Professors Andrea Coladangelo, Matthew Golub, Ranjay Krishna, Chinmay Nirkhe, and Stephanie Wang are shaping the future of computing through projects spanning AI, systems, computational neuroscience, ...

The 2026 Nobel Prize Dialogue in Seoul asks how AI will transform the future of science, and seeks to explore what these changes mean for our ability to develop scientific solutions to the urgent chal...

Researchers in the Programming Languages & Software Engineering (PLSE) group introduced egg, an open-source library that uses e-graphs along with equality saturation to optimize term representations. ...

In the award-winning paper, Nirkhe and his collaborators resolved a longstanding problem in quantum complexity theory by proving that quantum proofs are computationally more powerful than classical pr...

Semantic hearing could transform AI hearing aids with acoustic bubbles, targeted voices, and personalized control over the sounds around you.

Li (B.S., ‘13) and his collaborators received the award for resolving a foundational problem in robust statistics, proving that a broad class of high-dimensional statistical problems can be both effic...

The International Mathematical Union honored Oveis Gharan, a member of the Allen School’s Theory of Computation Group, with one of the most prestigious prizes in mathematics for “landmark contribution...

Grossman, who has served as vice director of the school for the past nine years and is a recognized leader in programming languages education and research, will succeed Magdalena Balazinska at the con...

AI가 스스로 판단하고 행동하는 시대가 열리면서 단순한 성능보다 판단의 신뢰성이 중요한 경쟁력으로 떠오르고 있다. 이수인 워싱턴대 석좌교수는 AI의 다음 경쟁력은 ‘왜 그런 판단을 내렸는지’를 설명하고, 인간이 그 근거를 검증할 수 있는 능력이라고 강조한다.

This dissertation explores the problem of analyzing and optimizing data-dependent programs from a theoretical and practical perspective. The performance of these programs depends in a complex manner o...

The University of Washington is developing an interdisciplinary AI minor, open to students across all majors and co-led by an anthropologist and a computer scientist. Set to launch in spring 2027, it'...

Chanwoo Kim is on Forbes' 2026 30 Under 30 - Asia - Healthcare & Science list. Read more about Chanwoo Kim, their experience, their asset summary, and more here.

Dawson and Khoussainova, the 2026 Alumni Impact Award recipients, have combined their computing skillset with their entrepreneurial spirit to build companies that are making a positive impact in peopl...

The award, which is based on nominations from University of Washington alumni, honors “UW educators whose profound influence continues to shape the lives of their students long after they’ve left the ...

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Ph.D. students Vicente Arroyos and Kyle Johnson recently received special recognition from ACM SIGCHI for co-founding AVELA - A Vision for Engineering Literacy & Access, which connects K-12 students w...

After more than four decades on the faculty, Henry M. Levy (Hank) officially retired from the University of Washington last summer. Now, friends and colleagues are contributing to the creation of a ne...

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University of Washington researchers developed a system called VueBuds that uses tiny cameras in off-the-shelf wireless earbuds to allow users to talk with an AI model about the scene in front of...

As the director of the Allen School’s Makeability Lab, Allen School professor and alum Jon Froehlich (Ph.D., ‘11) utilizes human-computer interaction (HCI) and machine learning to tackle high-impact s...

Although AI coding tools have stoked fears that the technology will replace software engineers, jobs in the field are growing. As companies pump out more software, there’s increasing demand for season...

Although Allen School professor emeritus Richard Ladner started his career as one of the founders of the University of Washington’s theoretical computer science group, he has grown to become a leading...

Program obfuscation, which aims to obscure the inner workings of a computer program while maintaining its functionality, is a central goal in cryptography and software protection. Allen School Ph.D. s...