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April 14, 2025 -
Allen School News
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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April 9, 2025 -
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Andre Ye taught himself deep learning on his way to enrolling in the UW at age 15. Ye, who majored in computer science and philosophy, won a 2025 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship to support pursuit of his Ph.D. focused on AI tools for critical thinking in the textual social sciences.
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April 8, 2025 -
GeekWire
The company, co-founded by Allen School professor Joshua Smith, received its second major 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its Paradigm AI surgical guidance platform to include intraoperative measurements — enabling surgeons to measure success in real-time.
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April 2, 2025 -
Allen School News
For her groundbreaking research on explainable AI for biology and medicine, Lee, who directs the UW’s AI for bioMedical Sciences Lab, was named a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).
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March 31, 2025 -
Oregon Public Broadcasting
The lived experiences of people with disabilities are often ignored in the development of new technologies, but that’s not the case with the Allen School’s ADA project. Community researcher Jonathan Ko joined recent Ph.D. alum Amal Nanavati to discuss their collaboration.
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March 25, 2025 -
UW News
The Taskar Center for Accessible Technology created the first statewide data set enabling communities across Washington to map pedestrian infrastructure and transit access — which paves the way for exploring other questions such as access to schools, grocery stores and health care.
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March 24, 2025 -
UW Aeronautics & Astronautics
Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics researchers teamed up with Taskar Center Director Anat Caspi and computer engineering major Marc Alwan to explore how eye-tracking can help autonomous systems adapt their interactions to individual users’ comfort and safety preferences.
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March 13, 2025 -
GeekWire
An entrepreneurship class led by Allen School professor Ed Lazowska and Greg Gottesman of Pioneer Square Labs teaches University of Washington students the ins and outs of building a tech company, culminating in the opportunity to pitch their startup ideas to local investors.
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March 5, 2025 -
Allen School News
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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March 4, 2025 -
UW News
Researchers in the Allen School’s Personal Robotics Lab invited people with motor impairments to help them test the Assistive Dexterous Arm in real-world scenarios — including community researcher Jonathan Ko, who spent five days with ADA in his home.