Jessica Hullman is an American

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and the Ginni Rometty professor of

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Northwestern University Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...

. Hullman was formerly faculty at the

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(2015-2018). She is known for her research in

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and

Uncertainty quantification Uncertainty quantification (UQ) is the science of quantitative characterization and estimation of uncertainties in both computational and real world applications. It tries to determine how likely certain outcomes are if some aspects of the system ...

Education

Hullman graduated ''

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'' from

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with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Comparative Studies. She obtained a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Writings and Poetics from

Naropa University Naropa University is a private university in Boulder, Colorado, United States. Founded in 1974 by Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa, it is named after the 11th-century Indian Buddhist sage Naropa, an abbot of Nalanda. The university ...

. Hullman received her Master of Science in Information and Ph.D in Information Science from the University of Michigan - School of Information, where she was advised by Eytan Adar. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the

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Computer Science Department with

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Work

Hullman has made contributions to topics including uncertainty visualization, Bayesian cognition, human-AI interaction, decision-making under uncertainty, and evaluation of software and interfaces. Her work has contributed new visualization types to help readers develop an intuitive sense of uncertainty, such as hypothetical outcome plots. Hullman has given many invited lectures and keynote presentations, including "Strategic Communication of Uncertainty" to the President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology. Hullman is co-director of the Midwest Uncertainty (MU) Collective at

. Hullman has written articles for the popular press related to communicating uncertainty, including for

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(with

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, The Hill and

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(with Allison Schrager). She is a contributor to

's blog, Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science.

Awards

Hullman was selected as a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship in 2019. She is the recipient of numerous best paper awards.

References

External links

* *http://users.eecs.northwestern.edu/~jhullman/pubs.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Hullman, Jessica American women computer scientists American computer scientists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) University of Michigan alumni 21st-century American women