# Students, Postdocs, and Research Scientists

**Source**: https://faculty.washington.edu/billhowe/students/
**Parent**: https://faculty.washington.edu/billhowe/

### Students, Postdocs, and Research Scientists

#### Current

- Shrainik Jain (CS) — Polystore architecture, high-variety databases
- Dominik Moritz (CS) — Integrating scalable databases and visualization, visualization recommendation
- Dylan Hutchison (CS) — Models and languages for polystores, optimization of linear and relational algebra
- Sean Yang (EE) — computer vision, [viziometrics](http://viziometrics.org)
- Luke Rodriguez (iSchool) — differential privacy, data science for social good
- Emily Furst (CS) — GPU databases

#### Past

- Brandon Myers (CS) — Query compilation, high-peformance computing, big data systems. Now at University of Iowa
- Sophie Clayton (eScience Postdoc) — Large-scale analytics over environmental flow cytometry
- Poshen Lee (EE) — Computer vision, machine learning, bibliometrics, [viziometrics](http://viziometrics.org)
- Jeremy Hyrkas (CS) — Big data applications, analytics for science. Now at Microsoft
- Seung-Hee Bae (CS Postdoc) — Graph clustering algorithms, HPC + big data
- Dan Halperin (CS Senior Research Scientist) — Big data systems and languages, scientific data management. Now at Google
- Andrew Whitaker (CS Research Scientist) — Big data systems and languages, query optimization. Now at Amazon
- Marianne Shaw (CS Postdoc) — Graph query, big data traversal algorithms. Now at Tableau
- Yongchul Kwon (CS) — Big data systems, fault-tolerance, skew handling. Now at Microsoft
- Yingyi Bu (CS) — Big data systems and languages. Moved to UC Irvine
- Tanmay Modak (iSchool Masters) — Visual analytics, machine learning
- Elton Dias (iSchool Masters) — Visual analytics, machine learning
- Abhigyan Kaustubh (iSchool Masters) — Visual analytics, machine learning

### Collaborators and Thesis Committees

#### Current

- Kanit “Ham” Wongsuphasawat (CS) — Visualization recommendation
- Katie Kuksenok (CS) — Ethnography of data-intensive science

#### Past

- Xiaolei Ma (Civil Engineering) — Transportation analytics
- Nodira Khoussainova (CS) — Query recommendation, performance debugging
- Paris Koutris (CS) — Data pricing, modeling big data computation

### eScience Staff (formerly, as Associate Director)

#### Data Scientists and Research Scientists

- Jacob Vanderplas (Astronomy, Computer Science) — astronomy, machine learning, statistics, algorithms, python
- Joe Hellerstein (Computer Science) — software engineering, computational biology
- Ariel Rokem (Neuroscience) — neuroscience, machine learning, image analytics, python
- Valentina Staneva (Applied Math) — applied math, modeling, machine learning, image analytics
- Bernease Herman (Statistics) — statistics, cloud computing
- Britta Fiore-Gartland (Human-Centered Design and Engineering) — collaborative technology, ethnography
- Rob Fatland (Physics, Computer Science) — earth science data, cloud computing, data management
- Anthony Arendt (Glaciology) — geographic data systems, spatiotemporal data, satellite data
- Bryna Hazelton (Astrophysics) — petascale computing, machine learning
- Andrew Fiore-Gartland (Biostatistics) — machine learning, statistics

#### Program Management

- Micaela Parker (Oceanography)
- Sarah Stone (Oceanography)

#### Administration

- Karla Danson, administrative assistant
- Jesse Piedfort, financial specialist

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