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Leilani Battle is an American Computer Science Assistant Professor at University of Washington's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. Leilani Battle is also a co-director in UW's interactive Data Lab program.

Early Life and Education
Battle grew up with love for video games. Because of this she originally chose Computer Science to become a Game Designer or a Developer. Battle then went to University of Washington and earned her B.S. in Computer Engineering at 2011. However, when she started doing research internships, instead of pursuing a career in video games, the experience changed her interests to doing research as she enjoyed it.

She then went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where she earned her Computer Science M.S. in 2013 and Ph.D. in 2017. She also finished a postdoc in University of Washington's Interactive Data lab in 2017. During her time with MIT and her Ph.D. work, she also help create a tool that helps with creating a more time efficient researching tool for large databases called ForeCache.

Career
Leilani Battle was an assistant professor at University of Maryland, College Park where she led a team, the Battle Data Lab. She is now an assistant professor in University of Washington's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering where she teaches and mentors students, and conducts research into databases, where she focuses with Human–computer interaction to integrate databases and HCI interfaces to create visualizations for larger databases.

She is also part of professional Computer Science Organizations such as Association for Computing Machinery, and IEEE Visualization where she either held Program Co-Chairs or was a Co-Organizer for some workshops.

Awards
She received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in 2012, and because of her achievements she also received an Adobe research award, a VMware Early Career grant, an NSF CISE CRII Award for 2019-2021, an NSF CAREER Award for 2022-2027, Oak Ridge Associated Universities Ralph E. Powe Junior Enhancement Award for 2019-2020, and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellowship award for 2023. She was also featured in MIT's Innovators Under 35, and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers's Computer Society Interview Series.