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Illustration of a faceless figure in a suit with floating symbols and speech bubbles.

Mon, 12/30/2024 | UW Mechanical Engineering

Variational preference learning

Allen School Assistant Professor Natasha Jaques discusses her team's method for training AI systems that predict users’ preferences as they interact with the system, then tailor outputs accordingly.

Jaelynn Hunt-Osburn and Maelynn Dank hold a switch-adapted toy that looks like a snow globe.

Thu, 12/26/2024 | UW Mechanical Engineering

Adapting toys for families

The student group HuskyADAPT’s toy adaptation events provide accessible toys to families and equip students with engineering skills.

Daniel Alex headshot

Mon, 12/23/2024 | UW Aeronautics & Astronautics

Breaking through plasma's chaos

Ph.D. student Daniel Alex's research tackles one of fusion energy's greatest challenges: the unpredictable behavior of plasma itself.

Close-up of a traffic surveillance camera overlooking a busy road with cars in motion during sunset

Thu, 12/19/2024 | UW Civil & Environmental Engineering

Safeguarding privacy in transportation data

Civil & Environmental Engineering Professor Jeff Ban's research uses data to address traffic issues, ensuring solutions that protect personal privacy in modern cities.

person on laptop viewing digital profiles

Tue, 12/17/2024 | UW News

Subtle biases in AI models

In the ‘Wild West’ of AI chatbots, subtle biases related to race and caste often go unchecked.

A man lies down in a hospital bed while another man holds a handheld device to his back while seeing ultrasound imaging on a computer screen.

Thu, 12/12/2024 | UW Mechanical Engineering

Sound solutions

UW researchers have developed ultrasound technologies that break up and remove kidney stones.

An illustration of the endoscope lens system designed by UW ECE and Physics Professor Arka Majumdar and his research team

Tue, 12/10/2024 | UW Electrical & Computer Engineering

New lens system for endoscopes

A research team has designed a new kind of lens system for the tip of an endoscope, which could enable physicians to to see inside the body like never before.

A yellow aquatic drone on a body of water with residential buildings and palm trees in the background

Fri, 12/06/2024 | UW Civil & Environmental Engineering

Capturing Hurricane Helene

The RAPID Facility team deployed sensors and drones in Florida to gather critical data before and after Hurricane Helene’s landfall.

AI medical image analysis model

Wed, 12/04/2024 | UW News

Spotting systemic diseases with AI

BiomedParse is an AI medical image analysis model that works across nine types of medical images to better predict systemic diseases, such as lupus and diabetes.

Two lithium ion batteries on a conveyer belt

Mon, 12/02/2024 | UW News

Academia and U.S. battery manufacturing

Jie Xiao, a professor of mechanical engineering, talks about batteries and how academia can help support the growing domestic battery manufacturing industry.