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Our researchers are driving innovation across the entire hardware, software and network stack to make computer systems more reliable, efficient and secure.

From internet-scale networks, to next-generation chip designs, to deep learning frameworks and more, we build and refine the devices and applications that individuals, industries and, indeed, entire economies depend upon every day.

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Tom Anderson

Faculty


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Aleksandr Aravkin

Adjunct Faculty


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Les Atlas

Adjunct Faculty


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Jean-Loup Baer

Emeritus Faculty


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Magdalena Balazinska

Faculty


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Leilani Battle

Faculty


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David Beck

Adjunct Faculty


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Gilbert Bernstein

Faculty


Portrait of Rastislav Bodik

Rastislav Bodik

Faculty


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Karl Böhringer

Adjunct Faculty


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Alan Borning

Emeritus Faculty


Portrait of Luis Ceze

Luis Ceze

Faculty


Portrait of Andrea Coladangelo

Andrea Coladangelo

Faculty


Portrait of Andrew Connolly

Andrew Connolly

Adjunct Faculty


Portrait of Carl Ebeling

Carl Ebeling

Emeritus Faculty


Portrait of Susan Eggers

Susan Eggers

Emeritus Faculty


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Michael Ernst

Faculty


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Elba Garza

Faculty


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Dan Grossman

Faculty


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Scott Hauck

Adjunct Faculty


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Jeffrey Heer

Faculty


Portrait of Kurtis Heimerl

Kurtis Heimerl

Faculty


Portrait of Bruce Hemingway

Bruce Hemingway

Emeritus Faculty


Portrait of Bill Howe

Bill Howe

Adjunct Faculty


Portrait of Vikram Iyer

Vikram Iyer

Faculty


Portrait of Lalit Jain

Lalit Jain

Adjunct Faculty


Portrait of René Just

René Just

Faculty


Portrait of Baris Kasikci

Baris Kasikci

Faculty


Portrait of Amy Ko

Amy J. Ko

Adjunct Faculty


Portrait of David Kohlbrenner

David Kohlbrenner

Faculty


Portrait of Yoshi Kohno

Yoshi Kohno

Faculty


Portrait of Arvind Krishnamurthy

Arvind Krishnamurthy

Faculty


Portrait of Ed Lazowska

Ed Lazowska

Faculty


Portrait of Hank Levy

Hank Levy

Emeritus Faculty


Portrait of Rachel Lin

Huijia (Rachel) Lin

Faculty


Portrait of Ryan Maas

Ryan Maas

Faculty


Portrait of Ratul Mahajan

Ratul Mahajan

Faculty


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Chinmay Nirkhe

Faculty


Portrait of Mark Oskin

Mark Oskin

Faculty


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Simon Peter

Faculty


Portrait of Matt Reynolds

Matt Reynolds

Adjunct Faculty


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Franziska Roesner

Faculty


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Alan Shaw

Emeritus Faculty


Portrait of Joshua Smith

Joshua Smith

Faculty


Portrait of Michael Stiber

Michael Stiber

Adjunct Faculty


Portrait of Dan Suciu

Dan Suciu

Faculty


Portrait of Zachary Tatlock

Zachary Tatlock

Faculty


Portrait of Michael Taylor

Michael Bedford Taylor

Faculty


Portrait of Stefano Tessaro

Stefano Tessaro

Faculty


Portrait of Nirvan Tyagi

Nirvan Tyagi

Faculty


Portrait of Stephanie Wang

Stephanie Wang

Faculty


Portrait of James Wilcox

James R. Wilcox

Faculty


Portrait of John Zahorjan

John Zahorjan

Emeritus Faculty

Highlights

Allen School News

Alum's $3M gift will advance Allen School research and student success


Portrait of Armon Dadgar and Joshua Kalla in a grove of trees

Armon Dadgar (B.S., ‘11) co-founded the high-flying cloud company HashiCorp inspired by an undergraduate research project. Now he and partner Joshua Kalla hope to sow the seeds of the next HashiCorp with a new professorship and support for a new generation of innovators and entrepreneurs.



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Allen School News

Ph.D. student Kyle Deeds earns ICDT Best Paper Awards


Installation view at ON AIR, Tomás Saraceno's solo exhibition at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2018.

Deeds introduced partition constraints, a new approach for making conjunctive query executions more efficient. He presented the research at the 28th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT), earning both the Best Student Paper and Best Paper Awards.



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Allen School News

Researchers transform illusion knitting using computation


An example of illusion knitting showing a gray slate transform to the Mona Lisa.

A team of Allen School researchers introduced computational illusion knitting — a design framework that helps automate the process, making illusion knitting more accessible and allowing for more complex and multi-view patterns like hidden Mona Lisas that were previously believed to be impossible.



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