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<h1>Bill Howe</h1>
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Associate Professor, Information School<br>
Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering<br>
Adjunct Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering<br>
Co-Founding Director, Center for Responsible AI Systems and Experiences<br>
Director, Urbanalytics Lab<br>
Founding Program Director and Faculty Chair, UW Data Science Masters Degree<br>
Founding Associate Director and Senior Data Science Fellow, UW eScience Institute<br>
University of Washington<br>
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I am an Associate Professor in the Information School, Adjunct Associate Professor in Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering. I was Founding Associate Director of the <a href="http://escience.washington.edu">UW eScience Institute</a> where I remain a Senior Data Science Fellow. I currently Direct the <a href="https://urbanalytics.uw.edu/">Urbanalytics group</a> and Co-Direct the <a href="">Center for Responsible AI Systems and Experiences</a>. I am a co-founder of <a href="http://urban.uw.edu/">Urban@UW</a>. I created a <a href="https://www.coursera.org/course/datasci">first MOOC on Data Science</a> through Coursera, and I led the creation of the <a href="http://datasciencemasters.uw.edu/">UW Data Science Masters Degree</a>, where I serve as its first Program Director and Faculty Chair. I serve on the Steering Committee of the Center for Statistics in the Social Sciences.
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My group's research aims to make the techniques and technologies of data science broadly accessible, especially in the public sector where issues of equity, privacy, and compliance are paramount. Our methods are rooted in database models and languages, though we also study machine learning, visualization, HCI, and high-performance computing. We are an applied, systems-oriented group, frequently sourcing projects through collaborations in the physical, life, and social sciences. Our current interests are in algorithmic fairness, machine learning for heterogeneous data, and urban computing.
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<li>August, 2023: Our <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.12700">paper on Epistemic Parity</a> received a <a href="https://vldb.org/2023/?conference-awards" style="color:red">runner-up Best Paper award</a> at <a href="https://vldb.org/2023/">VLDB 2023</a>! This work was a collaboration with NYU, led by Lucas Rosenblatt, and involved the use of a large team of Ukrainian undergraduate researchers who are all co-authors. Congrats to the team!</li>
<li>August, 2023: We had two applied papers accepted to HICCS. :)</li>
<li>June, 2023: I gave a <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/domoritz/hilda-2023-keynote-bill-howe">keynote</a> at <a href="https://hilda.io/2023/">Human-in-the-Loop Data Analytics workshop (HILDA)</a> co-located with SIGMOD 2023.</li>
<li>May, 2023: I gave a <a href="https://amw2023.org/keynotes.html">keynote</a> at <a href="https://amw2023.org/">Alberto Mendelzon International Workshop on Foundations of Data Management (AMW2023</a> in Santiago Chile.</li>
<li>May, 2023: Our <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.12700">paper on Epistemic Parity, an approach to evaluating differentially private synthetic data using the scientific literature</a>, was accepted to <a href="https://vldb.org/2023/">VLDB 2023</a>.</li>
<li>long break in updating due to COVID, family emergencies, and sabbatical...</li>
<li>July, 2021: I gave the <a href="https://iitdbgroup.github.io/ProvenanceWeek2020/provviz.html">keynote</a> at the fantastic <a href="https://iitdbgroup.github.io/ProvenanceWeek2021/provviz.html">ProvViz workshop</a>.</li>
<li>March, 2021: <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3440889">Our paper</a> on data equity in relationship to COVID-19 has been released in DG.o.</li>
<li>February, 2021: <a href="http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2841/PIE+Q_6.pdf">Our short paper</a> describing data equity and data equity systems was published in EDBT</a></li>
<li>February, 2021: My student An Yan's <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3448016.3452777">Equitensors paper</a> has been accepted to SIGMOD 21.</li>
<li>January, 2021: My student Sean Yang's <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9412667">JECL paper</a> showing new state-of-the-art results for joint embeddings of image-text pairs has been accpted to ICPR.</li>
<li>August, 2020: I'm pleased to be a co-author on Julia Stoyanovich's <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.14778/3415478.3415570">invited keynote paper on Responsible Data Management</a> at VLDB 2020.</li>
