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Stories about the Allen School’s people, research and impact.
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September 1, 2026 -
Allen School News
Allen School faculty recognized 2025 alumni Wei and Zhu for their outstanding doctoral dissertation research identifying new methods for tackling online harassment introducing more secure techniques for generating digital signatures, respectively.
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August 27, 2026 -
GeekWire
Allen School alum Cory Black (B.S., ‘18) left a career in tech behind when he literally ran off to join the circus. Now a full-time soccer freestylist, he recently took home the bronze medal from the International Jugglers’ Association Championships.
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August 26, 2026 -
Allen School News
Itani, who works with Allen School professor Shyam Gollakota in the Mobile Intelligence Lab, was recognized for exceptional early-career research advancing AI systems for “superhuman” hearing.
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August 26, 2026 -
Science World
Murphy (Ph.D., ‘96), professor and former Vice-President Research and Innovation at the University of British Columbia, will lead the Vancouver, BC organization’s efforts to engage learners in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art & design and math).
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August 13, 2026 -
Allen School News
Researchers in the Programming Languages & Software Engineering (PLSE) group introduced egg, an open-source library that uses e-graphs along with equality saturation to optimize term representations. Their paper was recently featured as a Communications of the ACM Research Highlight.
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August 7, 2026 -
HearingTracker
A technology known as semantic hearing developed in Allen School professor Shyam Gollakota's lab could let users create acoustic bubbles, isolate chosen voices, and control individual sounds in their environment.
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August 5, 2026 -
Allen School News
Li (B.S., ‘13) and his collaborators received the award for resolving a foundational problem in robust statistics, proving that a broad class of high-dimensional statistical problems can be both efficiently and robustly solved, even when some of the data has been corrupted.
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August 3, 2026 -
Allen School News
Grossman, who has served as vice director of the school for the past nine years and is a recognized leader in programming languages education and research, will succeed Magdalena Balazinska at the conclusion of her term on August 17.
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July 30, 2026 -
Allen School News
The medal from the International Mathematical Union recognizes a researcher under the age of 40 who has made outstanding contributions in the mathematical aspects of the information sciences.
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July 23, 2026 -
Quanta Magazine
Shayan Oveis Gharan, a professor in the Allen School’s Theory of Computation Group, received the 2026 IMU Abacus Medal from the International Mathematical Union for landmark contributions to the theory of algorithms.