarded 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship
- Q&A: How AI can help people be more empathetic about mental health
- Luis Ceze named Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for advancing new paradigms in computer architecture and programming systems
- Allen School professors Tadayoshi Kohno and Rajesh Rao named IEEE Fellows for pioneering new directions in computing research
2022
- University of Washington and Microsoft study of online search activity during the pandemic offers a new window into the second-level digital divide
- Q&A: UW researchers find privacy risks with 3D tours on real estate websites
- How low-cost earbuds can make hearing screening accessible
- Q&A: UnlockedMaps provides real-time accessibility information for urban rail transit in six metro areas
- UW’s Yejin Choi wins MacArthur Foundation ‘genius grant’
- A smartphone’s camera and flash could help people measure blood oxygen levels at home
- How to help assembly-line robots shift gears and pick up almost anything
- ClearBuds: First wireless earbuds that clear up calls using deep learning
- Smartphone-based tympanometry system from UW researchers offers a pocket-sized solution for testing middle ear function
- VoxLens: Adding one line of code can make some interactive visualizations accessible to screen-reader users
- ‘I don’t even remember what I read’: People enter a ‘dissociative state’ when using social media
- New Meta AI Mentorship Program enables Allen School Ph.D. students to collaborate with industry while advancing open research
- Q&A: Making Earth-friendly electronics
- With CoAI, UW researchers demonstrate how predictive AI can benefit patient care — even on a budget
- Tiny battery-free devices float in the wind like dandelion seeds
- Allen School’s Luke Zettlemoyer elected Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics for expanding the frontiers of natural language processing
- Samson Jenekhe, Anna Karlin elected to National Academy of Engineering
- Smartphone app can vibrate a single drop of blood to determine how well it clots
- New Center for Environmental Forensic Science aims to disrupt and dismantle international illegal wildlife trade
- UW and Amazon announce creation of the Science Hub
- Richard Ladner elected AAAS Fellow for his leadership in making computing education and careers accessible to people with disabilities
- Deserts, demographics and diet: UW and Stanford researchers reveal findings of nationwide study of the relationship between food environment and healthy eating
2021
- UW professor Joshua R. Smith elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors for his innovations in wireless power, communication, sensing and robotics
- Taskar Center launches first mobile version of AccessMap pedestrian trip planning tool for Android and iOS
- "A force of nature": Technology leaders create endowed professorship fund in honor of Allen School professor and tech community champion Ed Lazowska
- Recent faculty hires expand the Allen School's leadership in machine learning, computational biology, systems security, and more
- Wearable injector can detect and reverse opioid overdose
- Political ads during the 2020 presidential election cycle collected personal information and spread misleading information
- UW and UC San Diego researchers honored for their work discovering that someone could hack a car
- UW researchers can turn a single photo into a video
- Professor Anna Karlin elected to the National Academy of Sciences
- Arguing on the internet: UW researchers studying how to make online arguments productive
- Taskar Center researchers offer a roadmap for more robust modeling of pedestrian mobility on a city-wide scale
- New system that uses smartphone or computer cameras to measure pulse, respiration rate could help future personalized telehealth appointments
- Helpful behavior during pandemic tied to recognizing common humanity
- Alexa, do I have an irregular heart rhythm? First AI system for contactless monitoring of heart rhythm using smart speakers
- Allen School's Jeffrey Heer elected to CHI Academy
- ‘Small moon’ shapes allow DNA devices to attach in precise orientations
- Allen School faculty honored by the Association for Computing Machinery for advancing probabilistic robotics, internet-scale systems, and more
- $11.45 million federal grant will develop transit, mobility tech for underserved groups
- Allen School faculty and alumni honored by IEEE for enduring contributions to software engineering, internet-scale computing and artificial intelligence
2020
- UW part of $5.8M contract to study wireless charging on moon
- Porcupine molecular tagging scheme offers a sharp contrast to conventional inventory control systems
