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Professor Amy Zhang named Sloan Research Fellow

Alum Nicki Dell (Ph.D.,’15) receives Alumni Impact Award
Alum Nicki Dell (Ph.D.,’15) receives Alumni Impact Award

The Allen School honored Dell, a professor at Cornell Tech, for her work on technologies to address the needs of overlooked communities, including people experiencing intimate partner violence and home health care workers.

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Allen School team receives UW Distinguished Teaching Award
Allen School team receives UW Distinguished Teaching Award

Faculty behind the redesign of the introduction to programming course series were recognized as part of the 2025 Awards of Excellence, one of the University's highest honors.

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Allen School Ph.D. graduates honored with ACM Doctoral Dissertation Awards
Allen School Ph.D. graduates honored with ACM Doctoral Dissertation Awards

Ashish Sharma won the 2024 award for leveraging AI to improve mental health, while Sewon Min received an honorable mention for developing more efficient, flexible language models.

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Allen School launches new Graduate Certificate in Modern AI Methods
Allen School launches new Graduate Certificate in Modern AI Methods

This stackable certificate is designed to help professionals in a wide range of fields to understand and leverage the latest artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques as part of their work.

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Alum Ewin Tang (Ph.D., ‘23) wins Breakthrough Prize in mathematics
Alum Ewin Tang (Ph.D., ‘23) wins Breakthrough Prize in mathematics

Tang, a postdoc at University of California, Berkeley and former student in the Allen School’s Theory of Computation group, received the 2025 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize for her work in quantum computing.

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A small handlebar sensor can help map a region’s riskiest bike routes
A small handlebar sensor can help map a region’s riskiest bike routes

Researchers in the Allen School’s UbiComp Lab created the ProxiCycle sensor system with the goal of mapping which routes are best — and worst — for bikes.

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Alum's $3M gift will create new professorship and support student success
Alum's $3M gift will create new professorship and support student success

HashiCorp co-founder Armon Dadgar (B.S., ‘11) and Joshua Kalla aim to drive the next wave of systems innovation for the AI era while supporting a new generation of innovators and entrepreneurs.

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AI headphones translate multiple speakers at once
AI headphones translate multiple speakers at once

A team in the Allen School's Mobile Intelligence Lab developed a system for language translation in group conversations that preserves the direction and expression of each person’s voice.

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Our new Graduate Certificate in Modern AI Methods launches in Autumn 2025!

This certificate may be pursued on its own or as part of a stackable master’s program. Visit the program webpage to learn more, and contact us at cert-modern-ai (at) cs.washington.edu with questions.

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The Paul G. Allen School educates tomorrow’s innovators, conducts cutting-edge research in core and emerging areas of the field, and leads a variety of multi-disciplinary initiatives that demonstrate the transformative power of computing. Consistently ranked among the top computer science programs in the nation, we are widely recognized for the excellence and impact of our research and teaching across the region and around the globe. As a recognized leader in broadening participation in computing, we cultivate a welcoming community in which individuals with diverse backgrounds, identities and experiences can thrive.

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