Showcasing data science in the arts, engineering, humanities, and sciences.
The UW Data Science Seminar is an annual lecture series at the University of Washington that hosts scholars working across applied areas of data science, such as the arts, engineering, humanities and sciences along with methodological areas in data science, such as computer science, applied math and statistics. Our presenters come from all domain fields and include occasional external speakers from regional partners, governmental agencies and industry.
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The 2022-2023 seminars are offered online, and are free and open to the public. Students may opt to sign up for a one credit seminar (CR/NCR) listed as CHEM E 599, “Topics in Data Science” or sometimes “Current Topics in Chemical Engineering.”
Use this link for Spring 2023 UW Data Science Seminars
Spring 2023 Seminars
March 29th
2023 Data Science Incubator Project Presentations: Will Kumler and Bernease Herman
April 12th
2023 Data Science Incubator Project Presentations: Cassia Cai, Jacob Cohen, and Eric Gagliano
April 26th
“Ocean Warming Threatens the Survival of Key Microbes” with François Ribalet, UW Oceanography
May 10th
“Government Open Data for Data Scientists” with Cathi Greenwood, Open Data Program Manager

May 24th
No seminar this week.
April 5th
2023 Data Science Incubator Project Presentations: Celina Balderas Guzmán and Yiyu Ni
April 19th
“Using computer vision to study animal behavior in natural environments” with Ben Koger
May 3rd
“Data Mining the Earth’s Vibrations” with Marine Denolle, UW Earth & Space Sciences
May 17th
“Introducing pseudopeople: census-scale simulated data for entity resolution” with Abraham Flaxman, UW IHME
May 31st
“Fast Machine Learning on FPGAs for particle physics applications“ with Elham Khoda, UW Physics Postdoctoral Scholar
Previous Spring 2023 Recordings
March 29: Winter Incubator 2023 presentations from Will Kumler (UW Oceanography) and Bernease Herman (eScience Institute)
April 5: Winter Incubator 2023 presentation from Yiyu Ni (UW Earth and Space Sciences)
April 12: Winter Incubator 2023 presentations from Cassia Cai and Jacob Cohen (UW Oceanography), and Eric Gagliano (UW Civil & Environmental Engineering)
April 19: “Using computer vision to study animal behaviors in natural environments” with Ben Koger, UW Data Science Postdoctoral Fellow
April 26: “Ocean Warming Threatens the Survival of Key Microbes” with François Ribalet, UW Oceanography
May 3: “Data Mining the Earth’s Vibrations” with Marine Denolle, UW Earth & Space Sciences
May 10: “Government Open Data for Data Scientists“ with Cathi Greenwood, Open Data Program Manager
May 17: “Introducing pseudopeople: census-scale simulated data for entity resolution” with Abraham Flaxman, UW Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
May 31: “Fast Machine Learning on FPGAs for particle physics applications” with Elham Khoda, UW Physics
Archived seminar recordings
This seminar is currently organized and hosted by the eScience Institute and the Engineering Data Science Institute (EDSI). We are grateful for the support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
The eScience Institute, iSchool DataLab, and CSE Interactive Data Lab co-created and hosted this seminar series from 2014 through 2019. In Fall 2020, the eScience Community Seminar merged with the UW Data Science Seminar Series.