- SoundWatch: New smartwatch app alerts d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing users to birdsong, sirens and other desired sounds
- Allen School professor Yin Tat Lee earns Packard Fellowship to advance the fundamentals of modern computing
- Airdropping sensors from moths: Researchers use flying insects to drop sensors from air, land them safely on the ground
- UW launches Institute for Foundations of Data Science
- Faculty from Allen School, Evans School tapped for NSF institutes on artificial intelligence
- The “conscience of computing”: Allen School’s Richard Ladner receives Public Service Award from the National Science Board
- Michael Ernst receives ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award for contributions that have revolutionized software engineering
- Vikram Iyer receives Marconi Society Young Scholar Award after creating a buzz with bio-inspired wireless technologies
- A GoPro for beetles: Researchers create a robotic camera backpack for insects
- Adriana Schulz and Nadya Peek earn TR35 awards for their efforts to revolutionize fabrication and manufacturing while bridging the human-machine divide
- Luis Ceze and Karin Strauss share ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award for their work on DNA-based digital data storage
- Allen School professor Dieter Fox receives RAS Pioneer Award from IEEE Robotics Automation Society
- UW launches new Center for Research and Education on Accessible Technology and Experiences with $2.5 million investment from Microsoft
- Should you help a sick person? UW psychology, computer science faculty study ‘moral dilemmas’ of COVID-19
- A contact-tracing app that helps public health agencies and doesn't compromise your privacy
- UW's 3D printed COVID-19 face shields: From innovation to delivery
- "I saw you were online": How online status indicators shape our behavior
- Privacy and the pandemic: UW and Microsoft researchers present a pact for using technology to fight the spread of COVID-19
- How people investigate — or don't — fake news on Twitter and Facebook
- 'Age of A.I.' documentary on YouTube features UW experts
- #MemoriesInDNA portrait project blends DNA technology and art to memorialize pioneering scientist Rosalind Franklin
- Four UW scientists awarded Sloan Research Fellowships for early-career research
- The one ring — to track your finger’s location
2019
- Carpentry Compiler helps woodworkers design objects that they can actually make
- Researchers get "glimpse into a human mind" as it makes choices in groups, social media
- Popular third-party genetic genealogy site is vulnerable to compromised data, impersonations
- First smart speaker system that uses white noise to monitor infants' breathing
- Allen School releases MuSHR robotic race car platform to drive advances in AI research and education
- New tools to minimize risks in shared, augmented-reality environments
- Artificial intelligence could yield more accurate breast cancer diagnoses
- Magdalena Balazinska named director of UW's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
- How you and your friends can play a video game together using only your minds
- 'Alexa, monitor my heart': Researchers develop first contactless cardiac arrest AI system for smart speakers
- Behind the magic: Making moving photos a reality
- First smartphone app that can hear ear infections in children
- Project Sidewalk helps users map accessibility around Seattle, other cities
- UW virtuoso of mobile sensing technology receives ACM Prize in Computing
- With a 'hello,' Microsoft and UW demonstrate first fully automated DNA data storage
- How to train your robot (to feed you dinner)
- Three UW scientists awarded Sloan Fellowship for early-career research
- Bill & Melinda Gates Center opens a new era of computer science education and innovation at the University of Washington
- First smartphone app to detect opioid overdose and its precursors
2018
- Researchers create first sensor package that can ride aboard bees
- Creating curious robots: UW researchers get Honda grant to build a mathematical model of curiosity
- Prescience: Helping doctors predict the future
- Researchers develop 3D printed objects that can track and store how they are used
- Lunar library to include photos, books stored in DNA
- Non-contact sleep tracking mobile app, SleepScore, inspired in part by ApneaApp research performed by University of Washington researchers
- The first wireless flying robotic insect takes off
- Researchers achieve HD video streaming at 10,000 times lower power
- Screen reader plus keyboard helps blind, low-vision users browse modern webpages
