Allen School News

When Computer Science major Mitali Palekar graduates next month, she can start a new chapter as a software engineer at LinkedIn knowing that she has made a difference in the community she has called home for the past four years. An accomplished student researcher, mentor and campus leader, Palekar has combined her love of programming and a passion for diversity to elevate the voices of students around her and help build a more welcoming and inclusive community within the field… Read more →

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Professor Yin Tat Lee of the Allen School’s Theory of Computation group has been named a 2019 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow. Since 2005, Microsoft has used its Faculty Fellowship program to recognize promising, early-career researchers whose exceptional research talent makes them emerging leaders in their fields. Lee, who joined the University of Washington faculty in 2017, is one of only five recipients selected by Microsoft this year from universities and colleges across North America. Lee was recognized for his… Read more →

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The Allen School family is mourning the loss of our friend and colleague Hellmut Golde, who passed away earlier this month after a brave battle against cancer. As one of the founding members of the Computer Science Group at the University of Washington and leader of the team that developed the wildly successful VAX Pascal compiler, Golde’s legacy includes the emergence of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science &… Read more →

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Four Allen School undergraduates are among the 2019 class of the Husky 100, a program that recognizes students from across the University of Washington’s three campuses who are making the most of their Husky Experience — both inside and outside of the classroom. This year’s honorees from the Allen School exemplify a commitment to academic excellence, campus leadership, and service to the community that are the hallmarks of a Husky 100 student. Caleb Ellington Caleb Ellington is originally from… Read more →

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Allen School Ph.D. candidate Kira Goldner has received a Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation to advance her work on algorithmic mechanism design for social good. Goldner, who works with professor Anna Karlin in the Allen School’s Theory of Computation group, will take up a postdoc position hosted by professor Tim Roughgarden at Columbia University following her graduation from the University of Washington this spring. Throughout her studies, Goldner has often focused on theoretical problems… Read more →

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For the past three years, researchers in the Molecular Information Systems Laboratory (MISL) have been on a mission to store the world’s digital data in DNA. A partnership between the University of Washington and Microsoft, the lab has already sparked the imagination of artists, archivists, scientists, and the public with its vision to move beyond traditional data storage… Read more →

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Allen School alumnus Krzysztof Gajos (Ph.D., ‘08) and professor Daniel Weld were recognized with the Most Impact Paper Award at the Association for Computing Machinery’s 24th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2019) last month for “SUPPLE: Automatically Generating User Interfaces.” Each year, the IUI organizing committee selects a past paper submitted to the conference that has had the greatest impact and visibility since its initial publication. This year’s winning paper,… Read more →

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University of Washington professor Shwetak Patel has been named the recipient of the 2018 ACM Prize in Computing from the Association for Computing Machinery. Patel, who holds a joint appointment in the Paul G. Allen School and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and also leads a team at Google, is being honored by the ACM for “contributions to creative and practical sensing systems for sustainability and health.” The ACM Prize in Computing recognizes early or mid-career computer scientists… Read more →

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In yet another example of how computation is transforming biology and medicine, Allen School researchers have developed a machine learning-based system that improves upon a widely used technique for analyzing interactions between DNA and the proteins that regulate gene expression. In a paper published in Nucleic Acids Research, Ph.D. students… Read more →

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The University of Washington community mourns the loss of our friend and colleague, Vikram Jandhyala, a committed educator, innovator, and entrepreneurial leader who made a lasting impact on our campus culture and the community. In addition to his teaching and research, Jandhyala left his mark through his tireless efforts to mentor faculty and students and help translate research into real-world impact via UW CoMotion. He will also be remembered for his enthusiastic leadership of new and innovative partnerships… Read more →

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