Anyone who believes the adage “Rome wasn’t built in a day” hasn’t met the members of the Allen School’s Graphics and Imaging Laboratory (GRAIL). Ten years ago, postdoc Sameer Agarwal, Ph.D. student Ian Simon, alumnus Noah Snavely, professor Steve Seitz, and affiliate professor Richard Szeliski of Microsoft Research demonstrated how to digitally reconstruct the Italian capital in 3D using the large cache of photos shared on the internet. Last week, the team was one of… Read more →
Allen School accessibility researchers past and present shine at ASSETS 2019
Allen School researchers earn Best Paper and Distinguished Artifact awards at SOSP for Serval automated verification framework
Researchers from the Allen School’s UNSAT group took home one of two Best Paper Awards and a Distinguished Artifact Award at the Association for Computing Machinery’s 27th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2019) in Ontario, Canada last week. The winning paper, “Scaling symbolic evaluation for automated verification of systems code with Serval,” introduces a new framework for building automated verifiers for systems software.
Serval was developed by Allen School Ph.D. student and lead author Luke Nelson;… Read more →
Freshman Manoj Sarathy uses machine learning to help wildlife conservation efforts
Fall is back and so is the Allen School’s Undergrad Spotlight! This month’s student feature is Bellevue, Washington native Manoj Sarathy. Even before his arrival as part of the school’s expanded Direct to Major admissions program, the freshman computer science major was using machine learning to help environmental conservationists track and organize wildlife data. He was recently featured in the Seattle Times and on King 5 News for his work supporting wolverine recovery in Washington.
Allen School: Why did… Read more →
Uncle Phil, is that really you? Allen School researchers decode vulnerabilities in online genetic genealogy services
Manaswi Saha wins Amazon Catalyst Award to develop techniques for visualizing urban accessibility at scale
Allen School Ph.D student Manaswi Saha has won an Amazon Catalyst award to support her research on “Combining computational and visualization techniques to understand urban accessibility at scale.” The award, which comes with $10,000 of funding attached, will support Saha’s dissertation research working with Allen School professor Jon Froehlich in the Makeability Lab.
“More than 30 million people have some form of disability in the U.S. Of these, half report using mobility aids. In spite of the growing need… Read more →