Below is a partial list of peer-reviewed papers published by Allen School authors, including award-winning conference papers and selected journal papers that highlight the variety of our researchers' contributions to the field. Visit our faculty directory to access a complete list of publications for individual faculty members via their homepages, and check out our CS for Good page to learn more about Allen School research that advances public health, the environment, accessible communities, and more.
Conference Award Papers
2023
- IMC (Best Paper): Tracking, Profiling, and Ad Targeting in the Alexa Echo Smart Speaker Ecosystem
- ACL (Best Paper): Do Androids Laugh at Electric Sheep? Humor ‘Understanding’ Benchmarks from The New Yorker Caption Contest
- ACL (Best Paper): From Pretraining Data to Language Models to Downstream Tasks: Tracking the Trails of Political Biases Leading to Unfair NLP Models
- ACL (Outstanding Paper): Cognitive Reframing of Negative Thoughts through Human-Language Model Interaction
- ACL (Outstanding Paper): Minding Language Models’ (Lack of) Theory of Mind: A Plug-and-Play Multi-Character Belief Tracker
- COGSCI (Best Paper, Perception and Action): Dynamic Predictive Coding Explains Both Prediction and Motion Perception
- PODS (Test of Time): Communication Steps for Parallel Query Processing
- CHI (Best Paper): CiteSee: Augmenting Citations in Scientific Papers with Persistent and Personalized Historical Context
- SIGACT/EATCS (Gödel Prize): The Matching Polytope has Exponential Extension Complexity
- HRI (Best Design Paper): Design Principles for Robot-Assisted Feeding in Social Contexts
- NSDI (Test of Time): Detecting and Defending Against Third-Party Tracking on the Web
2022
- NeurIPS (Outstanding Paper): ProcTHOR: Large-Scale Embodied AI Using Procedural Generation
- NeurIPS (Outstanding Datasets and Benchmarks Paper): LAION-5B: An open large-scale dataset for training next generation image-text models
- ISS (10-Year Impact): The Sound of Touch: On-body Touch and Gesture Sensing Based on Transdermal Ultrasound Propagation
- IEEE VIS (Test of Time): Enterprise Data Analysis and Visualization: An Interview Study
- PODS (Best Paper): Convergence of Datalog over (Pre-) Semirings
- ACL (Test of Time): Open Language Learning for Information Extraction
- PLDI (Best Paper): Synthesizing Analytical SQL Queries from Computation Demonstration
2021
- NeurIPS (Outstanding Paper): MAUVE: Measuring the Gap Between Neural Text and Human Text using Divergence Frontiers
- SOSP (Best Paper): Using Lightweight Formal Methods to Validate a Key-Value Storage Node in Amazon S3
- PETS (Best Student Paper): Oblivious DNS over HTTPS (ODoH): A Practical Privacy Enhancement to DNS
- STOC (Best Paper): A (Slightly) Improved Approximation Algorithm for Metric TSP
- STOC (Best Paper): Indistinguishability Obfuscation from Well-Founded Assumptions
- ASSETS (Impact Award): Disability studies as a source of critical inquiry for the field of assistive technology
- IEEE InfoVis (Test of Time): D3: Data-Driven Documents
- ICRA (Best Paper, Human-Robot Interaction): Reactive Human-to-Robot Handovers of Arbitrary Objects
- CHI (Best Paper): Falx: Synthesis-Powered Visualization Authoring
- CHI (Best Paper): “That courage to encourage”: Participation and Aspirations in Chat-based Peer Support for Youth Living with HIV
- WWW (Best Paper): Towards Facilitating Empathic Conversations in Online Mental Health Support: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
- ICDT (Test of Time): Knowledge Compilation Meets Database Theory: Compiling Queries to Decision Diagrams
2020
- ASSETS (Best Student Paper): Living Disability Theory: Reflections on Access, Research, and Design
- IEEE InfoVis (Test of Time): Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data
- CRYPTO (Best Paper by Early Career Researchers): Handling Adaptive Compromise for Practical Encryption Schemes
- ACL (Best Paper): Beyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP Models with CheckList
- COMPASS (Best Paper): Can Phones Build Relationships? A Case Study of a Kenyan Wildlife Conservancy's Community Development
