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Stories about the Allen School’s people, research and impact.
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February 18, 2025 -
UW News
Zhang, who leads the Allen School's Social Futures Lab, was recognized by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation with a Sloan Research Fellowship for advancing social computing platforms that empower people to take control of their online experiences.
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February 14, 2025 -
Allen School News
Curless and Heer were selected by their peers in the Association for Computing Machinery for contributions that are transforming science and society — from 3D reconstruction and computational photography, to human-centered data science, visualization and interactive machine learning.
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February 13, 2025 -
Allen School News
Oveis Gharan, a member of the Allen School's Theory group, and Ph.D. alumnus Kuikui Liu, now a professor at MIT, are among a team of researchers that received this year's Held Prize from the National Academy of Sciences for introducing a new method for counting the bases of matroids.
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January 31, 2025 -
Allen School News
Four Allen School undergraduates received honorable mentions in the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards competition for research ranging from improving farmers’ networks to help sell their products to developing innovative ways for children to interact with technology.
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January 8, 2025 -
College of Engineering
Not Afraid of Falling, a new installation in the Gates Center by mixed-media artist Glenn Kaino, appears to be suspended in time and space. But it does, in fact, move — a clever feat of art and engineering that offers an homage to robotics and a subtle meditation on the rewards of perseverance.
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January 7, 2025 -
Allen School News
Asai, a Ph.D. student in the Allen School’s H2Lab, was recognized for her pioneering work tackling the major limitations of large language models, making them increasingly useful to more people. The IU35 Japan award honors young innovators who are “working to solve global problems.”
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December 18, 2024 -
Allen School News
The student group GEN1, formed in 2020, helps first-generation students find community, connect with resources at the Allen School and University of Washington and more — all with the goal of enhancing and celebrating the first-gen experience.
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December 18, 2024 -
UW News
In this Q&A, Allen School professor Natasha Jaques explains how a new training method called variational preference learning, or VPL, can enable AI systems from ChatGPT to robots to better reflect users’ diverse values.
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December 17, 2024 -
Allen School News
Professor Gollakota, who leads the Allen School's Mobile Intelligence Lab, received the 2024 Infosys Prize in Engineering and Computer Science for his research that uses artificial intelligence to change the way we think about speech and audio.
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December 10, 2024 -
Allen School News
Researchers in the UbiComp Lab and UW Medicine earned an IMWUT Distinguished Paper Award for their work on an app that turns a smartphone into a thermometer.