Faculty

Ed Lazowska is a Professor, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair emeritus, in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington.

Lazowska’s research and teaching concern the design, implementation, and analysis of computing and communication systems, and, more recently, the techniques and technologies of data-intensive discovery; from 2008-17 he served as the Founding Director of the University of Washington eScience Institute, where he continues as a Senior Data Science Fellow.

Lazowska also has been active on public policy issues, ranging from STEM education to Federal strategies for research and innovation; he currently serves on the National Academies Committee on Science, Engineering, Medicine, and Public Policy. A long-time advocate for increasing participation in the field, he has served on the Executive Advisory Council of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and on the National Academies Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine; he served on the study committee that authored the Academies’ 2018 report on the impacts of sexual harassment in academia.

Lazowska has served as a board member or technical advisor for a number of high-tech companies, venture firms, and technology-oriented civic organizations, currently including the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Madrona Venture Group, and Pioneer Square Labs. He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering (and served as a Councillor from 2018-24) and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.