- ICML (Test of Time): Gaussian Process Optimization in the Bandit Setting: No Regret and Experimental Design
- ICRA (Milestone Award): Monte Carlo Localization for Mobile Robots
- IEEE S&P (Test of Time): Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile
- AAAI (Outstanding Paper): WinoGrande: An Adversarial Winograd Schema Challenge at Scale
2019
- ACSAC (Test of Time): ITS4: A Static Vulnerability Scanner for C and C++ Code
- ICCV (Test of Time): Building Rome in a Day
- CSCW (Diversity and Inclusion Award): Trust and Technology Repair Infrastructures in the Remote Rural Philippines: Navigating Urban-Rural Seams
- ASSETS 2019 (Best Student Paper): Deep Learning for Automatically Detecting Sidewalk Accessibility Problems Using Streetscape Imagery
- SOSP (Best Paper): Scaling symbolic evaluation for automated verification of systems code with Serval
- USENIX (Distinguished Paper): Computer Security and Privacy in the Interactions Between Victim Service Providers and Human Trafficking Survivors
- ISSTA (Impact Paper Award): HAMPI: A solver for string constraints
- STOC (Best Paper): Log-Concave Polynomials II: High-Dimensional Walks and an FPRAS for Counting Bases of a Matroid
- IEEE S&P (Test of Time): Pacemakers and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators: Software Radio Attacks and Zero-Power Defenses
- CHI (Best Paper): Anchored Audio Sampling: A Seamless Method for Exploring Children's Thoughts During Deployment Studies
- CHI (Best Paper): "Occupational Therapy Is Making": Clinical Rapid Prototyping and Digital Fabrication
- CHI (Best Paper): Project Sidewalk: A Web-based Crowdsourcing Tool for Collecting Sidewalk Accessibility Data at Scale
- HRI (Best Paper - Technical Advances in HRI): Transfer depends on Acquisition: Analyzing Manipulation Strategies for Robotic Feeding
- IUI (Most Impact Paper): SUPPLE: Automatically Generating User Interfaces
- SIGCSE (Best Paper): Computer Science Principles for Teachers of Blind and Visually Impaired Students
2018
- NeurIPS (Best Paper): Optimal Algorithms for Non-Smooth Distributed Optimization in Networks
- SenSys (Best Paper): 3D Localization for Sub-Centimeter Sized Devices
- DNA-24 (Best Student Paper): A Content-Addressable DNA Database with Learned Sequence Encodings
- IMWUT (Distinguished Paper): LoRa Backscatter: Enabling the Vision of Ubiquitous Connectivity
- InfoVis (Best Paper): Formalizing Visualization Design Knowledge as Constraints: Actionable and Extensible Models in Draco
- Ubicomp/Pervasive (10-Year Impact): Detecting Human Movement by Differential Air Pressure Sensing in HVAC System Ductwork: An Exploration in Infrastructure Mediated Sensing
- Ubicomp/Pervasive (10-Year Impact): Flowers or a Robot Army? Encouraging Awareness & Activity with Personal, Mobile Displays
- ISSTA (Impact Paper Award): Practical Pluggable Types for Java
- ICSE (Distinguished Paper): Generalized Data Structure Synthesis
- SIMPAR (Best Paper): Reinforcement learning for non-prehensile manipulation: Transfer from simulation to physical system
2017
- IEEE VAST (Best Paper): Visualizing Dataflow Graphs of Deep Learning Models in Tensor Flow
- Ubicomp (Test of Time): At the Flick of a Switch: Detecting and Classifying Unique Electrical Events on the Residential Power Line
- ICSE (Most Influential Paper): Feedback-directed Random Test Generation
- SIGMOD (Test of Time): Fault-Tolerance in the Borealis Distributed Stream Processing System
- ICRA (Best Robotic Vision Paper): Self-supervised Visual Descriptor Learning for Dense Correspondence
- CHI (Best Paper): Explaining the Gap: Visualizing One's Predictions Improves Recall and Comprehension of Data
- CHI (Best Paper): Examining Menstrual Tracking to Inform the Design of Personal Informatics Tools
2016
- OSDI (Best Paper): Push-Button Verification of File Systems via Crash Refinement
- EMNLP (Best Paper): Global Neural CCG Parsing with Optimality Guarantees
- ISWC (Best Paper): EyeContact: Scleral Coil Eye Tracking for Virtual Reality
- UbiComp (Best Paper): HemaApp: Noninvasive Blood Screening of Hemoglobin Using Smartphone Cameras
