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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 →
April 17, 2019
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 →
April 16, 2019
Researchers in the Molecular Information Systems Laboratory are exploring new capabilities in digital microfluidics, programming, and automation to advance DNA data storage
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 →
April 15, 2019
Krzysztof Gajos (left) and Daniel Weld
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 →
April 15, 2019
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 →
April 3, 2019
The AIControl framework leverages hundreds of publicly available control datasets to improve the quality and efficiency of peak identification in ChIP-seq experiments, a popular technique for analyzing DNA-protein interactions.
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 →
April 2, 2019
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 →
March 21, 2019
The team behind the Allen School’s TVM framework, an end-to-end compiler stack which enables the rapid deployment of deep learning on a variety of platforms and devices, is marking a new milestone in the project’s development with its transition to the non-profit Apache Software Foundation.
The Apache open-source developer community focuses on incubating open-source software projects for the public good. By adding TVM to its incubator portfolio, Apache will ensure that the already popular framework will continue… Read more →
March 18, 2019
Allen School Ph.D. student Venkatesh Potluri has earned a 2019 Google Lime Scholarship, which recognizes and supports students with disabilities who demonstrate the qualities of leadership, commitment to academic excellence, and passion for computer science and technology. Potluri, who is blind, is in his first year at the Allen School working on human-computer interaction (HCI) and accessibility research as a member of both the Makeability Lab and Make4All Group.
While most fledgling Ph.D. students ease into research in… Read more →
March 13, 2019
Left to right: co-authors Andreas Stefik, Richard Ladner, and Sean Mealin pose with Simba the dog at SIGCSE 2019 (not pictured: William Allee).
Allen School professor Richard Ladner, a leading advocate for making computer science education accessible to all, and a team of collaborators earned a Best Paper Award for their work on “Computer Science Principles for Teachers of Blind and Visually Impaired Students” at the recent SIGCSE 2019, the flagship conference of the Association for… Read more →
March 12, 2019
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