Allen School
The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington educates tomorrow's innovators while developing solutions to humanity's greatest challenges.
- Picture this! #UWAllen professor Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman was recently named an #IEEEFellow for her pioneering work on face, body and clothing modeling from large image collections — including efforts to bring virtual try-on technology into the mainstream. news.cs.washington.edu/2026/02/03/a...
- #UWAllen #AI researchers have found that #LLMs tend to all generate similar outputs to real-world, open-ended queries — as if they are part of an “Artificial Hivemind. Their paper revealing this critical limitation was a @neuripsconf.bsky.social Best Paper. news.cs.washington.edu/2026/01/22/a...
- In 2009, @uofwa.bsky.social #UWAllen researchers examined how people with disabilities adapt and use mobile devices. Their findings helped spur innovations in device #accessibility — and earned a @sigaccess.bsky.social ASSETS Paper Impact Award. #a11y #UWserves news.cs.washington.edu/2026/01/07/u...
- “Big Tech is throwing huge amounts of data and compute at the problem—we’re taking the opposite approach.” @gshyam.bsky.social spoke to @wired.com about how #UWAllen spinout Hearvana uses #AI to enable people to go beyond noise canceling to customize their soundscape. www.wired.com/story/welcom...
- From recyclable electronics to #AI for estimating carbon footprints (and more), #UWAllen student Zhihan Zhang is using his Google Ph.D. Fellowship to advance sustainable ubiquitous computing for healthy people and a healthy planet. #ThisIsUW #AIforGood news.cs.washington.edu/2025/12/17/a...
- “We forget how complicated these physical manipulation tasks are. You have to be simultaneously forceful and delicate.” @uofwa.bsky.social #UWAllen professor Sidd Srinivasa on getting to grips with one of the biggest challenges in #robotics: www.engr.washington.edu/news/article... #ICYMI #ThisIsUW
- If you’re tired of trying to hear people in a crowd, how does this sound? A team of @uofwa.bsky.social #UWAllen researchers developed #AI headphones that automatically identify and isolate the wearer’s conversation partner in real time. 👂 #ThisIsUW #AIforGood www.washington.edu/news/2025/12...
- We’re proud to be named a “Top Dawg in Safety” by @uofwa.bsky.social Environmental Health & Safety for 2025! Thanks to the #UWAllen Facilities team, Robotics Lab, Fabrication Research Lab, MISL and all our research labs for putting safety first for colleagues! www.ehs.washington.edu/about/latest...
- What time is it? It’s GigaTIME! @msftresearch.bsky.social, Providence & #UWAllen researchers recently unveiled an #AI tool that generates detailed cancer tumor data at scale from standard pathology slides—at a fraction of the time and cost of prior methods: www.geekwire.com/2025/microso... #ThisIsUW
- Let them cook: To explore if #AI agents can adapt to different cultures, #UWAllen researchers fed them data from a kitchen simulation game and found the AI learned cultural values from observing human behavior—like children do. @plosone.org #HCI #AIforGood www.washington.edu/news/2025/12...
- When what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a roving tree chased by a robot reindeer…🤖 🎄 Happy howl-idays, Huskies, from Spot & friends in the @uofwa.bsky.social #UWAllen Robotics Lab! Have a roaring good time over break, and see you next year. 🦖 (Watch to the end 🐕!) @burkemuseum.bsky.social
- Can smart technologies help people experiencing homelessness? #UWAllen prof @kurti.sh and postdoc Esther Jang worked with tiny house villages in Seattle to explore their potential for managing infrastructure and other community needs. #ThisIsUW #CSCW #HCI #IoT news.cs.washington.edu/2025/12/04/a...
- In 2023, #UWAllen researchers introduced GlucoScreen, a tool for prediabetes screening with a smartphone. Now, postdoc Jason Hoffman is working to put a plug-and-play app into the hands of clinicians and people at risk. #diabetesawarenessmonth💙 #UWinnovates www.engr.washington.edu/news/article...
- Congratulations to @uofwa.bsky.social #UWAllen programming team Jiakrico on their 1st place finish at the @icpc.bsky.social Pacific Northwest Regional Contest earlier this month! Next up: The North America Championship in March. 🎉🏆 Final standings: pnw.na.icpc.global/scoreboard/2...
