Newsletter Archive_Fall/Winter 2025

University of Washington

FALL/WINTER 2025

Join Alondra Nelson for our Distinguished Lecture

Event at 7 p.m. April 3

Dr. Nelson is a renowned scholar, author, and former Deputy Assistant to President Biden and Acting Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Register here.

Society + Technology at UW launches

Inaugural convening Jan. 10

Society + Technology at UW is a

cross-campus program that encourages collaboration and highlights strengths in a variety of disciplines. Learn more about the event here.

President Ana Mari Cauce speaks at the Society + Technology launch.

Faculty and Paper Awards

Co-Director Aylin Caliskan earns National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award.

Co-Director Emeritus Batya Friedman receives Future of Life award for pioneering work on Value Sensitive Design.

Co-Director Yoshi Kohno’s research is awarded Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper by the National Security Agency.

Cover of 2025 Proceedings of Privacy Enhancing Technologies

Tech Policy Lab paper recognized as Runner-Up at the 2024 Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium.

New Cutting-Edge Research

"Learning in place: Reimagining design practice as ecological literacy"; Postdoctoral scholar Nick Logler.
"IsolateGPT: An Execution Isolation Architecture for LLM-Based Agentic Systems"; Co-Director Tadayoshi Kohno, Faculty Associate Franziska Roesner.
"Intrinsic Bias is Predicted by Pretraining Data and Correlates with Downstream Performance in Vision-Language Encoders"; Co-Director Aylin Caliskan.

More TPL Research

TPL in the Media

Co-Director Ryan Calo, "Trump Is Said to Consider Executive Order to Circumvent TikTok Ban."

Co-Director

Emeritus Batya Friedman, "StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson."

Co-Director Aylin Caliskan, "Bot or Not?" series exploring relationships between humans and machines.

Program Manager Alex Bolton, "U.S. TikTok ban case pits free speech vs. national security. Which will win?"

More TPL News

TPL Co-Director Tadayoshi Kohno, Batya Friedman and Ryan Calo.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Tech Policy Lab celebrates its 10-year anniversary, and S+T at UW launches a new salon series.

Learn More

Tech Policy Lab, William Gates Hall, Room 222