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 2024-2025 seminars are in person on the UW campus, and are free and open to the public. Students may opt to sign up for a one credit seminar (CR/NCR) listed as ENGR 591, “Data Science Seminar.”
The Spring 2025 seminars are held in Electrical and Computer Engineering Building (ECE) 125.
Spring 2025 Seminars
April 2nd
“Experimental Data Assimilation of Multi-Scale Turbulent Separated Flows” with Kevin Manohar
April 16th
“Responsible AI in the Generative AI Era” with Neelam Koshiya and Breanne Warner
April 23rd
Data Science & AI Accelerator Projects with Lauren Buckley and Cole Martin
April 30th
“Updating Open-Source Verbal Autopsy Software to Modern Python Standards” with Abraham Flaxman
May 7th
Data Science & AI Accelerator Projects with Ben Makhlouf and Masha Vernik
May 14th
“From Research to Impact: Data Science Approaches in Public Policy” with Thiyaghessan Poongundranar
May 21st
“How to Identify and Avoid Quasi-Explanation in AI and Machine Learning” with Boris Kovalerchuk
Winter 2025 Seminars
January 9th
“The multi-scale brain: modeling the impact of local structure and dynamics on brain function and dysfunction” with Anamika Agrawal
January 16th
“Augmenting LLMs for Social Impact” with Xinyi Zhou
January 23rd
“Raking methods and applications to health metrics” with Ariane Ducellier
January 30th
“Trustworthy Human-AI Shared Autonomy: Theory and Modeling” with Avi Bose, Daphne Chen, and Karen Leung
February 6th
“Revealing the Hidden Lives of Cryptic Carnivores with Machine Learning and AI” with Kasim Rafiq and Medha Agarwal
February 13th
“Data-Driven Optimization of Stochastic Computational Experiments: Applications in Hazard Risk Assessment” with John Choe and Kevin Jamieson
February 20th
“Generative AI for Multimodal Biomedicine” with Sheng Wang
February 27th
“Reconstructing the Synaptic Wiring Diagram of the Fruit Fly Brain” with Sven Dorkenwald
March 6th
“Pixel Politics: Advancing Critical Remote Sensing” with Mia Bennett
March 13th
“Feedback control is a normative theory of neural population dynamics” with Kris Bouchard
Fall 2024 Seminars
View Spring 2024 Recordings
March 27: 2024 Data Science Incubator projects: George Brencher and Diane Xue
April 3: 2024 Data Science Incubator projects: Nino Migineishvili and Tabitha Harrison
April 10: 2024 Data Science Incubator projects: Jihyeon Bae and Hauke Schulz
April 17: “Model Selection and False Positive Error Control in Complex Modeling Paradigms“ with Armeen Taeb, UW Statistics Assistant Professor
April 24: “Navigating the Data Deluge: AI, Infrastructure, and Decision-Making in the Era of Big Data” with Joshua C. Agar, Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics, Drexel University
May 1: “Integrated analysis of plasma and single immune cells uncovers metabolic changes in individuals with COVID-19” with Jihoon Lee, UW Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program
May 8: “Tightly Integrated, Programmable Hardware Acceleration” with Ang Li, UW Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
May 22: “Geoweaver for Improving Workflow Tangibility and Reducing Research Anxiety” with Ziheng Sun, Research Associate Professor in the Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems at George Mason University
View Previous Winter 2024 Recordings
January 11: “The Unequal Landscape of Civic Opportunity in America: Evidence from 1.8 Million Tax Returns” with Jae Yeon Kim, Safety Net Innovations Lab
January 18: “Mobile sensing with shallow recurrent decoder networks” with Megan Ebers, AI Institute in Dynamic Systems
January 25: “Decoding Terminators: Synthetic terminator designs enabled by comprehensive analysis of plant terminators” with Sayeh Gorjifard, UW Genome Sciences postdoctoral scholar
February 1: “Leveraging Nature’s Translation Between Low and High Temperature Proteins with Deep Learning” with Evan Komp, recent PhD in UW Chemical Engineering Data Science
February 8: “Reconstructing the synaptic wiring diagram of the fruit fly brain” with Sven Dorkenwald, Shanahan Foundation Fellow
February 15: “Robustly estimating heterogeneity in factorial data using Rashomon Partitions” with Tyler McCormick, UW Statistics and Sociology
February 22: “A gentle & comparative introduction to social network analysis using Python and R” with Jose Manuel Magallanes, Computational Public Policy
February 29: “Data-driven open source projects: preventing random acts of metrics” with Julia Ferraioli from AWS
March 7: “Mechanics-informed, geospatial ML for natural hazard planning & response” with Morgan Sanger, UW Geotechnical Engineering
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.