Talitha Washington, Ph.D.
Data Science Researcher
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Affiliation
Executive Director, Center for Applied Data Science and Analytics, Sean McCleese Endowed Chair in Computer Science, Race, and Social Justice
Biography
The Howard University Center for Applied Data Science and Analytics has named Talitha Washington, Ph.D., as its new executive director. Through research and academic programming, the center focuses on using data to achieve new insights into long-standing societal challenges and to protect the exploitation of data to harm historically marginalized groups. Washington will also hold the Sean McCleese Endowed Chair in Computer Science, Race, and Social Justice, which supports scholarship, teaching, policy development and partnership building to ensure that emerging technologies and data analysis are equitable in their design and deployed to make the United States – and the world – a more just and inclusive place. Washington is also the director of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s National Data Science Alliance (NSF NDSA).