Chirag Shah gave a keynote titled “Beyond the Personalization-Privacy Pareto: Can AI Agents Break the Tradeoff?” at the ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2026. 

Ben Lee and co-authors Rob Ehrenreich, Todd Presner, Michael Haley Goldman, Jana Keck, Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden, Abigail Potter, Alexis Lerner, Andrew Dean, and Anna Bonazzi wrote a whitepaper titled “AI and The Future of Holocaust Research & Memory,” which is available through the UW Libraries in collaboration with CALMA. 

Michelle Martin led a session titled “Using Children’s Literature to Celebrate Belonging and was a co-panelist for an Early Literacy Panel Discussion at Sno-Isle Libraries first Early Literacy Conference. 

Katie Davis and Alexis Hiniker, co-directors for the Center for Digital Youth, were interviewed for an episode of KUOW’s Seattle Now titled “AI Companions Can Befriend Teens and Affect their Development.”

Chirag Shah was mentioned in:

• “Why the Results you See at the top of Google are often Totally Wrong,” published by Stuff, New Zealand. 

• “Google Releases Gemini 3.1 Pro, Targeting Enterprises,” published by AI Business. 

Jevin West was referenced in an article titled “How to Spot an AI Recipe Before You Waste Ingredients,” published on Simply Recipes.