Our latest installment of the Allen School’s Undergrad Spotlight features Colin Summers, a senior majoring in computer engineering with significant experience in chemical and mechanical engineering. The Seattle native, who is pursuing a minor in aeronautics and astronautics, will spend the summer as an intern at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA JPL) in California.
Before taking off on his new adventure, Summers took time out from his busy schedule to share with… Read more →
Allen School privacy researchers shed light on secret surveillance with SeaGlass
A team of researchers in the Allen School’s Security and Privacy Research Lab have developed a new system, SeaGlass, which could bring more transparency and accountability to cell-phone surveillance. SeaGlass is capable of detecting anomalies in the cellular network that may indicate the presence of surveillance devices called IMSI-catchers (also known as cell-site simulators or Stingrays), which track individuals through their International Mobile Subscriber Identity by posing as a legitimate cell tower.
WIRED magazine recently talked to the researchers … Read more →
Allen School’s Aditya Vashistha wins Graduate Student Research Award
Allen School Ph.D. student Aditya Vashistha has earned the 2017 Graduate Student Research Award from the UW College of Engineering. Vashistha, who is advised by professor Richard Anderson in the Information & Communication Technology for Development (ICTD) Lab, earned the award for his work on social media technologies for the developing world.
Vashistha’s research aims to extend the benefits of social computing to the roughly four billion people around the globe who have constrained internet access. One of his… Read more →
Allen School undergraduate Hannah Werbel marches into the spotlight
For this edition of the Allen School’s Undergrad Spotlight, we check in with sophomore Hannah Werbel, a computer science major from Sammamish, Washington. Werbel was named the Freshman Medalist in the UW President’s Medalist awards in recognition of her academic performance and extra-curricular involvement on campus. In addition to serving as a teaching assistant for our introductory programming courses, Werbel is a student assistant at the UW’s DO-IT Center, a member of the Husky Marching Band, and president of… Read more →
Microsoft’s Brad Smith receives 2017 UW College of Engineering “Dean’s Award”
Brad Smith, Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer, received the UW College of Engineering “Dean’s Award” at the 2017 Diamond Awards celebration on Friday.
Brad was nominated by the Allen School as “a national and international leader in the establishment of visionary technology policies … a tireless and hugely effective advocate for STEM education (and particularly engineering education) in our state and across the nation … [and] an extraordinary friend of the University of Washington.”
Congratulations Brad, and thank you… Read more →
Perfect weather for Allen School ACM Student Chapter spring picnic!
The weather gods once again cooperated, giving us a spectacular Friday afternoon for the 2017 Allen School ACM Student Chapter spring picnic. Classes end on June 2; the Allen School graduation celebration is June 9.… Read more →
Allen School capstone film “Short Changed” to appear at the Seattle International Film Festival
“Short Changed,” a film created by a team of students as part of the Allen School’s Animation Capstone, has been designated an Official Selection of the 43rd Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF). The festival, which runs from May 18 to June 11, is the largest of its kind in the United States and will feature more than 400 works from filmmakers in over 70 countries. “Short Changed” was produced in the UW’s Animation Research Labs and directed… Read more →
May 15 – a good day for Allen School graduate program alums!
Machine learning startup Lattice Data, co-founded by Allen School Ph.D. alums Mike Cafarella (2009, advised by Oren Etzioni and Dan Suciu), Raphael Hoffmann (2012, advised by Dan Weld and Luke Zettlemoyer), and Chris Re (2009, advised by Dan Suciu), was acquired by Apple.
And Allen School Masters alum Frits Habermann (1990, advised by David Notkin, who had been advised by Frits’ father Nico on his 1983 CMU Ph.D.) was promoted to CEO of PicMonkey, where he was formerly… Read more →
Allen School student Fereshteh Sadeghi wins NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship
Fereshteh Sadeghi, a Ph.D. student in the Allen School’s Graphics & Imaging Laboratory (GRAIL), has been named a 2017 NVIDIA Graduate Fellow. Sadeghi, whose research combines robotics, deep reinforcement learning, and computer vision, is one of only 10 student researchers across the United States selected to receive the fellowship.
The NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship program supports research that spans all areas of computing innovation, with particular interest in projects that will drive advances in artificial intelligence, deep neural networks,… Read more →
Paul G. Allen School hosts PoCSci 2017
On Friday May 12, the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering once again hosted the annual Symposium of Potentially Computer Science (PoCSci). Quoting from General/Program Chair John Toman:
We invite you, your friends, loved ones, and pets to submit your best potential computer science research for presentation at this prestigious venue.
Potential areas of potential computer science include:
Pun Based Research
Barnyard Data Science
Cross-disciplinary research combining CS and French Existentialism
Bad Docker Jokes
Political-Figure Inspired Languages… Read more →