Bill Howe
Program Director And Faculty Chair, UW Data Science Masters Degree
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBill Howe is a data systems researcher and academic leader with 15+ years building infrastructure for data-intensive science, currently serving as Program Director and Faculty Chair for the UW Data Science Master's and Associate Director of the eScience Institute. He designs database-as-a-service platforms (e.g., SQLShare and Myria) that help scientists query large public datasets rather than rely solely on primary experiments, and his work includes a query language for gridded simulation data. Bill blends hands-on technical contributions—maintaining popular data science course materials on Coursera—with interdisciplinary program building across six departments and partnerships with major foundations and universities. Based in Seattle, he combines a PhD in Computer Science and industry experience in systems integration to translate research prototypes into scalable educational and research services.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Oregon Health & Science UniversityBS, Indutrial and Systems Engineering, BS, Indutrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Portland State University
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Github Skills (6)
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Github contributions (5)
uwescience/datasci_course_materials
Apr 2013 - Mar 2017
Public repository for course materials for the Data Science at Scale Specialization at Coursera
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:62 commits, 2 PRs, 26 pushes in 4 years
Contributions summary:Bill appears to be focused on modifying and preparing course materials for a data science specialization. Their commits primarily involve HTML file updates, including content adjustments and removal of outdated assignments. These revisions indicate the user's role in refining and structuring course content, particularly focusing on assignment details and the presentation of learning materials related to data science principles.
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uwescience/courses
Sep 2012 - Jan 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 3 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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