Jake Wobbrock received the ACM SIGACCESS Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computing and Accessibility, which is awarded to one researcher every other year for making significant and lasting contributions to the development of computing technologies that improve the accessibility of media and services to people with disabilities.
Alisha Ukani (Postdoctoral Scholar) and co-authors Katherine Izhikevich, Earlence Fernandes, Alex Snoeren, and Stefan Savage’s paper titled “WarrInt: Integrity Validation for Criminal Legal Process” received a Distinguished Paper Runner-Up award at USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX 2026)
Jevin West gave a keynote titled “AI, Misinformation, and the Integrity of Public Discourse,” at the WestPac Chapter of AALL Annual Meeting.
Ben Lee and co-authors Mikaela Ballmer (MLIS Alumni), and Rowan Tabor’s demo paper titled “The Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Companion App: A Crowdsourcing Tool for Reparative Description with Oral History Transcripts,” was accepted to the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2026).
Ben Lee and co-authors Ashkay Mehta, Albert Du, Anjali Gopal, Ying-Hsiang Huang, and Kyle Deeds resource paper titled “GovText: 142 Billion Tokens Extracted from Government Documents” was accepted to the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2026).
Chris Coward and co-authors Ladislava Zbiejczuk Suchá, D. Janda, and Roberto Cibin’s paper titled “Localizing and Co-Designing Game-Based Interventions to Foster Resilience Against Misinformation: A Case Study from the Czech Republic,” was accepted to the 11th European Communication Conference (ECREA 2026).
Melanie Walsh and Neel Gupta (PhD Student), and their work, were quoted in an article titled “’I Like My Big Rat Wife’: Meet the People Using Chatbots to Write Custom Fiction,” published in WIRED.
Melanie Walsh was mentioned in an article titled “Destroying Books to Build a Mind,” published in The New Yorker.
Chirag Shah was interviewed for an KUOW segment titled “As Experts Sound the Alarm on AI, Where Does Seattle Fit In?” in Seattle Now.
Chirag Shah was interviewed for a FOX13 local news segment titled “UW Professor Says AI Takeover Unlikely, But Concerns Remain.”
Chirag Shah was mentioned in an article titled “Nvidia and Semiconductor Vendor Expand Partnership” published on AI Business.