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Bill Howe is Associate Professor in the Information School and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Allen School of Computer Science &amp; Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering.  His research interests are in data management, curation, analytics, and visualization in the sciences. As Founding Associate Director of the UW eScience Institute, Howe played a leadership role in the Data Science Environment program at UW through a $32.8 million grant awarded jointly to UW, NYU, and UC Berkeley, and founded UW's Data Science for Social Good Program.  With support from the MacArthur Foundation and Microsoft, Howe directs  UW's participation in the Cascadia Urban Analytics Cooperative, where he focuses on responsible data science.  He founded the UW Data Science Masters Degree, serving as its inaugural Program Chair, and created a first MOOC on data science that attracted over 200,000 students. 
His research has been featured in the Economist and Nature News, and he co-authored what have remained the most-cited papers from VLDB 2010 and SIGMOD 2012.  He has received two Jim Gray Seed Grant awards from Microsoft Research and two ``Best of Conference'' invited papers from VLDB Journal.
He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Portland State University and a Bachelor's degree in Industrial &amp; Systems Engineering from Georgia Tech.
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