- Four UW students honored by Goldwater Foundation
- With new 'shuffling' trick, researchers can measure gene activity in single cells
- Using a laser to wirelessly charge a smartphone safely across a room
- Five UW scientists awarded Sloan Fellowships for early-career research
- #MemoriesInDNA Project wants to store your photos in DNA for the benefit of science — and future generations
- UW Reality Lab launches with $6M from tech companies to advance augmented and virtual reality research
2017
- In first, 3-D printed objects connect to WiFi without electronics
- UW students win Amazon's inaugural Alexa Prize for most engaging socialbot
- New tool quantifies power imbalance between female and male characters in Hollywood movie scripts
- How to store information in your clothes invisibly, without electronics
- For $1000, anyone can purchase online ads to track your location and app use
- UW team shatters long-range communication barrier for devices that consume almost no power
- PupilScreen aims to allow parents, coaches, medics to detect concussion, brain injuries with a smartphone
- New app could use smartphone selfies to screen for pancreatic cancer
- Computer scientists use music to covertly track body movements, activity
- DNA sequencing tool lack robust protections against cybersecurity risks
- Lip-syncing Obama: New tools turn audio clips into realistic video
- First battery-free cellphone makes calls by harvesting ambient power
- Catching the IMSI-catchers: SeaGlass brings transparency to cell phone surveillance
- Kids, parents alike worried about privacy with internet-connected toys
- Period tracking apps failing users in basic ways, study finds
- Food photos help Instagram users with healthy eating
- Scientific discovery game significantly speeds up neuroscience research process
- Two UW faculty named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- $50M endowment establishes the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington
- Singing posters and talking shirts: UW engineers turn everyday objects into FM radio stations
- UW CSE announces the Guestrin Endowed Professorship in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
- Three UW scientists awarded Sloan Fellowships for early-career research
- New route-finding map lets Seattle pedestrians avoid hills, construction, accessibility barriers
- Two UW professors win Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers
2016
- No peeking: Humans play computer game using only direct brain stimulation
- What makes Bach sound like Bach? New dataset teaches algorithms classical music
- Secure passwords can be sent through your body, instead of air
- HemaApp screens for anemia, blood conditions without needle sticks
- Interscatter communication enables first-ever implanted devices, smart contact lenses, credit cards that ‘talk’ Wi-Fi
- Unearthing trackers of the past: UW computer scientists reveal the history of third-party web tracking
- Imaging software predicts how you look with different hair styles, colors, appearances
- UW, Microsoft researchers break record for DNA data storage
- How well do facial recognition algorithms cope with a million strangers?
- UW-led team awarded $1M bioelectronics innovation prize
- Paper gets ‘smart’ with drawn-on, stenciled sensor tags
- This five-fingered robot hand learns to get a grip on its own
- New health sensing tool measures lung function over a phone call, from anywhere in the world
- UW team stores digital images in DNA — and retrieves them perfectly
- Smartwatches can now track your finger in mid-air using sonar
- UW engineers achieve Wi-Fi at 10,000 times lower power
- Three UW professors win Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
- UW computer scientists to make financial products better and more available for the poor
2015
- UW center receives $16M to work on first implantable device to reanimate paralyzed limbs
- What makes Tom Hanks look like Tom Hanks?
- Popular Science names ‘Power Over Wi-Fi’ one of the year’s game-changing technologies
- Life, enhanced: UW professors study legal, social complexities of an augmented reality future
- Affordable camera reveals hidden details invisible to the naked eye
- AI system solves SAT geometry questions as well as average human test taker
- New wearable technology can sense appliance use, help track carbon footprint
- From protein design to self-driving cars: UW researchers win AI prize for new optimization approach
- Computer security tools for journalists lacking in a post-Snowden world
- New UW app can detect sleep apnea events via smartphone
- Research identifies barriers in tracking meals and what foodies want
- Who’s a CEO? Google image results can shift gender biases