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Awards
2025 SIGACCESS ASSETS Paper Impact Award for the 2009 paper “Freedom to roam: a study of mobile device adoption and accessibility for people with visual and motor disabilities,” authors Shaun K. Kane, Chandrika Jayant, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Richard E. Ladner
2021 AAAS Fellow
2021 ACM Lifetime Member awarded in recognition of 50 years of membership in the society
2020 National Science Board Public Service Award
2019 NCWIT Harrold and Notkin Award Research and Graduate Mentoring Award
2018 Champion of Computer Science – Accessibility presented by Computer Science Teachers Association and Code.org
2018 Strache Leadership Award from the Center on Disabilities at California State University, Northridge
2016 SIGACCESS Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computing and Accessibility
2015 Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award for Scientific Scholarship, Civic Science, and Diversifying Computing
2015 Broadening Participation in Computing Community Award
2014 SIGCHI Social Impact Award
2004-2012 Boeing Professor in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington.
2011 University of Washington Undergraduate Research Mentor Award
2010 Samuel E. Kelly Distinguished Faculty Lecture , University of Washington
2010-2011 Washington Association on Postsecondary Education and Disability (WAPED) Achievement Award
2009 University of Washington Outstanding Service Award
2009 IEEE Fellow
2008 Purpose Prize
2008 Computing Research Association A. Nico Habermann Award
2007 Team Innovators, College of Engineering Community of Innovators Award for the AccessComputing Alliance
2006 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship
2004 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM)
1995 ACM Fellow
1993 Fulbright Scholar
1985 Guggenheim Fellow