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Biographical Sketches of Roundtable Members

ERIC KOLACZYK (Co-Chair) is a professor of mathematics and statistics at Boston University. He obtained a B.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Chicago and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in statistics from Stanford University. He has been on the faculty in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Boston University since 1998, and was faculty in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago before that. He also has been visiting faculty at Harvard University and Université Paris VII. He currently teaches an annual short course at École Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Économique (ENSAE) in Paris. Professor Kolaczyk’s main research interests currently revolve around the statistical analysis of network-indexed data, and include both the development of basic methodology and interdisciplinary work with collaborators in bioinformatics, computer science, geography, neuroscience, and sociology. Besides various research articles on these topics, he has also authored two books in this area: Statistical Analysis of Network Data: Methods and Models (2009) and, joint with Gabor Csardi, Statistical Analysis of Network Data in R (2014). Prior to his working in the area of networks, Professor Kolaczyk spent a decade working on statistical multiscale modeling. He is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), an elected senior member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), and a member of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS).

KATHLEEN R. M KEOWN (Co-Chair) is the Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University and she also serves as the director of the Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering. She served as department chair from 1998 to 2003 and as vice dean for research for the School of Engineering and Applied Science for 2 years. Dr. McKeown received a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982 and has been at Columbia since then. Her research interests include text summarization, natural language generation, multi-media explanation, question-answering, and multilingual applications. In 1985 she received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Presidential Young Investigator Award, in 1991 she received a NSF Faculty Award for Women, in 1994 she was selected as a Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) fellow, in 2003 she was elected as a fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), and in 2012 she was selected as one of the founding fellows of the Association for Computational Linguistics. In 2010, she received the Anita Borg Women of Vision Award in Innovation for her work on text summarization. Dr. McKeown is also quite active nationally. She has served as president, vice president, and secretary-treasurer of the Association of Computational Linguistics. She has also served as a board member of the Computing Research Association and as secretary of the board.

JOHN M. ABOWD is the Edmund Ezra Day Professor of Economics and a professor of statistics and information science at Cornell University and the associate director for research and methodology and chief scientist at the U.S. Census Bureau. At the Census, he leads a directorate of research centers, each devoted to domains of investigation important to the future of social and economic statistics. At Cornell, his primary appointment remains in the Department of Economics in the ILR School. He is also research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, research affiliate at the Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST, Paris, France), research fellow at the Institute for Labor Economics (IZA, Bonn, Germany), and research fellow at IAB (Institut für Arbeitsmarkt-und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg, Germany). Dr. Abowd is the director of the Labor Dynamics Institute (LDI) at Cornell. He is the past president (2014-2015) and fellow of the Society of Labor Economists. He is past chair (2013) of the Business and Economic Statistics Section and fellow of the ASA. He is an elected member of the ISI. Dr. Abowd is also a fellow of the Econometric Society. He served as a Distinguished Senior Research Fellow at the Census Bureau (1998-2016). He served on the National Academies’ Committee on National Statistics (2010-2016). He currently serves on the American Economic Association’s Committee on Economic Statistics (2013-2018). He served as director of the Cornell

Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER) from 1999 to 2007. Dr. Abowd has taught and done research at Cornell University since 1987, including 7 years on the faculty of the Johnson Graduate School of Management. His current research and many activities of the LDI focus on the creation, dissemination, privacy protection, and use of linked, longitudinal data on employees and employers. In his earlier work at the Census Bureau he provided scientific leadership for the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) Program, which produces research and public-use data integrating censuses, demographic surveys, economic surveys, and administrative data. The LEHD Program’s public use data products include the Quarterly Workforce Indicators, the most detailed time series data produced on the demographic characteristics of local American labor markets, and OnTheMap, a user-driven mapping tool for studying work-related commuting patterns. His original and ongoing research on integrated labor market data is done in collaboration with the Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques (INSEE), the French national statistical institute. Dr. Abowd’s other research interests include network models for integrated labor market data, statistical methods for confidentiality protection of micro-data, international comparisons of labor market outcomes, executive compensation with a focus on international comparisons, bargaining and other wage-setting institutions, and the econometric tools of labor market analysis. He served on the faculty at Princeton University, the University of Chicago, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) before joining Cornell.

