Jacob Wobbrock and co-authors L. Zhang, Z. J. Zhang, G. Clepper, F.M. Li, P. Carrington, and L. Findlater’s paper titled “Toward Expressive Visual Content by Blind Creators Through AI Support,” was accepted to the ACM Conference on Accessible Computing (ASSETS 2025). 

Hayoung Jung (CSE BS/MS student), advised by Tanu Mitra, won the Outstanding Master's Thesis Award at the 2025 Allen School Graduation Celebration for his thesis titled: "Towards Inclusive Technologies: Examining Social Values and Harms in Large-Scale Sociotechnical Systems." 

Ben Lee and co-authors Trevor Owens and Jonah Estess’s paper titled “Powell.pps: Close & Distant Reading of Primary Sources in Web Archives” was published in Internet Histories.  

Sandy Littletree and co-authors Tessa Campbell and Mandi Harris (PhD Student)’s paper titled “Learning and Teaching Together: Relational Approaches to Supporting Native Scholars in Academia” was presented at the 2025 International Indigenous Librarians Forum (IILF) 2025.  

Wanda Pratt and co-authors Julia C. Dunbar (iSchool PhD Alum), Jily Jeffs, Chelsea Ng, Sanaa Sayed, Jodie Smith and Ari Pollack’s paper titled “My Kidney T.R.E.K. - Thinking, Reflecting, and Empowering Kidney Transplant Patients, through technology,” was accepted to the AMIA Annual Symposium 2025.  

Hyeyoung Ryu (iSchool PhD Alum), Sungha Kang (iSchool MSIM Alum) and Wanda Pratt’s paper titled “Mitigating Stigma and Fostering Support: Improving AI-Generated Counterspeech for Microaggressions” was accepted to the AMIA Annual Symposium 2025. 

Wanda Pratt and co-author Emma McDonnell’s paper titled “From Chronic Health Condition to Disability Identity: Opportunities for Health Informatics Engagement” was accepted to the AMIA Annual Symposium 2025. 

Lisa Dirks (iSchool PhD Alum) and co-authors Victoria BearBow and Wanda Pratt’s paper titled “Enhancing Health Research Results Dissemination for American Indian and Alaska Native Communities through Indigenous Community-Centered Design” was accepted to the AMIA Annual Symposium 2025. 

Jacob Wobbrock and co-author M. J. Kneitmix’s paper titled “From Screen Reading to Scene Reading in SceneVR: Touch-Based Interaction Techniques for Use in Virtual Reality by Blind and Low-Vision Users” was accepted to the ACM Conference on Accessible Computing (ASSETS 2025).  

Jacob Wobbrock and co-authors Z.J. Zhang, H. Li, C.M. Yu, F. Faruqi, J. Xie, G. S-H Kim, M. Fan, A. G. Forbes, A. Guo, and L. He’s paper titled “A11yShape: AI-assisted 3-D modeling for blind and low-vision programmers,” was accepted to the ACM Conference on Accessible Computing (ASSETS 2025). 

Chirag Shah gave an invited talk titled “From Retrieval to Renaissance: Building Novel Experiences Through Agentic AI” at the Institute for Research in Informatics at Toulouse. 

Tanu Mitra was a panelist for “Political Conflicts in Online Platforms in the Era of Gen-AI" at the CySoc2025 International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats at at the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). 

Tanu Mitra was a panelist at the Enterprise AI Agents Summit in Seattle’s AI House, hosted by OpenPipe and Amazon AWS.  

Ben Lee was featured on the CBC radio program As It Happens in a segment titled “A Holocaust Researcher Gets the Rare Chance to See Footage from Jerry Lewis’s Unfinished, Long-Buried Holocaust Film The Day the Clown Cried — and Says It’s Full of Surprises.” The interview aired as part of CBC’s nightly programming.