Mia Champion, Ph.D. (she/her/hers)

Assistant Teaching Professor

UW Global Innovation Exchange Mentor

Mia Champion, Ph.D. (she/her/hers)

Assistant Teaching Professor

UW Global Innovation Exchange Mentor

Dr. Mia Champion holds a Ph.D. in genomics from the University of California-Davis and completed post-doctoral bioinformatics research while working at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Boston. Champion was an assistant research professor at the Mayo Clinic before leaving academia to launch a start-up company (CloudOmics). During her recent tenure at Amazon Web Services, Champion served in a variety of leadership roles dedicated to product and program management, technical business development, as well as serving as a lead data scientist for the AWS Machine Learning Solutions Lab Consultant Team. She served as a lead product manager overseeing several Amazon Health AI products, including Amazon HealthLake, Amazon Genomics CLI, and AWS HealthOmics.

Education

  • University of California – Davis
    • Ph.D. – genomics
  • University of Michigan
    • B.S. with high honors

Courses

  • CSS 142 Computer Programming I
  • CSS 350 Management Principles for Computing Professionals
  • CSS 581 Introduction to Machine Learning
  • CSS 586 Deep Learning CSS532 Internet of Things
  • CSS 382A Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
  • CSS 566A Software Management

Teaching Interests

  • Software Product Management
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Explainable and Responsible AI
  • IoT
  • Bioinformatics

Research and Scholarship Interests

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Explainable and Responsible AI
  • HealthAI
  • AI and Education

Creative Interests

Building robots, novel & poetry writing, painting, skiing, cooking

  • Murugadass, C., Champion, M. “Driver Drowsiness Detection using Machine Learning and AWS IoT.” Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Automation, Computing and Renewable Systems (ICACRS-2025) DVD Part number: CFP25CB5-DVD; ISBN: 979-8-3315-4885-8
  • View more publications on Google Scholar.

Mentor for student capstone committees.

Mentor for University of Washington Global Innovation Exchange Program.

Allyship & Advocacy, Inclusive Teaching, Accessible Curriculum Design for ‘Women In STEM’ Course

  • Graduate Admissions Committee
  • Student Petitions Committee
  • Founder and Principal Consultant, Unalomia
  • Venture Capital Startups Due Diligence Consultant