DEB AGARWAL is a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research focuses on scientific tools that enable sharing of scientific experiments, advanced networking infrastructure to support sharing of scientific data, data analysis support infrastructure for eco-science, and cybersecurity infrastructure to secure collaborative environments. Dr. Agarwal is a senior fellow at the Berkeley Institute for Data science and an Inria International Chair, where she co-leads the DALHIS (Data Analysis on Large-scale Heterogeneous Infrastructures for Science) Inria Associated team. Dr. Agarwal also leads teams developing data server infrastructure to significantly enhance data browsing and analysis capabilities and enable eco-science synthesis at the watershed-scale to understand hydrologic and conservation questions and at the global-scale to understand carbon flux. Some of the projects Dr. Agarwal is working on include Genomes to Watersheds SFA2.0, AmeriFlux Management Project, FLUXNET, International Soil Carbon Network, and NGEE Tropics. Dr. Agarwal received her Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Purdue University.

RON BRACHMAN is the director of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute and a professor of computer science at Cornell University. He is responsible for the oversight of all institute activities and programs, continuing to develop its vision and strategy and grow it into a completely new role model of innovation for graduate education, while training new leaders who use deep science to change the world. Dr. Brachman received his B.S.E.E. from Princeton University (1971), from which he graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He received his S.M. (1972) and Ph.D. (1977) degrees in applied mathematics from Harvard University. His research specialization was artificial intelligence, specifically, knowledge representation and reasoning, an area in which he went on to become a world-renowned authority, authoring dozens of highly cited research papers, creating the new field of description logics, and co-authoring a leading textbook. Before joining Cornell Tech, Dr. Brachman had an outstanding career in research and research leadership at world-leading institutions such as Bell Labs, AT&T Labs, DARPA, and Yahoo Labs. At these institutions, he was responsible for recruiting world-class research teams and creating and leading innovative research and academic relationship programs. Dr. Brachman has served as president of AAAI and currently serves on the board of directors of the Computing Research Association. He is a fellow of ACM, IEEE, and AAAI.

JEFFREY BROCK is professor of mathematics and dean of science at Yale University. He focuses on low-dimensional geometry and topology, particularly on spaces with hyperbolic geometry (the most prevalent kind of non-Euclidean geometry). His joint work with R. Canary and Y. Minsky resulted in a solution to the “ending lamination conjecture” of W. Thurston, giving a kind of classification theorem for hyperbolic three-dimensional manifolds that are topologically finite in terms of certain pieces of “mathematical DNA” called laminations. He received his undergraduate degree in mathematics at Yale University and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied under Curtis McMullen. After holding postdoctoral positions at Stanford University and the University of Chicago, he joined Brown University as an associate professor. He was awarded the Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellowship to visit the University of Texas and has had continuous National Science Foundation (NSF) support since receiving his Ph.D. In 2008, he was awarded a John S. Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.

ALOK CHOUDHARY is the Henry and Isabel Dever Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He is the founding director of the Center for Ultra-scale Computing and Information Security

(CUCIS), which involves several schools, national labs, and universities. Professor Choudhary is a fellow of the IEEE, fellow of the ACM, and a fellow of the American Academy of Advancement of Science (AAAS). Professor Choudhary is the founder, chair, and chief scientist of 4C, which is a big-data science and social media analytics company. 4C is formerly known as VoxSup, Inc., and Professor Choudhary served as its CEO from 2011 to 2013. He was a co-founder and vice president of technology of Accelchip, Inc., in 2000, which was eventually acquired by Xilinx. Professor Choudhary served as the chair of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department from 2007 to 2011. From 1989 to 1996, he was on the faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Syracuse University. He is the recipient of the prestigious NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1993. He has also received an IEEE Engineering Foundation award, an IBM Faculty Development award, and an Intel Research Council award. In 2006, he received the first award for “Excellence in Research, Teaching and Service” from the McCormick School of Engineering. Professor Choudhary received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1989, an M.S. degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1986, and his B.E. (Hons.) degree from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, in 1982.