- #UWAllen is celebrating #CSEdWeek early! Middle and high school students are invited to join us for virtual and in-person activities Dec. 1-5. Learn about #AI, build your own website, and get information on applying to the @uofwa.bsky.social Allen School! #CSPowersAI #CSforAll #STEMeducation 1/3
- It’s #AlzheimersAwareness Month! #UWAllen prof @katharinareinecke.bsky.social and @labinthewild.bsky.social are part of the Open Measures Network Initiative for #Alzheimers Disease and Related #Dementia Research and Prevention creating digital tools for early detection: www.psu.edu/news/health-...
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- In 2015, @jheer.org and #UWAllen @idl.uw.edu colleagues unveiled Voyager, a tool that automatically recommends visualizations to aid users exploring datasets. They received the @ieeevis.bsky.social InfoVis 10-Year Test of Time Award for that work. #UWInnovates news.cs.washington.edu/2025/11/19/a...
- An #AI job apocalypse on the horizon? @uofwa.bsky.social President Robert Jones doesn’t think so. “AI is just an amazing tool, and we’re doing work here to try to make sure that our students are getting as comprehensive an education as possible.” Via @geekwire.com: www.geekwire.com/2025/new-uw-...
- #UWAllen prof @nlpnoah.bsky.social will be the new vice provost for artificial intelligence and Charles & Lisa Simonyi Endowed Chair for Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Technologies thanks to a $10M gift supporting @uofwa.bsky.social's global leadership in #AI. www.washington.edu/news/2025/11...
- Join us today at 3:30 pm PST at @uofwa.bsky.social or online for our first Distinguished Lecture of 2025-26, featuring @hoifungpoon.bsky.social of @msftresearch.bsky.social on “Learning the Language of Patients: Multimodal Generative #AI for Precision Health." www.cs.washington.edu/news-events/...
- To mark the National First-Generation College Celebration on Nov. 8, we asked @uofwa.bsky.social #UWAllen students and faculty to share their experience being first and what advice they have for others on their #FirstGen journey. #CelebrateFirstGen #UWFirstGen news.cs.washington.edu/2025/11/10/f...
- Attendees at #UWAllen's Research Showcase this week got a peek at exciting projects our researchers are working on in #AI, #HCI, #robotics and more — and a new initiative tackling a set of grand challenges where we are uniquely positioned to lead. Via @geekwire.com: www.geekwire.com/2025/inside-...
- This year’s @technologyreview.com #TR35 Asia Pacific features a trio of #UWAllen researchers: Professors Simon Shaolei Du & @ranjaykrishna.bsky.social and Ph.D. alum @sewonm.bsky.social! Read about their contributions to #AI, #LLMs, computer vision and more: news.cs.washington.edu/2025/10/29/a...
- From air travel to social media, network outages can be chaotic and costly. #UWAllen's @ratul.bsky.social received the 2025 #SIGCOMM #Networking Systems Award for his work on Batfish, a network configuration analysis tool to prevent disruptions. #FacultyFriday news.cs.washington.edu/2025/10/08/a...
- Congratulations to @uofwa.bsky.social #UWAllen’s Zhihan Zhang on earning a Google PhD Fellowship for his work on #AI agents that turn sensor data into actionable insights for improving health and well-being, with a focus on #sustainability. #HuskyExperience #HCI #PhDlife blog.google/outreach-ini...
- We're proud to have 7 #UWAllen Ph.D. students named among the inaugural cohort of #AmazonAIFellowship recipients at @uofwa.bsky.social! Their research will drive the future of #AI innovation to solve real-world problems: www.amazon.science/news/amazon-... #HuskyExperience #AIforGood 1/2
- #UWAllen alum @akariasai.bsky.social spent her #HuskyExperience advancing techniques to reduce #LLM hallucinations. Currently a research scientist at @ai2.bsky.social, she was recently named among @technologyreview.com’s 35 Innovators Under 35: news.cs.washington.edu/2025/10/02/p... #TR35 #AI #NLP
- Three(!!!) @uofwa.bsky.social #UWAllen students were among the recipients of 2025 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowships this summer. The winning teams are advancing user-scheduled programming languages and multi-modal #AI agents, respectively. #ResearchMakesAmerica news.cs.washington.edu/2025/09/18/t...
