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Distinguished Lecture Series

The Allen School’s Distinguished Lecture Series features luminaries from the world of science and technology sharing their insights into future directions of research and what it means to the field of computing and to our society. Members of the UW community and the public are welcome! We also live-stream the events on YouTube.

Upcoming Distinguished Lecture Events

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All Events

For a complete historical list of all distinguished lecturers at the Allen School, see this page.

Craig Mundie (Mundie & Associates) January 7, 2025

Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit

Marc Raibert (The AI Institute) November 21, 2024

Dynamic Robots Today and Tomorrow

Larry Zitnick (Meta, Inc.) November 14, 2024

The Frontiers of Modeling Atoms with AI

Persi Diaconis (Stanford University) November 1, 2024

The Value (and Pitfalls) of Proof

Jitendra Malik (UC Berkeley + Meta Inc.) October 31, 2024

Robot Learning, with inspiration from child development

Ryan Williams (MIT CSAIL) October 24, 2024

A Dogged Pursuit For Satisfaction

Andrew Owens (University of Michigan) October 18, 2024

Generating Multi-View Visual Illusions

Emily Mower Provost (University of Michigan) October 10, 2024

From Speech to Emotion to Mood: Mental Health Modeling in Natural Environments

Richard Ladner (Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering) May 9, 2024

The Impact of AccessComputing

Banghua Zhu (UC Berkeley) April 9, 2024

Towards Principled Post-Training of Large Language Models

Lianmin Zheng (UC Berkeley) April 8, 2024

Scalable and Efficient Systems for Large Language Models

Emma Dauterman (UC Berkeley) March 28, 2024

Secure systems from insecure components

Rachit Nigam (Cornell University) March 25, 2024

Modular Abstractions for Hardware Design

Manoel Ribeiro (EPFL) March 7, 2024

Content Curation in Online Platforms

Xupeng Miao (Carnegie Mellon University) March 5, 2024

Architecture-Tailored Parallelization for Accessible Large Model Era

Serina Chang (Stanford University) February 13, 2024

Computational methods for human networks and high-stakes decisions

Kyunghyun Cho (New York University | Genentech) February 8, 2024

Beyond Test Accuracies for Studying Deep Neural Networks

Joshua Miele (Amazon Lab126 | UC Berkeley) February 1, 2024

Accessibility in the Open – Driving global disability equity through open source

Drago Anguelov (Waymo) January 25, 2024

Toward Total Scene Understanding for Autonomous Driving

Fei-Fei Li (Stanford University) January 18, 2024

What we see and what we value: AI with a human perspective

Various Presenters (Allen School) January 11, 2024

NLP Research Lab

Martin Tompa (Emeritus, Allen School) January 4, 2024

Valedictory: Who Am I?

Various Presenters (Allen School) December 7, 2023

MISL Research Lab

Liang Huang (Oregon State University | Coderna.ai) November 30, 2023

Language AI for RNA Virus and RNA Vaccine

Bill Dally (NVIDIA) November 9, 2023

Trends in Deep Learning Hardware

Various Presenters (Allen School) November 2, 2023

Accessibility Research Lab

Various Presenters (Allen School) October 26, 2023

GRAIL Research Lab

Byron Cook (Amazon | AWS) October 12, 2023

On making mathematic proof a business

Dan Weld (Emeritus, Allen School | Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence) October 5, 2023

Intelligence Augmentation: Effective Human-AI Interaction to Supercharge Scientific Research