Group: Core Team

• Vani Mandava

  

  Vani Mandava is the Head of Engineering for the UW Scientific Software Engineering Center within eScience Institute. In her role, she is responsible for setting up the SSEC organization and work with research investigators to define the priorities and scope of software infrastructure that will strengthen the scientific software community. The primary mission of the…

• Jenny Holcomb

  

  Jenny is the eScience Institute’s Office Coordinator. She handles the logistics for eScience internal events and meetings and the day to day function of the eScience Studio. Prior to joining eScience, Jenny was the Office and Events Center Manager at the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. Before that she was at the Foster School of…

• Janet Kim

  

  Janet is the fiscal specialist at the eScience Institute. She is responsible for complex fiscal administrative support for the institute directors, faculty, data scientists, postdocs, and research assistants working with the eScience Institute. Prior to joining eScience, Janet was Program Coordinator at Seattle Central College for the President’s Office and Research Funds Coordinator for the…

• Spencer Wood

  

  Spencer Wood is a Research Scientist and Data Science Fellow with the eScience Institute. He is also an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, the Director of the UW Outdoor Recreation & Data Lab, a Senior Fellow with the Natural Capital Project at Stanford University, and a UW Nature & Health Steering Committee member. Spencer…

• Anissa Tanweer

  

  Anissa Tanweer is a Senior Social Scientist at the eScience Institute, an Affiliate Faculty member in the Department of Communication, and a sociotechnical expert for the Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC). She conducts ethnographic research on the practice and culture of computationally-mediated science, and applies a sociotechnical lens to the design and implementation of training…

• Valentina Staneva

  

  Valentina Staneva started as a data scientist at the eScience Institute in March, 2015. Prior to joining University of Washington, she was a PhD student at the Applied Mathematics & Statistics Department at Johns Hopkins University. Her research was with the Center for Imaging Science and was devoted to developing methods for tracking deforming objects…

• Ariel Rokem

  

  Ariel Rokem is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Washington Department of Psychology. He received a PhD in neuroscience from UC Berkeley (2010) and additional postdoctoral training in computational neuroimaging at Stanford (2011 – 2015). He was also previously a Senior Data Scientist at the University of Washington eScience Institute (2015-2020) He leads…

• Vaughn Iverson

  

  Vaughn Iverson is a Senior Research Scientist with the Center for Environmental Genomics in the UW School of Oceanography, where his research involves developing biological sensing methods capable of inferring the behaviors and interactions within natural microbial communities by identifying and quantifying genes and proteins used by specific members of the community (metagenomics and metatranscriptomics).…

• Bernease Herman

  

  Bernease Herman joins the eScience Institute as a Data Scientist. Bernease was most recently a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, where she collaborated with operations research scientists and statisticians to add economic constraints and buying models to Amazon’s Inventory Planning and Control system. Previous to Amazon, Bernease worked on derivatives pricing and predictive modeling at…

• Scott Henderson

  

  My research strives to understand active tectonic processes including earthquakes and volcanism through geodetic measurements and numerical modeling. I use a variety of satellite systems such as Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) and Global Positioning Satellites (GPS) to detect and monitor displacements of the Earth’s surface. These measurements then constrain models of physical processes occurring…