E. THOMAS EWING is an associate dean for graduate studies, research, and diversity in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences and a professor in the Department of History at Virginia Tech. His education included a B.A. from Williams College and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan. He teaches courses in digital humanities and created the course Data in Social Context. His publications include, as author, Separate Schools: Gender, Policy, and Practice in the Postwar Soviet Union (2010) and The Teachers of Stalinism: Policy, Practice, and Power in Soviet Schools in the 1930s (2002); as editor, Revolution and Pedagogy: Transnational Perspectives on the Social Foundations of Education (2005); and as co-editor, with David Hicks, Education and the Great Depression: Lessons from a Global History (2006). He has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Spencer Foundation, and the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research.

EMILY FOX is an associate professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering and Department of Statistics at the University of Washington, and is the Amazon Professor of Machine Learning. She received an S.B. in 2004 and Ph.D. in 2009 from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. She has been awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

(2017), Sloan Research Fellowship (2015), Office of Naval Research Young Investigator award (2015), NSF CAREER award (2014), National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Leonard J. Savage Thesis Award in Applied Methodology (2009), and MIT EECS Jin-Au Kong Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Prize (2009). Her research interests are in large-scale Bayesian dynamic modeling and computations.

JAMES FREW is an associate professor in the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at UCSB and a principal investigator (PI) in UCSB’s Earth Research Institute (ERI). His research interests lie in the emerging field of environmental informatics, a synthesis of computer, information, and Earth sciences. He is interested in information architectures that improve the discoverability, usability, and reliability of distributed environmental information. Trained as a geographer, he has worked in remote sensing, image processing, software architecture, massive distributed data systems, and digital libraries. His current research is focused on geospatial information provenance, science data curation, and applications of array databases, using remote sensing data products as operational test beds. He has affiliate appointments in UCSB’s Departments of Geography and Computer Science. He received his Ph.D. in geography from UCSB in 1990. As part of his doctoral research, he developed the Image Processing Workbench, an open source set of software tools for remote sensing image processing. He served as both the manager and the acting director of UCSB’s Computer Systems Laboratory (ERI’s predecessor), and as the associate director of the Sequoia 2000 Project, a 3-year $14 million multicampus consortium formed to investigate large-scale data management aspects of global change problems. He was a co-PI on the Alexandria Project (part of NSF’s Digital Libraries Initiative), where he directed the development of the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype (ADEPT) testbed system. He also served on the National Academies Committee on Earth Science Data Utilization and as president (2009-2011) of the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners. During the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a visiting professor at the University of Edinburgh’s Digital Curation Centre.

CONSTANTINE GATSONIS is the Henry Ledyard Goddard University Professor of Biostatistics at Brown University School of Public Health. He is the founding chair of the Department of Biostatistics and the founding director of the Center for Statistical Sciences at Brown. Dr. Gatsonis is a leading authority on the evaluation of diagnostic and screening tests and evidence synthesis for diagnostic accuracy studies. He has also made

major contributions to the development of methods for medical technology assessment and health services and outcomes research. Dr. Gatsonis is a co-founder of the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) and is now a group statistician for the ECOG-ACRIN collaborative group, a National Cancer Institute–funded collaborative group conducting multicenter studies across the spectrum of cancer care. Dr. Gatsonis chairs the National Academies Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics and is a member of the Committee on National Statistics and the Committee to Evaluate the Department of Veterans Affairs Mental Health Services. He has previously served on National Academies committees for a variety of scientific and health-related topics, including forensic science, comparative effectiveness research, immunization safety, aviation security, and modified-risk tobacco products. Dr. Gatsonis was the founding editor-in-chief of Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology and currently serves as associate editor of the Annals of Applied Statistics. He was also elected fellow of the ASA and received the 2015 Long-Term Excellence Award from the Health Policy Statistics section of the ASA. He has a B.A. in mathematics from Princeton University, an M.A. in mathematics from Cornell University, and a Ph.D. in mathematical statistics from Cornell University.

