Allen School professor and undergraduate alumnus Kurtis Heimerl (B.S., ’07) has been recognized with a 2018 Diamond Award from the University of Washington’s College of Engineering. Each year, the Diamond Awards recognizes alumni and friends of the college who have made significant contributions to the field of engineering. The college is honoring Heimerl with its Early Career Achievement Award, which is given each year to an outstanding graduate of the college who has made exceptional professional contributions through research,… Read more →
Balancing a research career and chronic illness: Jennifer Mankoff’s personal journey to professional success
Allen School professor Jennifer Mankoff is an award-winning researcher in human-computer interaction and accessibility. But her road to a successful academic research career was bumpier than most promising young faculty. In addition to navigating the demands of teaching and research while raising a young family — she and spouse Anind Dey, the new Dean of the University of Washington’s Information School, have two children — she had another obstacle to overcome: her health.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease… Read more →
Allen School junior Christine Betts champions creativity and diversity as GeekWire’s “Geek of the Week”
Christine Betts, a computer science major who earlier this week received the inaugural Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) Outstanding Software Engineer Scholarship for underrepresented groups, is profiled in GeekWire’s latest “Geek of the Week” feature.
Betts, who hails from Kansas City, Missouri, is an active contributor to the Allen School community, serving as a teaching assistant for our popular introductory programming courses and engaging in undergraduate research in the Molecular Information Systems Lab. In talking about her… Read more →
Vikram Iyer wins 2018 Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship
Vikram Iyer, a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering who works with professor Shyam Gollakota in the Allen School’s Networks & Mobile Systems Lab, has earned a prestigious Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship. He is one of only 10 graduate students from across North America to be selected as a member of the class of 2018 fellows.
The Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship program is designed to promote the careers of promising student researchers in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics,… Read more →
Christine Betts receives inaugural Allen AI Outstanding Engineer Scholarship
This afternoon the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) awarded the inaugural Allen AI Outstanding Engineer Scholarship for women and underrepresented minorities to Allen School undergraduate Christine Betts.
The Allen Institute for AI created this scholarship to encourage underrepresented groups to excel in computer science and engineering, and become leaders and role models in their fields. The scholarship covers full tuition, fees, and textbooks for one academic year. It is accompanied by mentorship and a paid summer internship at AI2.… Read more →
Allen School launches UW Reality Lab to advance augmented and virtual reality research
The Allen School has partnered with leading technology companies to create a new academic research center aimed at advancing the state of the art in augmented and virtual reality. The UW Reality Lab, which launched today with $6 million in funding provided by Facebook, Google, and Huawei, will focus on the pursuit of leading-edge research and educating the next generation of innovators in this burgeoning field. The center will build upon the Allen School’s established leadership in computer vision… Read more →
UW researchers “MERGE” machine learning and medicine to enable targeted treatment of cancer
In the latest example of computing’s potential to transform health care, a team of researchers at the Allen School, UW Department of Genome Sciences, and UW Medicine is applying a combination of machine learning and big data to improve outcomes for cancer patients. The team’s approach, detailed in a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications, helps physicians deliver targeted treatment to patients based on their individual molecular profiles.
Allen School and Genome Sciences professor Su-In Lee, first… Read more →
Wheelchair-using Allen School alums Doug Ferry, Chris Schlechty featured by Google, Microsoft
In a remarkable coincidence, Google and Microsoft each published articles describing the accomplishments of wheelchair-using computer scientists in their engineering organizations – each of whom is an Allen School alum.
Doug Ferry, ’91, is quadriplegic as a result of a bodysurfing accident when he was 20 years old. He steers a motorized chair with his head and codes with a mouth stick. He spent 18 years at Microsoft before moving to Google 18 months ago. Read more about Doug in… Read more →
Paul G. Allen’s “7 Biggest Moments of 2017”
“In March of 2017, the University of Washington elevated its Department of Computer Science & Engineering to a school and honored Allen by naming it in his honor. Growing up as the son of the university’s Associate Director of Libraries, Allen spent hours and hours at the university not only devouring piles of books but honing his computer skills in the graduate computer lab. UW was also the place where Allen and Bill Gates created Traf-O-Data laying the groundwork for… Read more →
“Topping out” celebration for new Bill & Melinda Gates Center heralds next phase of Allen School expansion and impact
Nearly 300 members of the Allen School’s extended community gathered earlier this month to celebrate two exciting milestones for the new Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering currently under construction across the street from the Paul G. Allen Center: the “topping out” of the steel structure, and the conclusion of fundraising for the project thanks to a $15 million gift from Bill and Melinda Gates. With this step completed, the Allen School is now able to… Read more →