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Cecilia Aragon is a Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington and a Senior Data Science Fellow at the eScience Institute. She directs the Human-Centered Data Science Lab, where she conducts research focused on human-centered data science, a rapidly evolving field that intersects with human-computer interaction (HCI) and computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW). With a background as a data scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for six years, she acquired her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004. Aragon also holds a B.S. in Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology. Her work emphasizes the development of collaborative visual analytics tools that facilitate data science and examines current scientific practices involving large and complex data sets. She has authored and co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications in HCI, CSCW, data science, visual analytics, and machine learning, and has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2008 for her significant contributions to collaborative data-intensive science.
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