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Professor Amy Zhang named Sloan Research Fellow
Professor Amy Zhang named Sloan Research Fellow
Professor Amy Zhang named Sloan Research Fellow

Assistive-feeding robot
Assistive-feeding robot gets a taste of real-world deployment

Allen School researchers invited people with motor impairments to help them test the Assistive Dexterous Arm outside of the lab — including community researcher Jonathan Ko, who spent five days with ADA in his home.

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Professor James Fogarty elected to SIGCHI Academy
Professor James Fogarty elected to SIGCHI Academy

Fogarty was recognized for his influential contributions to human-computer interaction spanning ubiquitous computing, interactive machine learning, accessibility, personal health informatics and more.

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Su-In Lee elected ISCB fellow
Professor Su-In Lee elected Fellow of the ISCB

The International Society for Computational Biology honored Lee for her pioneering work on explainable AI that enhances the interpretability of machine learning models in biology and health care.

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IRIS wireless vision-enabled smart ring
Researchers eye a new way to control smart home devices

IRIS is the first wireless vision-enabled smart ring that allows users to control in-home lighting, speakers and more with a simple point and click — with a tiny battery that can last all day on a single charge.

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Professor Amy Zhang named Sloan Research Fellow
Professor Amy Zhang named Sloan Research Fellow

Zhang, who leads the Allen School's Social Futures Lab, was recognized by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for advancing social computing platforms that empower people to take control of their online experiences.

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Allen School and Microsoft introduce “search engine” for medical images
Allen School and Microsoft introduce “search engine” for medical images

In a Q&A with UW News, professor Sheng Wang explained how they used generative AI to create BiomedParse, a tool for analyzing different types of medical imaging to detect systemic diseases.

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Theory professor Shayan Oveis Gharan earns NAS Michael and Sheila Held Prize
Theory professor Shayan Oveis Gharan earns NAS Michael and Sheila Held Prize

Oveis Gharan, alum Kuikui Liu (Ph.D., ‘23), and their collaborators were honored by the National Academy of Sciences for advancing our understanding of matroids and the mixing rates of Markov chains.

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Professors Brian Curless and Jeffrey Heer named ACM Fellows
Professors Brian Curless and Jeffrey Heer named ACM Fellows

Curless was recognized for contributions to 3D shape and appearance capture and computational photography, while Heer was honored for advances in data science and visualization and interactive machine learning.

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