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An image showing PhD student Dhruv Jain. He is wearing glasses and in a gray sports coat with a gray sweater and white shirt underneath

Dhruv Jain Receives Microsoft Dissertation Grant

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Aug 18, 2021

Dhruv Jain Selected for Google-CMD-IT LEAP Alliance Fellowship

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Aug 05, 2021

Liang He Receives Bob Bandes Memorial Honorable Mention Teaching Award

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Jun 14, 2021

A picture of a cat using a laptop and visiting the Makeability Lab Physical Computing teaching website

Froehlich Selected for Outstanding Faculty Award

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Jun 07, 2021

A picture of Manaswi Saha's General Exam showing a slide that reads "People and Infrastructure Problem: Socio-political Environmental Analysis" and states a research question: "How do stakeholders assess urban accessibility and how do they make decisions?"

Manaswi Saha Passes General Exam

BY Jon E. Froehlich • May 28, 2021

Dhruv Jain Receives Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant

BY Jon E. Froehlich • May 24, 2021

A screenshot of Skribbl.io, a drawing + guessing game. The image shows a person drawing an object with a mouse and four video feeds of the game players.

Virtual Lab Hangout with Skribbl.io!

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Jan 21, 2021

An image showing a Zoom screenshot of Liang's title slide (with the title and Liang's affiliation) along with a sidebar of Zoom attendees

Liang He Passes General Exam

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Dec 18, 2020

DJ holding an Android watch running SoundWatch that shows Speech has been recognized (at 64 dB). The alert can be snoozed for 10 minutes

Dhruv Jain Passes General Exam

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Dec 11, 2020

A screenshot of the opening slide of Seokbin Kang's PhD defense showing a picture of PrototypAR and some of the committee members

Announcing Dr. Seokbin Kang

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Nov 10, 2020

Image shows a person wearing an Android smartwatch with the SoundWatch user interface, which shows a "Car Honk" recognized sound with 98% accuracy and 101 decibels.

SoundWatch Wins Best Artifact Award at ASSETS

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Oct 29, 2020

A picture of Manaswi Saha showing her standing in front of tree with a yellow shirt

Manaswi Saha Honored with Google PhD Fellowship

BY Jon E. Froehlich • Oct 07, 2020

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