<li>July, 2020: Shana Hutchison's <a href="http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol13/p1919-wang.pdf">paper on optimizing linear algebra queries using relational algebra</a> was published in VLDB 2020.</li>
<li>April, 2020: My student An Yan's <a href="https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/5458">paper on fairness metrics for urban mobility applications</a> has been accepted to AAAI.</li>
<li>November, 2019: My student An Yan's <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3347146.3359380">short paper on fairness metrics in spatio-temporal settings (FairST)</a> has been published at SIGSPATIAL.</li>
<li>April, 2020: <a href="https://ojs.aaai.org//index.php/AAAI/article/view/5458">Our survey paper on algorithmic fairness and urban mobility</a> (with my student An Yan) was published in a special issue of the Data Engineering Bullletin</li>
Our summary paper on the relationship between database repair and fairness is <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3422648.3422657">available in SIGMOD Record</a></li>
<li>March, 2020: Our summary paper on the relationship between database repair and fairness is <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3422648.3422657">available in SIGMOD Record</a></li>
<li>August, 2019: My student Sean Yang's i<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.07465">paper quantifying how the use of visualizations varies across scienific disciplines</a> has been released</li>
<li>June, 2019: <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3299869.3319901">Our paper</a> on algorithmic fairness (with Babak Salimi, Luke Rodriguez, and Dan Suciu) received the <strong style="color:red;">Best paper award</strong> at SIGMOD 2019!</li>
<li>May, 2019: My student <a href="https://www.domoritz.de/">Dominik Moritz's</a> (now at CMU!) <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3290605.3300924">paper on Falcon</a>, demonstrating in-browser, interactive speeds for cross-linked visualizations on billion-tuple datasets received the <strong style="color:red;">Best paper award</strong> at VIs 2019!</li>
<li>January, 2019: <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3287560.3287577">Our paper on data governance, privacy, and synthetic data</a> was published at FAT 2019 (now FAccT)</li>
<li>January, 2019: <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0966692318305726">Our paper on the equity of dockless bikeshare systems</a>, led by Stephen Mooney, was published in the Journal of Transport Geography</li>
<li>August, 2018: My student Shrainik Jain's <a href="https://faculty.washington.edu/billhowe//publications/pdfs/jain_cidr_2019.pdf">paper on using deep learning for vendor-agnostic workload management</a> was accepted to CIDR 2019.</li>
<li>July 26, 2018: I'm giving an invited talk at NSF on our work on algorithmic curation of science data repositories.
<li>July 21, 2018: <strong style="color:red;">Best paper award</strong> Our paper on <a href="https://www.domoritz.de/papers/2018-Draco-InfoVis.pdf">DRACO</a> using answer set programming to model visualization recommendation rules won best paper at InfoVis 2018! Congratulations to Dominik and the whole team!</li>
<li>July 18, 2018: I presented our paper on <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.08600.pdf">EZLearn</a> at IJCAI 2018 in Stockholm. EZLearn combines distant supervision and co-learning to avoid the need for training data in applications that have access to noisy free-text descriptions of data, especially in science.</li>
<li>July 10, 2018: Congratulation to Kanit (Ham) Wongsuphasawat for defending his thesis on visualization recommendation systems! Ham is joining Apple as a Research Scientist.</li>
<li>July 2, 2018: New <a href="pdfs/rodriguezmobilitybidu2018vldb.pdf">workshop paper on removing bias from transportation data</a> at <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/bidu2018/">BiDU - Workshop on Big Social Data and Urban Computing</a> co-located with VLDB 2018</li>
<li>June 21, 2018: I represented our BIGDATA grant on <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1740996">Foundations of Responsible Data Science</a> and the West Big Data Hub at the combined BIGDATA PI meeting and Big Data Hubs meeting at NSF this week.</li>
<li>June 14, 2018: New workshop paper accepted at <a href="http://wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=74902©ownerid=83849">DSDAH 2018</a>, co-located with KDD, on <a href="">Classifying Digitized Art by Type and Time Period</a>
<li>June 14, 2018: Great discussion at our <a href="https://sigmod2018.org/sigmod_special_session.shtml">session on Responsible Data Science at SIGMOD 2018</a> in Houston</li>
<li>June 11, 2018: New workshop paper accepted at <a href="http://thealphalab.org/bigscholar/2018/">BigScholar 2018</a>, co-located with KDD, on <a href="">Central Figure Identification</a> for scientific papers.