- HPEC (Best Student Paper): From NoSQL Accumulo to NewSQL Graphulo: Design & Utility of Graph Algorithms Inside a BigTable Database
- HPEC (Best Paper): Julia Implementation of the Dynamic Distributed Dimensional Data Model
- SIGCOMM (Best Paper): Inter-Technology Backscatter: Towards Internet Connectivity for Implanted Devices
- InfoVis (Best Paper): Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics
- SYNT (Best Student Paper): Leveraging Parallel Data Processing Frameworks with Verified Lifting
- USENIX ATC (Best Student Paper): Satellite: Joint Analysis of CDNs and Network-Level Interference
- ICRA (Best Robotic Manipulation Paper): Optimal Control with Learned Local Models: Application to Dexterous Manipulation
- SIGMOBILE (Test of Time): Place Lab: Device Positioning Using Radio Beacons in the Wild
- CHI (Best Paper): Enabling Designers to Foresee Which Colors Users Cannot See
- NSDI (Best Paper): Passive Wi-Fi: Bringing Low Power to Wi-Fi Transmissions
- CSCW (Best Paper): Boundary Negotiating Artifacts in Personal Informatics: Patient-Provider Collaboration with Patient-Generated Data
2015
- ASSETS (Best Student Paper): Social Media Platforms for Low-income Blind People in India
- UbiComp (Best Student Paper): Enhancing Mobile Apps to Use Sensor Hubs without Programmer Effort
- EMNLP (Best Paper): Broad-coverage CCG Semantic Parsing with AMR
- KDD (Test of Time): Mining High-Speed Data Streams
- IJCAI (Distinguished Paper): Recursive Decomposition for Nonconvex Optimization
- USENIX ATC (Best Paper): Latency-Tolerant Software Distributed Shared Memory
- CVPR (Best Paper): DynamicFusion: Reconstruction and Tracking of Non-rigid Scenes in Real-Time
- PLDI (Distinguished Paper): Automatically Improving Accuracy for Floating Point Expressions
- NSDI (Best Paper): Designing Distributed Systems Using Approximate Synchrony in Data Center Networks
- STOC (Best Paper): Lower Bounds on the Size of Semidefinite Programming Relaxations
Selected Journal Papers
2023
- Solar-powered shape-changing origami microfliers, Science Robotics, 13 Sep 2023 Vol 8, Issue 82
- Algorithms to estimate Shapley value feature attributions, Nature Machine Intelligence 5, 590-601 (2023)
- Multilingual translation for zero-shot biomedical classification using BioTranslator, Nature Communications 14, art. 738 (2023)
- Human-AI collaboration enables more empathic conversations in text-based peer-to-peer mental health support, Nature Machine Intelligence 5, 46-57 (2023)
2022
- Disparate impacts on online information access during the Covid-19 pandemic, Nature Communications 13, art. 7094 (2022)
- Performing tympanometry using smartphones, Nature Communications Medicine vol. 2, art. 57 (2022)
- A cost-aware framework for the development of AI models for healthcare applications, Nature Biomedical Engineering (2022)
- Wind dispersal of battery-free wireless devices, Nature (2022)
- Micro-mechanical blood clot testing using smartphones, Nature Communications, vol. 13, art. 831 (2022)
- Large-scale diet tracking data reveal disparate associations between food environment and diet, Nature Communications, vol. 13, art. 267 (2022)
2021
- Closed-loop wearable naloxone injector system, Scientific Reports, vol. 11, art. 22663 (2021)
- Scaling DNA data storage with nanoscale electrode wells, Science Advances, vol. 7, issue 48 (2021)
- Multiplexed direct detection of barcoded protein reporters on a nanopore array, Nature Biotechnology (2021)
- Molecular-level similarity search brings computing to DNA data storage, Nature Communications, vol. 12, art. 4764 (2021)
- AI for radiographic COVID-19 detection selects shortcuts over signal, Nature Machine Intelligence (31 May 2021)
- Improving performance of deep learning models with axiomatic attribution priors and expected gradients, Nature Machine Intelligence (31 May 2021)
- Towards routine, city-scale accessibility metrics: Graph theoretic interpretations of pedestrian access using personalized pedestrian network analysis, PLoS ONE, 16(3) (19 March 2021)