LISE GETOOR is a professor in the Computer Science Department at University of California, Santa Cruz, and the director of its D3 Data Science Center. Her research areas include machine learning and reasoning under uncertainty; in addition, she works in data management, visual analytics, and social network analysis. She has more than 200 publications and is a fellow of the AAAI, and an elected board member of the International Machine Learning Society, serves on the board of the Computing Research Association, and has served as Machine Learning Journal action editor, associate editor for the ACM Transactions of Knowledge Discovery from Data, JAIR associate editor, and on the AAAI Council. She is a recipient of an NSF Career award and 11 best paper and best student paper awards. In 2014, she was recognized as one of the top 10 emerging researchers in data mining and data science based on citation and impact according to KD Nuggets. She is on the external advisory board of the San Diego Super Computer Center, and the scientific advisory board for the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, and has served on the advisory board for companies including Sentient Technologies. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2001, her M.S. from UC Berkeley, and her B.S. from UCSB, and was a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, from 2001 to 2013.

MARK L. GREEN is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

He received his B.S. from MIT and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University. After teaching at the UC Berkeley and MIT, he joined UCLA as an assistant professor in 1975. He was a founding co-director and later director of the NSF-funded Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics. Dr. Green’s research has taken him into different areas of mathematics: several complex variables, differential geometry, commutative algebra, Hodge theory, and algebraic geometry. He received an Alfred P. Sloan fellowship, was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin in 1998 and gave the Chern Medal plenary laudation at the International Conference of Mathematicians in Seoul in 2014, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the AAAS, and of the American Mathematical Society. Professor Green served as vice chair of the high-profile Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics study on The Mathematical Sciences in 2025, and on the International Advisory Panel for the Canadian Long Range Planning Study for Mathematics. He was part of the U.S. Delegation to the General Assembly of the International Mathematical Union in Bangalore in 2010 and chair of the Committee of Visitors for the Division of Mathematical Sciences at NSF in 2013. He has served on the scientific boards of the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, and the Banff International Research Station, and was a trustee of the American Mathematical Society. He served on the Mathematical Advisory Panel for the exhibition “Man Ray: Human Equations” at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. He serves on the board of governors of the group Transforming Postsecondary Education in Math, the Advisory Committee of the Association for Women in Mathematics, and on the National Academies Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics.

ALFRED O. HERO III is the R. Jamison and Betty Williams Professor of Engineering at the University of Michigan. He received a B.S. (summa cum laude) from Boston University (1980) and a Ph.D. from Princeton University (1984), both in electrical engineering. His primary appointment is in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and he also has appointments, by courtesy, in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Statistics. In 2008, he was awarded the Digiteo Chaire d’Excellence, sponsored by Digiteo Research Park in Paris, located at the École Supérieure d’Électricité, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. He is an IEEE fellow, and several of his research articles have received best paper awards. Professor Hero was awarded the University of Michigan Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award (2011). He received the IEEE Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award (1998) and the IEEE Third Millenium Medal (2000). He was president of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2006-2008) and was on the board

of directors of the IEEE (2009-2011), where he served as director of Division IX (Signals and Applications). Dr. Hero’s recent research interests have been in detection, classification, pattern analysis, and adaptive sampling for spatiotemporal data. Of particular interest are applications to network security, multimodal sensing and tracking, biomedical imaging, and genomic signal processing.

NICHOLAS J. HORTON is a professor of statistics at Amherst College. He has taught a variety of courses in statistics and related fields and is passionate about improving quantitative and computational literacy for students with a variety of backgrounds as well as engagement and mastery of higher-level concepts and capacities to undertake research. He is the chair of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies and has served on the board of directors of the ASA and as chair of the Statistical Education Section of the ASA. He has published more than 150 papers in statistics and biomedical research and 4 books on statistical computing and data science. He has been the recipient of a number of national teaching awards. As an applied biostatistician, Dr. Horton’s work is based squarely within the mathematical sciences, but spans other fields in order to ensure that research is conducted on a sound footing. The real-world research problems that these investigators face often require the use of novel solutions and approaches, because existing methodology is sometimes inadequate. Bridging the gap between theory and practice in interdisciplinary settings is often a challenge, and has been a particular focus of Dr. Horton’s work. Dr. Horton earned his Sc.D. in biostatistics from the Harvard School of Public Health.

