Mohit Shridhar, a Ph.D. student working with Allen School professor Dieter Fox, has been named a 2022-2023 NVIDIA Graduate Fellow for his research in building generalizable systems for human-robot collaboration. Shridhar’s work is focused on connecting language to perception and action for vision-based robotics.
Shridhar aims to use deep learning to connect abstract concepts to concrete physical actions with long-term reasoning to develop robot butlers. The Fellowship will help him continue his work in building robots that learn… Read more →
Allen School student Mohit Shridhar earns NVIDIA Fellowship for his work in grounding language for vision-based robots
Mohit Shridhar, a Ph.D. student working with Allen School professor Dieter Fox, has been named a 2022-2023 NVIDIA Graduate Fellow for his research in building generalizable systems for human-robot collaboration. Shridhar’s work is focused on connecting language to perception and action for vision-based robotics.
Shridhar aims to use deep learning to connect abstract concepts to concrete physical actions with long-term reasoning to develop robot butlers. The Fellowship will help him continue his work in building robots that learn… Read more →
Deserts, demographics and diet: UW and Stanford researchers reveal findings of nationwide study of the relationship between food environment and healthy eating
Allen School Ph.D. student and data journalist Matthew Conlen develops interactive visualizations that help people understand what’s happening in the world
As the world watched COVID-19 grow from a mysterious virus in far-off places to a planetary pandemic, news outlets worked hard to keep the world informed on how, where and why it was spreading. At the start of the outbreak, Matthew Conlen, a Ph.D. student in the Allen School’s Interactive Data Lab, was working as a graphic/multimedia editor for the New York Times helping with their elections forecasting application, also known as “The Needle.” He switched gears… Read more →
Undergraduates Nayha Auradkar and Caiwei Tian recognized at Allen School’s annual celebration of diversity in computing
Allen School affiliated researchers sweep the Best Paper category at SOSP 2021
Researchers affiliated with the Allen School took home all three Best Paper Awards at the Association for Computing Machinery’s 28th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP). Current Ph.D. student Jacob Van Geffen, recent alumnus James Bornholt (Ph.D.,’19), former postdoc and incoming professor Simon Peter and affiliate professor Daniel Berger contributed to the winning papers that presented new advances in debugging, distributed computing and caching.
UW professor Joshua R. Smith elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors for his innovations in wireless power, communication, sensing and robotics
Professor Joshua R. Smith, who holds a joint appointment in the Allen School and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, was elected into the 2021 class of Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors for his impactful creations in the fields of wireless power, communication, sensing and robotics. Smith, who leads the Sensor Systems Lab, is one of only five University of Washington faculty members to have received this prestigious award that highlights the prolific spirit of… Read more →
Taskar Center launches first mobile version of AccessMap pedestrian trip planning tool for Android and iOS
There are many options for mapping and route planning on a smartphone, but one thing they all have in common is their car-centric nature. Those apps that do support pedestrian navigation tend to make assumptions about a user that are at best inaccurate, and at worst dangerous.
For residents and visitors in three western Washington cities, that changes today with the release of the AccessMap mobile app. The app, which was developed by the Taskar Center for Accessible Technology… Read more →
Allen School Distinguished Lecture Series explores the future of computer architecture, sustainable AI, battery-free computing and more
The Allen School is pleased to announce the 2021-22 Distinguished Lecture Series, which kicks off today. Join us over the coming season to hear from experts in microarchitecture, theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence sustainability, low-and no-power devices and a new paradigm for truly extending computer science education to all.
All lectures will take place at 3:30 p.m. in the Amazon Auditorium in the Gates Center and will be live streamed on the school’s YouTube channel.
Dec. 2: Gabriel … Read more →
Allen School’s Jennifer Mankoff wins SIGACCESS ASSETS Impact Award for her work identifying gaps in disability studies and assistive technology research
Allen School professor Jennifer Mankoff received the 2021 Impact Award from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing (SIGACCESS) for her work on “Disability studies as a source of critical inquiry for the field of assistive technology” at the 23rd International Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS). The paper, which was published in 2010, was the first to describe approaches for bridging the gap between the fields of assistive technology research and critical… Read more →
“A force of nature”: Technology leaders create endowed professorship fund in honor of Allen School professor and tech community champion Ed Lazowska
