Bill Howe
Faculty Director · Co-Founder
Associate Professor in the iSchool, Adjunct Associate Professor in Computer Science & Engineering, and Founding Associate Director of the eScience Institute.
People
A community of passionate individuals
We believe in the power of collaboration — building AI systems and experiences with fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics.
Leadership
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Tanu Mitra
Co-Founder
Professor at the Information School, leading the Social Computing research group — building large-scale systems to understand and counter problematic information online.
Chirag Shah
Co-Founder
Professor in the Information School and Founding Director of the InfoSeeking Lab, working on information seeking, human-computer interaction, and social media.
Affiliates
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Jamie Morgenstern
Assistant Professor
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, working on the social impacts of machine learning.
Emily M. Bender
Professor
Linguistics; computational semantics, data statements, and critical engagement with large language models.
Afra Mashhadi
Assistant Professor
Computing & Software Systems, UW Bothell; ubiquitous computing and applied machine learning.
Andrew J. Connolly
Professor
Astronomy; Director of the eScience Institute and founding director of the DIRAC Institute.
Aylin Caliskan
Assistant Professor
Information School; AI ethics, bias in AI, and the implications of machine intelligence for privacy and equity.
Tyler H. McCormick
Professor
Statistical models for messy, incomplete data — social networks, verbal autopsy, and uncertainty in global health.
Yunhe Feng
Postdoctoral Scholar
Data mining, usable security and privacy, machine learning, and human-computer interaction.
Dingwen Tao
Assistant Professor
EECS, Washington State University; founding director of the HiPDAC Lab for HPC and big-data analytics.
Ott Toomet
Assistant Teaching Professor
Information School; computational social science — social networks, ethnic groups, and housing markets.
Yulia Tsvetkov
Assistant Professor
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering; natural language processing.
Leilani Battle
Assistant Professor
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering; interactive data-intensive systems.
Mike Teodorescu
Assistant Professor
Information School; machine learning fairness, technology innovation, intellectual property, and entrepreneurship.
Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad
Research Fellow · Adjunct Professor
Harborview Medical Center (UW Medicine); responsible AI in healthcare, digital twins, and personality emulation.
Alex Abplanalp
Faculty Lecturer
CommLead; AI, change theory and emerging technology, and ethical digital transformation.
Staff
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Ashlyn Luo
Communications Manager
Graduate student in the Communication Leadership program.
Kirandeep Kaur
Student Organizer
PhD student at the Paul G. Allen School, associated with the InfoSeeking Lab and RAISE.
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