<li>May 3, 2018: New blog post on <a href="https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/05/03/refining-the-concept-of-a-nutritional-label-for-data-and-models/">nutritional labels for datasets and models</a> is up at Freedom to Tinker. This post expands on our SIGMOD 2018 demo on <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07890">Nutritional Labels for Rankings</a> at SIGMOD 2018</li>
<li>April, 2018: Congratulations to Maxim Grechkin for defending his thesis on algorithmic curation. Max joined facebook's integrity team working on claim verification as a research scientist.</li>
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<a href="/billhowe//projects/2017/10/20/Verifying-Science.html" title="EZLearn+Automatic Claim Validation" class="post-teaser">
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<div class="post-title"><a href="/billhowe//projects/2017/10/20/Verifying-Science.html">EZLearn+Automatic Claim Validation</a></div>
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<a href="/billhowe//projects/2017/07/20/Data-Synthesizer.html" title="Privacy-Preserving Synthetic Data" class="post-teaser">
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<div class="post-title"><a href="/billhowe//projects/2017/07/20/Data-Synthesizer.html">Privacy-Preserving Synthetic Data</a></div>
<div class="post-excerpt" itemprop="description">We are developing usable, general tools to generate shareable synthetic datasets with strong privacy guarantees from any input dataset.</div>
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<a href="/billhowe//projects/2015/03/22/Data-Science-for-Social-Good.html" title="Data Science for Social Good" class="post-teaser">
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<div class="post-title"><a href="/billhowe//projects/2015/03/22/Data-Science-for-Social-Good.html">Data Science for Social Good</a></div>
<div class="post-excerpt" itemprop="description">Building on our data science incubator program and the University of Chicago's Data Science for Social Good program, we ran an interdisciplinary summer program for...</div>
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<a href="/billhowe//projects/2015/01/15/Viziometrics.html" title="Viziometrics" class="post-teaser">
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<div class="post-title"><a href="/billhowe//projects/2015/01/15/Viziometrics.html">Viziometrics</a></div>
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<a href="/billhowe//projects/2014/08/22/RACO-Big-Data-Middleware.html" title="Myria Middleware for Polystores" class="post-teaser">
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<div class="post-title"><a href="/billhowe//projects/2014/08/22/RACO-Big-Data-Middleware.html">Myria Middleware for Polystores</a></div>
<div class="post-excerpt" itemprop="description">Part of the Myria project, RACO (the Relational Algebra COmpiler) is a polystore middleware system that provides query translation, optimization, and orchestration across complex multi-system...</div>
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<a href="/billhowe//projects/2014/08/11/Graph-Clustering.html" title="Clustering Billion-Edge Graphs" class="post-teaser">
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<div class="post-title"><a href="/billhowe//projects/2014/08/11/Graph-Clustering.html">Clustering Billion-Edge Graphs</a></div>
<div class="post-excerpt" itemprop="description">Working at the intersection of network science, databases, and high-performance computing, we developed a series of novel parallel algorithms based on Infomap serial graph clustering...</div>
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<div class="post-title"><a href="/billhowe//projects/2014/04/20/Scalable-Flow-Cytometry.html">Scalable Flow Cytometry</a></div>
<div class="post-excerpt" itemprop="description">We have developed algorithms, methods, systems, and applications in support of the Seaflow project in the Armbrust Lab in the UW department of Oceanography.</div>
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<a href="/billhowe//projects/2014/03/22/SQLShare.html" title="SQLShare: DB-as-a-Service" class="post-teaser">
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<div class="post-title"><a href="/billhowe//projects/2014/03/22/SQLShare.html">SQLShare: DB-as-a-Service</a></div>
<div class="post-excerpt" itemprop="description">SQLShare aims to increase uptake of databases in data science and shed light on how data scientists work with data</div>
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<a href="/billhowe//projects/2013/11/04/VizDeck.html" title="VizDeck + Visualization Recommenders" class="post-teaser">
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<div class="post-title"><a href="/billhowe//projects/2013/11/04/VizDeck.html">VizDeck + Visualization Recommenders</a></div>
<div class="post-excerpt" itemprop="description">VizDeck recommends visualizations based on the statistical properties of the data tempered by perception heuristics. Dashboards are assembled through a card-game UI.</div>
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<a href="/billhowe//projects/2013/04/23/Big-Data-Visualization.html" title="Scalable Visualization meets Relational Algebra" class="post-teaser">
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<div class="post-title"><a href="/billhowe//projects/2013/04/23/Big-Data-Visualization.html">Scalable Visualization meets Relational Algebra</a></div>
<div class="post-excerpt" itemprop="description">With funding from EMC and NSF, we explore new approaches to scalable visualization making use of large-scale database and dataflow engines.</div>
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