Alexis Hiniker received the 2025 ACM Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction (SIGCHI) Societal Impact Award.  

Aylin Caliskan and co-authors Joanna J. Bryson and Arvind Narayanan received 2025 Frontiers of Science Award awarded by the International Congress of Basic Science for their paper titled “Semantics derived automatically from language corpora contain human-like biases.” 

Amelia Dogan (PhD Student) received a $5,000 grant from the UW Program on Climate Change for their project titled “Environmental Technology Futures Workshops.” 

Heather Whiteman was identified as a Top 20 Overall People Analytics Influencer in the 2025 Global People Analytics Network Census.  

Ben Lee led the opening session of the 2025 Knight Library Leaders Conference on “AI and the Public Library” with his keynote titled “A Year of AI & Public Libraries.”  

Nicole Kuhn (PhD Candidate) presented a talk titled, “Engaging Indigenous Research Methodologies and Ethics to Understand How Indigenous Communities are Leveraging Social Media for Health Communication” at the Berkeley Center for New Media, at University of California – Berkeley. In this talk, Nicole shared her dissertation research focused on developing community-engaged research strategies that support American Indian and Alaska Native communities in leveraging TikTok and other social media platforms to share health information with their citizens.  

Chirag Shah gave an invited talk titled “What, How, and Why of Agents” at the Foster School of Business.  

Heather Whiteman was a panelist for a talk titled “How can Education and Corporate Training Overcome the Lack of Skills in IT and AI” at the World Artificial Intelligence Cannes Festival (WAICF).