ERIC HORVITZ is a technical fellow and director at Microsoft Research. His interests include theoretical and practical challenges with developing computing systems that can learn from data and that can perceive, reason, and make decisions. His efforts and collaborations have led to fielded systems in the areas of online services, healthcare, transportation, ecommerce, operating systems, and aerospace. He has received the Feigenbaum Prize and the ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Prize for his contributions to artificial intelligence. He has been elected fellow of AAAI, ACM, and the National Academy of Engineering. He served as president of the AAAI and on advisory boards for the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, NSF, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), and on the National Academies Computer Science and Telecommunications Board. He is co-chair of the Partnership on AI to Benefit People and Society, recently announced by Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM, and Microsoft. He did his doctoral work at Stanford University.

BILL HOWE is an associate professor in the Information School, adjunct associate professor in computer science and engineering, and associate director of the University of Washington (UW) eScience Institute. His research interests are in data management, curation, analytics, and visualization in the sciences. Dr. Howe played a leadership role in the Data Science Environment program at UW through a $32.8 million grant awarded jointly to UW, New York University, and UC Berkeley. With support from the MacArthur Foundation and Microsoft, Dr. Howe leads UW’s participation in the national MetroLab Network focused on smart cities and data-intensive urban science. He also led the creation of the UW Data Science Master’s Degree and serves as its inaugural program director and faculty chair. He has received two Jim Gray Seed Grant awards from Microsoft Research for work on managing environmental data, has had two papers selected for Very Large Databases “Best of Conference” issues (2004 and 2010), and co-authored what are currently the most-cited papers from both Very Large Databases (2010) and Special Interest Group on Management of Data (2012). Dr. Howe serves on the program and organizing committees for a number of conferences in the area of databases and scientific data management, developed a first massive open online course (MOOC) on data science that attracted more than 200,000 students across two offerings, and founded UW’s Data Science for Social Good program. He has a Ph.D. in computer science from Portland State University and a bachelor’s degree in industrial and systems engineering from Georgia Tech.

CHARLES ISBELL has been a leader in education efforts both at Georgia Tech’s College of Computing, where he is senior associate dean for academic affairs, and nationally, where he has co-chaired the Computing Research Association’s Subcommittee on Education and currently co-chairs the Coalition to Diversify Computing. At Georgia Tech, Dr. Isbell was one of the co-leaders of Threads. Threads is a successful, comprehensive restructuring of the computing curriculum that provided a cohesive, coordinated set of contexts or threads for teaching and learning computing skills, with a goal of making computing more inclusive, relevant, and exciting for a much broader audience. Dr. Isbell has won numerous teaching awards. Dr. Isbell received his Ph.D. from MIT. His research focuses on artificial intelligence and machine learning.

MARK E. KRZYSKO is deputy director of Enterprise Information for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics Acquisition Resources and Analysis. In this role, Mr. Krzysko champions and facilitates innovative uses of information technologies to improve and streamline the acquisition process. Prior to this position, he served as the deputy director of Defense Procurement and

Acquisition Policy in the Electronic Business Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics. He also served as the division director of Electronic Commerce Solutions for the Naval Air Systems Command, in various senior-level acquisition positions at the Naval Air Systems Command, and as program manager of partnering, the Acquisition Business Process Reengineering Effort, and as acquisition program manager for the Program Executive Office for Tactical Aircraft. Mr. Krzysko began his career in the private retail sector in various executive and managerial positions. He holds a B.S. degree in finance and a master of general administration in financial management from the University of Maryland, University College.

DUNCAN TEMPLE LANG is a professor in the Department of Statistics and director of the Data Sciences Initiative at the University of California, Davis. He joined UC Davis in January 2004. Prior to that, Dr. Temple Lang worked in the Statistics and Data Mining group at Bell Labs, the research arm of Lucent Technologies. He graduated from UC Berkeley with a Ph.D. in statistics, primarily in statistical computing systems. Although trained in statistics, the focus of his research is innovations in information technology and integrating computer science research concepts with the process of scientific and statistical research. An important aspect of his work is to facilitate the integration of software from different communities. Dr. Temple Lang returned to academia from industrial research with the purpose of introducing modern statistical computing to the statistics curriculum.

RACHEL LEVY joined the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) in Fall 2018 as deputy executive director. She came from Harvey Mudd College, where she was a professor of mathematics and associate dean for faculty development. As vice president for education for the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, she advocated internationally for mathematical modeling education connecting K-16 to careers. She has co-authored a partial differential equations (PDE) text, and served as a lead author of the Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Mathematical Modeling Education and The BIG Jobs Guide. She was a recipient of the 2016 Harvey Mudd College Outstanding Faculty Member Award and was recognized by Princeton University Press in “The Best Writing on Mathematics” series. She received a 2016-2017 National Council of Teachers of Mathematics award for linking research and practice and received a 2013 MAA Alder Award for teaching.

