Contact
Jevin D. West
Associate Professor
Information School
University of Washington
Box 352840, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
Associate Professor
Information School
University of Washington
Box 352840, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
Email: jevinw@uw.edu
Twitter: @jevinwest
Web: jevinwest.org
Lab: datalab.ischool.uw.edu
Phone: 206-543-2646
Twitter: @jevinwest
Web: jevinwest.org
Lab: datalab.ischool.uw.edu
Phone: 206-543-2646
Curriculum Vitae
Academic Positions
2019 - present
Director, Center for an Informed Public, University of Washington
2019 - present
Associate Professor, Information School, University of Washington
2018 - present
Adjunct Faculty, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
2014 - present
Affiliate Faculty, Center for Statistics & Social Sciences, University of Washington
2014 - present
Data Science Fellow, eScience Institute, University of Washington
2014 - present
Co-Director, DataLab, University of Washington
2013 - present
Assistant Professor, Information School, University of Washington
Education
2011 - 2012
Postdoc, IceLab, Department of Physics, Umea University, Sweden
2005 - 2010
PhD, Department of Biology, University of Washington
1996 - 2004
B.S., M.S., Department of Biology, Utah State University
Service
UW Information School
- Faculty Hiring, Information Management, Tenure Track (2018 - present)
- Faculty Hiring, Co-Chair, Data Science Lecturer (2016 - 2017)
- MSIM Data Science Steward (2017 - present)
- Informatics INFO 370 Steward (2017 - present)
- Informatics Program Committee (2013 - 2014, 2015 - 2017)
- Faculty Hiring, Information Assurance & Cybersecurity Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (2015 - 2016)
- PhD Admissions Committee (2014 - 2015)
- Informatics Admission Committee (2013 - 2014)
University of Washington:
- Masters in Data Science (MSDS) Executive Committee (2015 - present)
- Masters in Data Science (MSDS) Admissions Committee (2017 - present)
- eScience Institute Steering Committee (2014 - present)
- Faculty Council on University Libraries (2014 - 2017)
- co-founded Data Science Seminar, Committee Member (2014 - present)
- eScience Education Working Group (2014 - present
- MSDS Hiring Committee, Director (2016 - 2016)
Professional:
- ADVANCE Resource and Coordination Network (ARC) Research Advisory Board (2017 - present)
- Art and Science Knowledge-Building in the XXI Century
- Open Academic Society Advisory Board (2016 - present)
Journal Review:
- JASIST Editorial Board, Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology (15) (2015 - 2016)
- Editorial Board, Journal of Informetrics (2017 - 2018) (5) (2017)
- Journal of the Assoc. for Information Science & Technology, reviewer (13) (2012 - 2016)
- Nature (3) (2017)
- Science (2) (2016)
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2) (2018)
- Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery (1) (2016)
- Science Advances (4) (2015 - 2016)
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B (1) (2018)
- Journal of Informetrics (3) (2014 - 2016)
- PLoS One (14) (2010 - 2016)
- IEEE Transactions on Big Data (2) (2016)
- eLife (1) (2015)
- Nature Human Behavior (1) (2017)
- Nature Ecology & Evolution (1) (2018)
- New England Journal of Medicine (1) (2016)
- PLoS Biology (2) (2016)
- co-review, Journal of Pain (1) (2016)
- Scientometrics (3) (2014 - 2016)
- Sociological Science (2016)
- Journal of Information Technology (1) (2015)
- PeerJ (2) (2015 - 2016)
- Economic Inquiry (2) (2013 - 2015)
- Journal of Data and Information Science, editorial board (2016)
- R Journal (1) (2016)
- Knowledge-Bases Systems (1) (2013)
- BioScience (1) (2015)
- PLoS Computational Biology (1) (2008)
- Journal of Librarianship & Scholarly Communication (1) (2012)
- Faculty 1000 (1) (2010)
- Harvard Review of Psychiatry (1) (2010)
- Plant, Cell & Environment (1) (2012)
- Information Management (1) (2009)
- Big Data and Society (1) (2017)
Conference Review:
- International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) (2017 - 2018)
- iConference Paper Co-Chair (2016 - 2017)
- Netsci Program Committee
- SIGCHI (2) (2016)
- International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, (2016)
- WWW (3) (2016 - 2017)
- ASIS&T, Meta Reviewer (4) (2014)
Proposal Review:
- National Science Founation, SciSIP (1) (2015)
- Sloan Foundation (2) (2014 - 2016)
Book Review:
- Cambridge University Press (1) (2015)
Funding
Leveraging STEM Learning in Rural Libraries to Address Misin- formation (in review)
National Science Foundation.
