Researchers in the Allen School’s Graphics & Imaging Laboratory (GRAIL) have developed a new technique that enables them to generate photorealistic videos from audio clips. The team, which includes recent Ph.D. graduate Supasorn Suwajanakorn and professors Steven Seitz and Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, demonstrated their approach by producing a video of former president Barack Obama lip-syncing audio on a range of topics, complete with natural-looking facial expressions and mouth movements.
To achieve such a lifelike result, the researchers had to overcome… Read more →
Kevin Jamieson joins Allen School faculty as Guestrin Endowed Professor in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
The Allen School continues to build its expertise in leading-edge areas of the field with the recruitment of Kevin Jamieson as the Guestrin Endowed Professor in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. Jamieson, whose research focuses on adaptive data collection algorithms for machine learning, will join the University of Washington this fall after completing a postdoc at University of California, Berkeley.
Jamieson’s research explores how to leverage already-collected data to inform what future measurements to make next, in a closed… Read more →
Allen School set to amplify UW’s leadership in human-computer interaction with new hires Jennifer Mankoff and Jon Froehlich
The University of Washington is preparing to welcome outstanding new faculty hires who will bolster its reputation as a center of human-computer interaction research and teaching. Two of the impending arrivals, Jennifer Mankoff and Jon Froehlich, will join the Allen School faculty in advancing solutions to society’s greatest challenges, focusing on accessibility, education, health, sustainability, and more.
Jennifer Mankoff will join the Allen School as the Richard E. Ladner Endowed Professor in Computer Science & Engineering. She is currently a… Read more →
Allen School’s Martin Kellogg and Calvin Loncaric excel in ACM Student Research Competition
Allen School students Martin Kellogg and Calvin Loncaric have earned national recognition as grand finalists in the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2017 Student Research Competition. The competition, which is sponsored by Microsoft, highlights exemplary student researchers and encourages their participation in top computing research conferences. Kellogg captured third place in the undergraduate category, and Loncaric placed third in the graduate category. A total of 330 students participated in this year’s competition by presenting their work at one of two… Read more →
Wait! Who’s driving the CSE2 tower crane?!?!
Check out the live webcams here, here, and here. Learn about the project here.… Read more →
Allen School showcases undergraduate course projects at inaugural end-of-year poster fair
Each year our amazing Allen School undergraduates spend many hours combining their creativity and problem-solving skills with their technical computing acumen to design and implement course projects, particularly in our senior-level courses and capstone design courses. At the end of each quarter, the Microsoft Atrium in the Paul G. Allen Center hosts a variety of course-specific poster sessions where students describe what they have accomplished. Last week, we tried something new: a school-wide, end-of-year poster session where student teams from… Read more →
Allen School’s Rajesh Rao receives Cherng Jia and Elizabeth Yun Hwang Endowed Professorship
Allen School professor Rajesh Rao has been named the Cherng Jia and Elizabeth Yun Hwang Endowed Professor at the University of Washington. The new professorship was established by the Hwangs in the UW Department of Electrical Engineering in honor of their daughter, Karen, who suffered a severe spinal cord injury in an automobile accident. The couple’s generosity will support Rao’s groundbreaking research on implantable devices to enable people suffering from paralysis to move again.
Rao is an adjunct faculty member… Read more →
Video of Paul G. Allen School graduation ceremony
Many thanks to our friends at GeekWire for posting this video of the 2017 graduation ceremony of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering!
Welcome
Rich Barton’s address to the graduates
Bachelor of Science Processional
Presentation of student awards
ACM Student Chapter Teaching Award
Undergraduate Service Award
Outstanding Undergraduate Honors Thesis Award
Outstanding Computer Science and Computer Engineering Senior Awards
Bob Bandes Memorial Excellence in Teaching Awards
Master of Science Processional
Presentation of Alumni Achievement Awards
Hooding … Read more →
Paul G. Allen School celebrates its first graduating class
Tonight marked a special milestone in the history of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, as we celebrated the first graduating class of the Paul G. Allen School and recognized the students, faculty, alumni, and friends who make the Allen School community great.
We were honored to have engineer and entrepreneur Rich Barton — founder of Expedia, co-founder and executive chairman of Zillow, and co-founder and non-executive chairman of Glassdoor — join us to help… Read more →
Allen School’s Vincent Lee and Max Willsey win Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
Allen School Ph.D. students Vincent Lee and Max Willsey have been awarded a 2017 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship for their proposal “Program Synthesis for Domain Specific Reconfigurable Accelerators.” Lee and Willsey, who were recommended by professors Ras Bodik, Luis Ceze, and Alvin Cheung, are one of only eight teams to receive a fellowship out of 33 finalists drawn from 116 original proposals received by the company.
Lee and Willsey are working with Bodik, Ceze, and Cheung on a… Read more →