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Stories about the Allen School’s people, research and impact.
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January 7, 2026 -
Allen School News
The team co-led by professor emeritus Richard Ladner examined how people with visual and motor disabilities select, adapt and use mobile devices in their everyday lives. Since its publication in 2009, the findings have helped guide new innovations in mobile device accessibility.
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January 2, 2026 -
WIRED
Professor Shyam Gollakota spoke to WIRED about his work with UW spinout Hearvana leveraging AI to enable people to go beyond noise canceling to customize their soundscape — including selectively amplifying sounds or voices they want to hear while minimizing ones they don’t.
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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 16, 2025 -
UW News
New research from UW researchers and the Toyota Research Institute, or TRI, explores how drivers balance driving and using touch screens while distracted. The results could help auto manufacturers design safer, more responsive touch screens and in-car interfaces.
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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.