- “Technology is never culturally neutral.” #UWAllen professor @katharinareinecke.bsky.social had her own experience of “digital culture shock” early in her career, which inspired her future research direction and her new book from @princetonupress.bsky.social: www.washington.edu/news/2025/09... 1/2
- If you’re fascinated by the intersection of technology & culture, #UWAllen professor @katharinareinecke.bsky.social will talk about her new book, “Digital Culture Shock,” at Ada’s Technical Books & Cafe in Seattle on Tue., Sept. 23: adasbooks.com/event/2025-0... #AI #HCI @princetonupress.bsky.social
- Medical #AI errors “can directly impact people’s health and even determine life-altering outcomes.” In @natrevbioeng.nature.com, @chanwoo-kim.bsky.social @sohamgadgil.bsky.social & @suinlee.bsky.social discuss the importance of transparency in medical models. www.washington.edu/news/2025/09...
- To help moderators make data-driven decisions on what rules are best for their online communities, #UWAllen researchers conducted the largest-to-date analysis of 67,000+ Reddit rules—and earned the @icwsm.bsky.social Best Paper Award. #ResearchMakesAmerica #HCI news.cs.washington.edu/2025/09/10/a...
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- "The sky is not falling": With all the chatter about computer science graduates and employment in the #AI era, professors Magda Balazinska and @dangrossmanseattle.bsky.social examine the myths and realities surrounding AI and the prospects for #UWAllen majors. news.cs.washington.edu/2025/09/09/m...
- When it comes to #AI, “much of this technology is not yet ready for primetime,” @uofwa.bsky.social #UWAllen’s @edlazowska.bsky.social said. But as a self-professed optimist, he believes we can—and should—maximize its positive uses and help all students to become fluent in it. tvw.org/video/inside...
- Companies are pouring billions into humanoid #robotics. In a new @spectrum.ieee.org op-ed, #UWAllen professor @mayacakmak.bsky.social wonders whether people would really welcome such robots into their homes — and looks forward to taking one for a spin for science. spectrum.ieee.org/home-humanoi...
- In 2011, a team of #UWAllen and @ucsandiego.bsky.social researchers showed how they could remotely hack into a car. Their work inspired new motor vehicle security standards to put the brakes on cyberattacks—and earned a #USENIX2025 Test of Time Award. #UWserves news.cs.washington.edu/2025/08/26/a...
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- #UWAllen @uofwa.bsky.social alum Aatish Parson has hit a few bumps in the road since graduation—all the better for building his #AI driven app, CivicScan, that detects potholes and other issues to smooth the way for improved road maintenance. Via @geekwire.com: www.geekwire.com/2025/eyes-an...
- “Advances in #AI are going to impact employment in many sectors, and everybody needs to be aware.” #UWAllen’s @edlazowska.bsky.social spoke to @kuow.org about how the “alarmist gloom and doom” around tech employment and the prospects for #CS majors is misplaced: www.kuow.org/stories/does...
- Heading to the Seattle Design Festival this weekend? Sat., Aug. 16, pop by @taskarcenter.bsky.social's pop-up experience, Mapping Belonging, to explore the future of mobility with sidewalk-themed games, live mapping tools and more! seattledesidev.wpengine.com/events/2025/... #accessibility #a11y 1/2
- “Noise cancellation is a blunt tool, because either you shut everything off, or you let everything in,” #UWAllen professor @gshyam.bsky.social told @slate.com. If you'd like to set your soundscape with precision, an #AI enabled sound bubble might be music to your ears: slate.com/technology/2...
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- We're thrilled to be working with colleagues at project lead @ai2.bsky.social and academic partners @unm.edu, University of Hawai'i at Hilo, and University of New Hampshire on this exciting #NSFfunded project that will create open #AI tools to support scientists and their groundbreaking work. 👇
- #UWAllen teamed up with @ai2.bsky.social and other academic partners on a new project aimed at developing the first fully open set of #AI tools to accelerate scientific discovery, with $152M in combined support from NSF & NVIDIA. #NSFfunded #UWserves news.cs.washington.edu/2025/08/14/a... 1/2
- More walking can be a path to better health. A countrywide study by @uofwa.bsky.social #UWAllen professor Tim Althoff in @nature.com found the strongest evidence to date that daily step count is influenced by the built environment. #DataScience #PopulationHealth www.washington.edu/news/2025/08...
