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Jason Tabert

Informatics, 2004

Jason is the Website Optimization Manager at Tableau Software. Tableau helps people see and understand their data. Jason owns the web analytics and testing platform and focuses on driving increased customer engagement and lead generation. His prior experience ranges from working with local non-profits to consulting for Fortune 500 companies.

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Jenny Abdo

Informatics, 2002

Jenny and her husband Jeff celebrated the birth of their daughter, Sydney Renee Abdo, in October 2013. Jenny also sits on the Informatics Advisory Board.

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Joe Goldberg

Informatics, 2002

Joe started a job at a Seattle-based startup called Convoy, which is a freight logistics company. He's an engineering manager on a team that's building back-end services to help import shipping data quickly and accurately.

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Takahiro Hisada

Informatics, 2002

Takahiro has been working for Google for the past 2.5 years, and relocated to the company's Bay Area headquarters in 2015.

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iSchool's Chirag Shah honored as a leading figure in information retrieval

Thursday, July 24, 2025

Information School Professor Chirag Shah was among the 2025 cohort elected to the SIGIR Academy, a prestigious honor that recognizes leaders who have significantly shaped the field of information retrieval. SIGIR is...

Q&A: Ryan Calo on why 'we need to take a page from the Amish'

Monday, July 21, 2025

Ryan Calo holds a joint appointment as a professor in the Information School and as the Lane Powell and D. Wayne Gittinger Professor at the UW School of Law. Calo is a prominent voice in tech policy both on campus and globally, with his...