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December 17, 2025 -
Allen School News
The fellowship will support Zhang’s work in sustainable ubiquitous computing, including the development of recyclable electronics and leveraging artificial intelligence to estimate carbon footprints and provide personalized health insights.
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December 11, 2025 -
UW News
AI trained on data from the entire internet won't work equally well for people in different cultures. But when UW researchers fed AI agents data from a kitchen simulation game, they found that the AI absorbed cultural values from observing human behavior — similar to what children do.
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December 9, 2025 -
UW News
The prototype from researchers in the Mobile Systems Lab led by Allen School professor Shyam Gollakota detects the cadence of a conversation and automatically tracks participants’ voices for the wearer while muting the rest.
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December 9, 2025 -
GeekWire
A team co-led by Allen School professor Sheng Wang and Ph.D. alum Hoifung Poon unveiled GigaTIME, a multimodal model for generating detailed data on cancer progression and immune response from standard pathology slides — at a fraction of the time and cost of prior methods.
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December 4, 2025 -
Allen School News
In a Q&A, professor Kurtis Heimerl and postdoc Esther Han Beol Jang (Ph.D., ‘24) discuss their work with residents of two Seattle tiny house villages on how they can leverage smart technologies to improve living conditions, balanced against concerns such as cost and continuity of deployment.
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December 2, 2025 -
GeekWire
Ehsani (Ph.D., ‘21) is the “brilliant, dedicated and intuitive” co-founder and CEO of Vercept, which has developed an AI tool called Vy that automates repetitive tasks to enable humans to focus on more creative pursuits.
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November 25, 2025 -
KUOW Booming
On an episode of KUOW’s “Booming” podcast, Grossman explained how the industry has repeatedly been transformed by the emergence of new tools — and how the Allen School is preparing students for the latest transformation alongside the rise of artificial intelligence.
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November 19, 2025 -
Allen School News
To help make datasets easier to explore, in 2015, a team of researchers led by Heer introduced Voyager, a system that automatically generates and recommends charts and visualizations based on statistical and perceptual measures — which earned the InfoVis 10-Year Test of Time Award at IEEE VIS 2025.
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November 18, 2025 -
UW News
Smith will be the new vice provost for artificial intelligence and inaugural Charles and Lisa Simonyi Endowed Chair for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies thanks to a $10M gift from the couple to support the UW’s global leadership in AI.
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November 10, 2025 -
Allen School News
At the Allen School, 22% of undergraduate students are first generation. In honor of the National First-Generation College Celebration on November 8, we asked students and faculty to share their experience being first and what advice they have for others still embarking on their first-gen journey.