BRANDEIS MARSHALL is an associate professor of computer science and chair of the Computer and Information Sciences Department at Spelman College. She received her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in computer science

from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and her B.S. in computer science from the University of Rochester. Her research lies in the areas of information retrieval, data science, data mining, and social media. Dr. Marshall is the PI of an NSF HBCU-UP Targeted Infusion Project titled Data Science eXtension (http://dsxhub.org) that is integrating data science fundamentals into courses at Spelman and Morehouse Colleges. Dr. Marshall is also the director of the Data Analytics and Exploration (da+e) Laboratory, a research and education environment that aims to address real-world data issues, challenges, and solutions funded by federal and industry organizations. The da+e lab activities include timely data acquisition for aviation, BlackTwitter Project, and data/database security curricular development. She is active in mentoring the next generation of STEM professionals, particularly those from underrepresented groups. These engagements include but are not limited to serving on the program committees for the ACM Richard Tapia Diversity in Computing Conference and Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. From 2013 to 2016, she co-chaired the Broadening Participation in Data Mining Program (BPDM), co-located with the ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. BPDM fosters mentorship, guidance, and connections of minority and underrepresented groups in data mining, while also enriching technical aptitude and exposure.

CHRIS MENTZEL is director of the Data-Driven Discovery Initiative at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Previously, he led the grants administration department and also worked as senior network engineer for the foundation. He has also held positions as a systems engineer and integrator at UC Berkeley and at various Internet consulting firms in the Bay Area. An active member of the broader big data and open science communities, Mr. Mentzel serves on a number of advisory boards and program committees and speaks frequently at conferences and workshops on topics related to data-driven research. He received a B.A. in mathematics from the UC Santa Cruz and an M.Sc. in management science and engineering at Stanford University.

NINA MISHRA is a principal scientist at Amazon in Palo Alto, California. Her research interests are in data science, data mining, web search, machine learning, and privacy. Dr. Mishra has more than 16 years of experience leading projects in industry at Microsoft Research and HP Labs and more than 6 years of experience in academia as an associate professor at the University of Virginia and acting faculty at Stanford University. The projects that Dr. Mishra pursues encompass the design and evaluation of new data mining algorithms on real, colossal-sized data sets. She has authored ~50 publications in top venues including Web Search: WWW,

WSDM, SIGIR; Machine Learning: ICML, NIPS, AAAI, COLT; Databases: VLDB, PODS; Cryptography: CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT; and Theory: FOCS and SODA. She has been granted 13 patent applications with a dozen more still in the application stage. Dr. Mishra received her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

DEBORAH NOLAN is the chair of the Statistics Department and holds the Zaffaroni Family Chair at UC Berkeley. Her research has involved the empirical process, high-dimensional modeling, cross-validation, and most recently technology in education and reproducible research. Professor Nolan has been recognized at UC Berkeley for excellence in teaching and undergraduate student advising and is noted for working with and encouraging all students in their understanding of statistics. She co-directs the Cal Teach and Math for America, Berkeley, programs. Dr. Nolan also organizes Explorations in Statistics Research, a multicampus summer program to encourage undergraduates to pursue graduate studies in statistics. She is an elected fellow of the ASA and a fellow of the IMS. She is co-author of Stat Labs with Terry Speed, Teaching Statistics with Andrew Gelman, and Data Science in R with Duncan Temple Lang. Dr. Nolan received her A.B. from Vassar College and her Ph.D. in statistics from Yale University.

