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 →
Livestream of Allen School graduation ceremony – Friday June 9, 6:00 p.m.
The 2017 graduation ceremony of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering will be livestreamed – 6:00 p.m. on Friday June 9, beginning with an address to the graduates by Zillow Group co-founder and Executive Chairman Rich Barton. Other highlights include presentation of the 2017 Alumni Achievement Awards to A.J. Brush (Ph.D. ’02) and Hakim Weatherspoon (B.S., ’99), various other awards, the procession of Bachelors and Masters graduates, and the hooding of Bachelors graduates.
Watch at https://www.youtube.com/uwcse… Read more →
Allen School researchers shine brightly at SIGMOD
A delegation of Allen School researchers recently returned from the annual conference of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2017). Several faculty and students from the Database and Programming Languages & Software Engineering groups were recognized for their work to advance the state of the art in data management.
Ph.D. student Shumo Chu earned the Best Demo Award for his presentation of the Cosette Automated SQL Prover, a project developed… Read more →
Emily Fox recognized by Seattle chapter of Association for Women in Science
This evening, Amazon Professor of Machine Learning Emily Fox was recognized by the Seattle chapter of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) with their 2017 Award for Scientific Achievement in STEM.
AWIS writes: “Emily is an expert in machine learning and a leading researcher in redefining the scope and nature of applied statistics. She is a leader in developing computationally realistic modeling tools for complex data sets. In addition to teaching and advising at the University of Washington, she… Read more →
Allen School researchers earn Best Robotic Vision Paper at ICRA 2017
A team of researchers in the Allen School’s Robotics and State Estimation Lab earned the award for Best Robotic Vision Paper at the recent IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2017). The winning paper, “Self-supervised Visual Descriptor Learning for Dense Correspondence,” represents a significant step forward in robot learning by providing a framework for enabling robots to understand their local environments without human intervention.
In order for robots to operate safely and effectively in dynamic environments,… Read more →
Honoring Richard Ladner
Richard Ladner joined the Computer Science Group at the University of Washington in 1971 – 45 years ago this past fall.
Richard was first a leader in theoretical computer science and then a leader in accessibility. He has supervised or co-supervised 27 Ph.D. students with 4 more in the pipeline. He has also supervised the research of more than 100 undergraduate students, 23 of whom won Mary Gates Research Scholarships, and 2 who won CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards. He… Read more →
Allen School’s Shyam Gollakota is GeekWire’s “Geek of the Week”
“Shyam Gollakota envisions a future in which his research and technological breakthroughs will transform computing as we know it. It’s a powerful prediction, and it’s based on the consumption of less power.
“Gollakota, a co-founder of Jeeva Wireless and an assistant professor in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, is a leader in the field of wireless networking. He was named one of MIT Technology Review’s innovators under 35 in 2014; part of the Popular Science “Brilliant … Read more →