John Howard
Founder And CEO at ISO - International Organization for Standardization
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Howard is the founder and CEO of Sensus AI, an independent firm that provides high-end test, evaluation, and audit services to help enterprises operate AI and biometric systems with confidence. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and brings over a decade of hands-on experience evaluating biometric performance, fairness, and operational behavior across industry, government, and academia. As lead editor on two ISO/IEC biometric standards and a former Chief Data Scientist at SAIC, he blends rigorous technical measurement with real-world regulatory and policy impact. His research on bias, human–algorithm interaction, and socio-technical testing has informed NIST, OSTP, congressional testimony, and national academies, and been cited in major media. Based in Washington, D.C., he also advises students and faculty as a research fellow at SMU’s AT&T Center, bridging research and applied testing. A polyglot engineer (C/C++, Python, Go, TensorFlow, Kubernetes, Hadoop, OpenCV) who moves between code, standards, and policy, he specializes in making AI systems auditable and trustworthy in production.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D Computer Science, Ph.D Computer Science at Southern Methodist University
Stackoverflow
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43answers
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Github Skills (22)
notebook10
java10
database10
nosql9
javascript9
spark9
data-driven9
scala9
sql9
data-analytics8
big-data8
analytics8
testing8
na6
boost6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (3)
TheMdTF/mdtf-public
Nov 2018 - Aug 2022
Public code repository for the Maryland Test Facility
Contributions:22 reviews, 32 commits, 52 PRs in 3 years 9 months
testingfacilitycode-repositorymarylandpublic-code
apache/zeppelin
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Web-based notebook that enables data-driven, interactive data analytics and collaborative documents with SQL, Scala and more.
Contributions:3 comments in 1 month
data-drivendata-analyticsanalyticsnosqlflink
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