Group: Research and Engineering Staff

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…
Joseph Hellerstein

Joseph L. Hellerstein is a Senior Data Science Fellow and Research Scientist at the UW eScience Institute. He is an Affiliate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, and is a member of the UW Graduate Faculty. His major projects focus on the analysis of biological systems such as: predicting the phenotypes of microbe communities and…
Bryna Hazelton

Bryna Hazelton is a senior research scientist in the Physics department and the eScience Institute. She is also the eScience Director of Research Programs. Bryna is an expert in advanced statistical measurements and workflows for processing petabyte-scale data. She is particularly interested in understanding subtle systematics in precision measurements with deep experience in Fourier analysis…
Rob Fatland

Rob Fatland is the UW Director of Cloud and Data Solutions. He has formerly worked at NASA and Microsoft Research and has a PhD in Geophysics. His interests are in data science across the full spectrum from acquisition to collaboration with emphases on remote sensing, sensor networks, visualization, data systems and (domain-wise) the earth’s hydrosphere. He…
Nicoleta Cristea

I am a research scientist in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UW, a research scientist with the UW Freshwater Initiative, and a data science fellow at the UW eScience Institute. My work to date has addressed various areas of freshwater research, including snow, evapotranspiration, groundwater, and stream heating processes. My current research focus…