$1,115,638
Hewlett Foundation (2019 - 2024)
Center for an Informed Public.
$600,000
UW Center for an Informed Public (2019 - 2024)
Knight Foundation.
$5,000,000
Improving access to the scholarly literature (2018 - 2019)
JSTOR.
$110,000
Facilitating the curation and conversation of biotech history (2018)
Science History Museum.
$19,992
Tracking Data Sciencce Funding (2017 - 2018)
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
$5,000
Calling Bullshit in the Age of Fake News (2017 - 2018)
Knight Foundation.
$50,000
Echo Chambers in Science? The Impact of Academic Recommender Systems on the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge (2017 - 2019)
National Science Foundation (NSF). Grant: 1735194
$293,372
Scholarship Allocation (2017 - 2018)
UW Academic Services.
RA Support
Employing Data Science at the University of Washington (2016 - 2017)
UW Royalty Research Fund.
$39,404
CCE STEM: Collaborative: Learning from Ethics Self-Regulation in InfoSec Research (2016 - 2020)
National Science Foundation (NSF).
$336,058
Improving Scholarly Navigation (2016 - 2017)
JSTOR
Gift. $110,000
Improving market function in Open Access publishing through transparent comparison of journal price and quality (2016 - 2017)
Sloan Foundation.
$127,245
Diversification dynamics of scientific ideas using small clustering for community detection (2016 - 2016)
Metaknowledge Network, Templeton Foundation.
$35,000
Fundamental Mathematical Models for Human Interactions (2016 - 2017)
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).
$88,516
Semantic Scholar Recommendation (2015 - 2016)
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
RA Support
Measuring Scholarly Influence (2015 - 2017)
Chemical Heritage Foundation and Pew Charitable Trust.
$43,073
Inferring the hierarchical structure of citation networks to improve semantic search of the scholarly literature (2014 - 2016)
Metaknowledge Network, Templeton Foundation.
$109,172
Tony Hey DataLab Gift (2015)
Tony Hey.
Gift. $2,000
Data Science Education (2015)
Cisco.
Gift. $2,000
Open Data Literacy (2016 - 2019)
Institute of Museum and Librar Services (IMLS).
$690,858
Auto-classifying scholarly publications (2014 - 2015)
Microsoft.
Gift. $40,000
Eigenfactor Recommends (2013 - 2014)
Public Library of Science (PLoS).
$24,000
Evaluating Kauffman Foundation Research (2013 - 2014)
Kauffman Foundation.
$18,000
Data Science Project (2014)
Blackrock
$49,251
Measuring Interdisciplinarity (2014)
Metaknowledge Network, Templeton Foundation.
$58,000
DataLab Formation (2014)
Costco
Gift. $60,000
Mapping Student Trajectories (2014)
UW Graduate School
RA Support
Ranking and Mapping Patent Landscapes (2011)
UW Co-Motion
Gift. $36,000
Ranking and Mapping JSTOR (2011 - 2012)
JSTOR
Gift. $90,000
Tech Transfer
PatentVector.com, Co-Founder (2015 - present)
Bioz, Board of Advisors (2015 - 2019)
Collaborations
- Carl Bergstrom, Department of Biology, UW
- Martin Rosvall, Department of Physics, Umea University, Sweden
- Jennifer Jacquet, Environmental Studies, New York University, New York
- Metaknowledge Network, University of Chicago
- Bill Howe, iSchool, UW
- Cecilia Aragon, Human Centered Design & Engineering, UW
- Andrew Torrance, School of Law, University of Kansas
- Ted Bergstrom, Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Molly King, Department of Sociology, Stanford University
- Shelley Correll, Department of Sociology, Stanford University
- Michael Jensen, Business School, Harvard University