Mia Champion

Mia Champion

Assistant Teaching Professor

Location: UW1-146
Email: miachamp@uw.edu

Background

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. Dr. 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, Dr. 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.

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

Education

University of California – Davis

  • Ph.D. – genomics

University of Michigan

  • B.S. with high honors