A sea of student backpacks stashed outside the October 4 career fair
After several years of Covid-induced online career fairs, the Allen School returned to an in-person format this fall!
On October 4 and 6, more than 50 companies — members of the Allen School’s Industry Affiliates program — came to campus to recruit students for full-time, part-time, and internship positions. On each day, the first half of the session was devoted to Allen School students; UW students in related majors joined for the second half. In all, more than 1,000 students participated across the two days.
The fall career fairs are instrumental in connecting students with career opportunities in the local technology community. In 2021-22, the Allen School alone sent more than 60 graduates to full-time positions at Amazon, more than 50 to Google, and more than 40 each to Facebook and Microsoft. Allen School students accepted full-time positions at more than 100 tech companies in total — the vast majority in the Puget Sound region.
Dan and Galen Weld at the summit of Buck Mountain, with Glacier Peak in the background
On Saturday, Allen School Ph.D. student Galen Weld, his twin brother Adam, his father (and Allen School professor) Dan, and his mom Margaret Rosenfeld reached the 8,528-foot summit of Buck Mountain in the Glacier Peak Wilderness. With that achievement, Galen became the youngest person to summit each of the 100 highest peaks in Washington, and Dan and Galen became the first father-son team to achieve this milestone. (Dan completed his summit of Washington’s “Top 100” in 2016.)
Galen pops the cork on Champagne that Dan brought along to celebrate the achievement
The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering is proud to participate in this weekend’s tribute to Mr. Allen. We re-commit ourselves to fulfilling his vision.
On a typical day nearly 150 tradesmen and tradeswomen are at work on the Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering. Every day we marvel their amazing work, and periodically we demonstrate it with a bbq lunch and special recognition for some folks who have gone above and beyond in contributing to the great culture of the team.
Today’s event was particularly special: the first event held in the atrium of the Gates Center.
Thank you Mortenson and all your subs and their people – you’re the best! And thank you LMN for an incredible design.
This afternoon we celebrated an unprecedented clean sweep of the major awards at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture.
Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, UW Paul G. Allen School Ph.D. alumnus and UCSD CSE faculty member, received the Young Computer Architect Award from the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture, given annually to an individual who has completed his/her Ph.D. degree within the last 6 years and has made one or more outstanding, innovative research contributions. Hadi was honored “in recognition of outstanding contributions to novel computer architectures in emerging domains, especially in machine learning and approximate computing.”
Gabe Loh, Fellow Design Engineer with AMD Research in Seattle, received the ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award, given annually for an outstanding contribution to computer architecture made by an individual whose computer-related professional career started no earlier than 20 years prior to the year of the award. Gabe was honored “for outstanding contributions to the advancement of die-stacked architectures.”
Susan Eggers, UW Paul G. Allen School professor emerita, received the ACM/IEEE Computer Society Eckert-Mauchly Award, the computer architecture community’s most prestigious award. Susan was recognized “for outstanding contributions to simultaneous multithreaded processor architectures and multiprocessor sharing and coherency.”
Another indication of Seattle’s emergence as a center of information technology innovation. Read more →
Tom Cortina (CMU faculty and CS4HS instructor) shows the result of precisely following the teachers’ algorithm for making a PB&J sandwich!
Students from Human Centered Design and Engineering lead the teachers through a design exercise.
Last week marked the Allen School’s annual workshop for middle school and upper school teachers of math and science – CS4HS. Learn more here. And plan to join us next year! Read more →
Many thanks to the alums who joined us this evening to view a collection of undergraduate research projects. And congratulations to the students behind the project judged first among many outstanding projects: Camille Birch, Nicole Riley, Melissa Medsker, and Molly Bucklin for their project “An Interactive Viewer for Analyzing Folded Protein Structures,” advised by professor Larry Ruzzo.Read more →
2013 Allen School Ph.D. alum Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, an Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at UCSD (where he recently moved from Georgia Tech), today received the Young Computer Architect award from the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture.
The award, which is open to any individual who has completed his/her Ph.D. degree within the last 6 years, recognizes outstanding early-career research contributions in the field of Computer Architecture.
Hadi began his graduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin, advised Doug Burger. When Doug moved to Microsoft Research, Hadi transferred to the University of Washington, where he was co-advised by Doug and Luis Ceze. In the year of his graduation, he received the William Chan Memorial Dissertation Award for the top dissertation in the Allen School.
Hadi’s research has been recognized by four Communications of the ACM Research Highlights, four IEEE Micro Top Picks, and a Distinguished Paper Award in HPCA 2016. He has received the Air Force Young Investigator Award (2017), the Georgia Tech College of Computing Outstanding Junior Faculty Research Award (2017), two Qualcomm Research Awards (2017 and 2016), two Google Research Faculty Award (2016 and 2014), two Microsoft Research Awards (2017 and 2016), and the Lockheed Inspirational Young Faculty Award (2016).
Part of the Allen School contingent at the 2018 “Celebration with the STARS” banquet: Adilene Pulgarin, Tevin Stanley, faculty member Lauren Bricker, Kieran Hess, Joshua Quichocho, Wen Liu, and Simplicio DeLeon.
The Washington STate Academic RedShirt (STARS) program supports engineering and computer science students from low-income backgrounds and underserved high schools in navigating the transition to college-level engineering courses.
Tonight marked the fifth annual “Celebration with the STARS” banquet, and the graduation from UW of the first cohort of STARS students. 30% of the graduates are Allen School students – and 39% of the newest (fifth) cohort are headed for the Allen School!
On Thursday the Paul G. Allen School was honored to host UW’s annual reception thanking our state legislators for their investments in education.
In the case of the Allen School, recent investments include substantial support for the Bill & Melinda Gates Center – a second building that will double our space when it opens in January – and multiple years of funding for enrollment growth that have more than doubled our degree capacity. Learn more here.
In addition to state legislators and members of the Governor’s staff, attendees included UW’s Board of Regents and academic leadership, Allen School faculty and students, and representatives from Fenologica, Microsoft, Moz, Real, Tableau, Zillow, and the Washington Tech Industry Association who attended to demonstrate the importance to the region’s tech industry of investments in the Allen School. Read more →