PETER NORVIG is a director of research at Google, Inc. He previously directed Google’s core search algorithms group. He is co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, the leading textbook in the field, and co-teacher of an artificial intelligence class that signed up 160,000 students, helping to kick off the current round of massive open online classes. He is a fellow of the AAAI, ACM, California Academy of Science, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

ANTONIO ORTEGA received a telecommunications engineering degree from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, in 1989 and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Columbia University in 1994. In 1994, he joined the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Southern California (USC), where he is currently a professor and has served as associate chair. He is also a visiting professor at National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan. He is a fellow of the IEEE and a member of ACM and Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA). He is currently a member of the board of governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the inaugural editor-in-chief of the APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing, and a senior area editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. He has received several paper awards, including most recently the 2016 IEEE Signal Processing

Magazine Award. His recent research work has focused on multiview coding, error tolerant compression, wavelet-based signal analysis, wireless sensor networks, and graph signal processing. Close to 40 Ph.D. students have completed their Ph.D. thesis under his supervision at USC, and his work has led to about 400 publications in international conferences and journals, as well as several patents.

CLAUDIA PERLICH is the chief scientist at Dstillery, leading the machine learning efforts that power Dstillery’s digital intelligence for marketers and media companies. With more than 50 published scientific articles, she is a widely acclaimed expert on big data and machine learning applications, and an active speaker at data science and marketing conferences around the world. Dr. Perlich is the past winner of the Advertising Research Foundation’s Grand Innovation Award and has been selected for Crain’s New York’s 40 Under 40 list, Wired Magazine’s Smart List, and Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People. Dr. Perlich holds multiple patents in machine learning. She has won many data mining competitions and awards at Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining conferences, and served as the organization’s general chair in 2014. Prior to joining Dstillery in 2010, Dr. Perlich worked at IBM’s Watson Research Center, focusing on data analytics and machine learning. She holds a Ph.D. in information systems from New York University (where she continues to teach at the Stern School of Business) and an M.A. in computer science from the University of Colorado.

PATRICK O. PERRY is a statistician developing tools and methodology for nontraditional data, especially text and networks. He has worked on text summarization and scaling methods, dynamic network analysis, clustering methods for networks and other data, fitting methods for large-scale hierarchical models, and latent factor methods for high-dimensional data. His work has appeared in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, the Annals of Applied Statistics, and the Journal of Machine Learning Research, among other venues. Dr. Perry has developed and released open source implementations of his methods for the R software environment, and he has written a variety of other software packages for data analysis in the C and Haskell programming languages. Currently, Dr. Perry is an assistant professor of information, operations, and management sciences at the New York University Stern School of Business. He teaches courses in introductory statistics, forecasting time series data, and statistics for social data. Dr. Perry received a B.S. in mathematics, an M.S. in electrical engineering, and a Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University, and he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University.

MEHRAN SAHAMI is a professor (teaching) and associate chair for education in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. He is also the Robert and Ruth Halperin University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. Dr. Sahami’s research interests include computer science education, machine learning, and web search. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty in 2007, he was a senior research scientist at Google. He served as co-chair of the ACM/IEEE-CS joint task force on Computer Science Curricula 2013, which created curricular guidelines for college programs in computer science at an international level. Dr. Sahami is also immediate past co-chair of the ACM Education Board and was appointed by California Governor Jerry Brown to serve on the K12 California CS Strategic Implementation Advisory Panel. He co-founded the Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) and the ACM Conference on Learning at Scale (L@S).

VICTORIA STODDEN is an associate professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is a leading figure in the area of reproducibility in computational science, exploring how we can better ensure the reliability and usefulness of scientific results in the face of increasingly sophisticated computational approaches to research. Her work addresses a wide range of topics, including standards of openness for data and code sharing, legal and policy barriers to disseminating reproducible research, robustness in replicated findings, cyberinfrastructure to enable reproducibility, and scientific publishing practices. Dr. Stodden co-chairs the NSF Advisory Committee for CyberInfrastructure and is a member of the NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Advisory Committee. She also serves on the National Academies Committee on Responsible Science: Ensuring the Integrity of the Research Process. Previously an assistant professor of statistics at Columbia University, Dr. Stodden taught courses in data science, reproducible research, and statistical theory and was affiliated with the Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering. She co-edited two books released in 2014—Privacy, Big Data, and the Public Good: Frameworks for Engagement and Implementing Reproducible Research. Dr. Stodden earned both her Ph.D. in statistics and her law degree from Stanford University. She also holds a master’s degree in economics from the University of British Columbia and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Ottawa.