- Identifying with all humanity predicts cooperative health behaviors and helpful responding during COVID-19, PLoS ONE, 16(3) (10 March 2021)
- Using smart speakers to contactlessly monitor heart rhythms, Communications Biology, vol. 4, art. 319 (2021)
- Absolute and arbitrary orientation of single-molecule shapes, Science, vol. 371, issue 6531 (19 Feb 2021)
- Microbial single-cell RNA sequencing by split-pool barcoding, Science, vol. 371, issue 6531 (19 Feb 2021)
2020
- Rapid and robust assembly and decoding of molecular tags with DNA-based nanopore signatures, Nature Communications, vol. 11, art. 5454 (2020)
- Wireless steerable vision for live insects and insect-scale robots, Science Robotics, vol. 5, issue 44 (15 July 2020)
- Probing the physical limits of reliable DNA data retrieval, Nature Communications, vol. 11, art. 616 (2020)
- Controlling for Participants' Viewing Distance in Large-Scale, Psychophysical Online Experiments, Nature Scientific Reports vol. 10, art. 904 (2020)
- From local explanations to global understanding with explainable AI for trees, Nature Machine Intelligence (17 January 2020)
2019
- Consumer-grade fabrication and its potential to revolutionize accessibility, Communications of the ACM, 62 (10), 64-75 (24 September 2019)
- Modeling other minds: Bayesian inference explains human choices in group-decision making, Science Advances, vol. 5, no. 11 (27 November 2019)
- Assessment of Machine Learning of Breast Pathology Structures for Automated Differentiation of Breast Cancer and High-Risk Proliferative Lesions, JAMA Network Open, 2(8):e19877 (9 August 2019)
- DNA assembly for nanopore data storage readout, Nature Communications, vol. 10, art. 2933 (2019)
- Contactless cardiac arrest detection using smart devices, npj Digital Medicine, 2, art. 52 (2019)
- De novo protein design by citizen scientists, Nature (5 June 2019)
- Detecting middle ear fluid using smartphones, Science Translational Medicine, vol. 11, issue 492 (15 May 2019)
- Molecular digital data storage using DNA, Nature Reviews Genetics (8 May 2019)
- BrainNet: A Multi-Person Brain-to-Brain Interface for Direct Collaboration Between Brains, Nature Scientific Reports, vol. 9, art. 6115 (2019)
- High density DNA data storage library via hydration with digital microfluidic retrieval, Nature Communications, vol. 10, art. 1706 (2019)
- Demonstration of end-to-end automation of DNA data storage, Nature Scientific Reports, vol. 9, art. 4998 (2019)
- AIControl: Replacing matched control experiments with machine learning improves ChIP-seq peak identification, Nucleic Acids Research, gkz156 (14 March 2019)
- Opioid overdose detection using smartphones, Science Translational Medicine, vol. 11, issue 474 (9 Jan 2019)
2018
- Explainable AI predicts blood-oxygen levels during anaesthesia, Nature Biomedical Engineering, vol. 2, pp. 749–760 (2018)
- Single-cell profiling of the developing mouse brain and spinal cord with split-pool barcoding, Science, vol. 360, issue 6385, pp. 176-182 (13 Apr 2018)
- Random access in large-scale DNA data storage, Nature Biotechnology, vol. 36, pp. 242–248 (2018)
- A machine learning approach to integrate big data for precision medicine in acute myeloid leukemia, Nature Communications, vol. 9, art. 42 (2018)
2017 & Earlier
- A spatially localized architecture for fast and modular DNA computing, Nature Nanotechnology, vol. 12, pp. 920–927 (2017)
- Determining crystal structures through crowdsourcing and coursework, Nature Communications, vol. 7, art. 12549 (2016)
- Navigating a 2D virtual world using direct brain stimulation, Frontiers in Robotics and AI (16 November 2016)
- A direct brain-to-brain interface in humans, PLOS ONE (5 November 2014)
- Conditionally fluorescent molecular probes for detecting single base changes in double-stranded DNA, Nature Chemistry, vol. 5, pp. 782–789 (2013)
- Increased Diels-Alderase activity through backbone remodeling guided by Foldit players, Nature Biotechnology, vol. 30, pp. 190–192 (2012)
- Crystal structure of a monomeric retroviral protease solved by protein folding game players, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, vol. 18, pp. 1175–1177 (2011)