Share Five faculty members at the University of Washington are among 120 new members and 30 international members elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The new members include 59 women, the most chosen in a single year, according to an April 26 announcement by the academy. The five new members from the UW are: Anna Karlin, professor of computer science and engineering Rachel Klevit, professor of biochemistry Randall LeVeque, professor emeritus of applied mathematics Julie Theriot, professor of biology Rachel Wong, professor of biological structure Anna Karlin Karlin, who holds the Bill and Melinda Gates Chair in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, works in theoretical computer science. She earned a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics and a doctoral degree in computer science at Stanford University. Before joining the UW faculty in 1994, she worked for five years at what was then the Digital Equipment Corporation’s Systems Research Center. At the UW, Karlin is a member of the Theory of Computation group in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. Her research centers on designing and analyzing certain types of algorithms — such as probabilistic algorithms, which incorporate a degree of chance or randomness, and online algorithms, which can handle input delivered in a step-by-step manner. Karlin also works in algorithmic game theory, a field that merges algorithm design with considerations of strategic behavior. Her studies have also intersected other disciplines, including economics and data mining. In 2016, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.