URI TREISMAN is executive director of the Charles A. Dana Center for Mathematics and Science Education and a University Distinguished Teaching Professor of Mathematics and Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin. He is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Education

Commission of the States and chair of the Strong Start to Finish (SSTF) campaign’s expert advisory board, a joint initiative of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Kresge Foundation, and the Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corporation. SSTF is focused on supporting innovation at scale in American higher education (strongstart.org). Dr. Treisman is active in the leadership of organizations working to improve American mathematics education. He is a founding member of Transforming Postsecondary Education in Mathematics (tpsemath.org) and serves as the representative of the American Mathematical Society to the AAAS (Education, Section Q). He leads the Dana Center Mathematics Pathways (dcmathpathways.org), an initiative that works to modernize entry-level college mathematics course sequences, and the Urban Mathematics Leadership Network, which supports mathematics leadership teams in America’s largest urban school districts. He has served on the STEM working group of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, on the 21st-Century Commission on the Future of Community Colleges of the American Association of Community Colleges, and on the Carnegie/IAS Commission on Mathematics and Science Education. For his work in nurturing minority student high achievement in postsecondary mathematics, he was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1992 and the Harvard Foundation’s Scientist of the Year in 2006.

MARK TYGERT is a research scientist for Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research. Prior to this position, he was on the faculty at NYU’s Courant Institute, UCLA, and Yale University. He received his B.A. in mathematics from Princeton University and his Ph.D. from Yale University. His research has focused on fast spherical harmonic transforms, randomized algorithms for linear algebra, and complements to chi-square tests. His recent honors include the 2010 William O. Baker Award from the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the 2012 DARPA Young Faculty Award. His current research interests are in machine learning, statistics, and computational science and engineering, particularly numerical analysis.

JEFFREY D. ULLMAN is the S.W. Ascherman Professor of Engineering (Emeritus) at Stanford University, where he taught in the Department of Computer Science from 1979 to 2002. He worked at Bell Laboratories from 1966 to 1969 and taught at Princeton University (from which he also received his Ph.D. in 1966) between 1969 and 1979. He is the author or coauthor of widely read textbooks in compilers, databases, and algorithms, as well as the book in automata on which his automata course is based and the book on data mining on which his Mining of Massive Datasets course is based. He is a member of the National Academy of

Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and winner of the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Education award, the IEEE Von Neumann Medal, and the Knuth Prize.

JESSICA UTTS is a professor of statistics at UC Irvine, where she served as chair from 2010 to 2016. During her tenure as chair, the Statistics Department created an undergraduate major in data science. She was also the 2016 president of the ASA, and during her presidential year, the ASA board discussed and endorsed the report Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Programs in Data Science. She received her B.A. in math and psychology at SUNY Binghamton and her M.A. and Ph.D. in statistics at Penn State University. She is the author of Seeing Through Statistics and the co-author with Robert Heckard of Mind on Statistics and Statistical Ideas and Methods. Dr. Utts has been active in the statistics education community at the high school and college levels. She served as a member and then chaired the Advanced Placement Statistics Development Committee for 6 years and currently serves as the chief reader for AP Statistics. She was a member of the ASA task force that produced the Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE) recommendations for elementary statistics courses. She was a founding member of the Statistics Department at UC Davis and spent many years on the faculty before moving to UC Irvine in 2008. She is the recipient of the Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award and the Magnar Ronning Award for Teaching Excellence, both at UC Davis. She is also a fellow of the ASA, the IMS, and the AAAS. Beyond statistics education, Dr. Utts’s major contributions have been in applying statistics to a variety of disciplines, most notably to parapsychology, the laboratory study of psychic phenomena. She has appeared on numerous television shows, including Larry King Live, ABC Nightline, CNN Morning News, and 20/20, and appears in a documentary included on the DVD with the movie Suspect Zero.

JANE YE has been a program officer at NIH for 15 years and currently manages a portfolio of advanced research projects in biomedical informatics with a special focus on bioinformatics and translational informatics. She has graduate degrees from Dartmouth College and Cornell University. Most of the research projects in her portfolio involve the application of computer and information sciences to improve the access, storage, retrieval, management, dissemination, and use of biomedical information. Before joining the NIH, she worked in the private sector as a senior bioinformatics scientist working on genomic data and gene discovery. She made contributions to the sequencing and publishing of the human genome.

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