Edward Delano Lazowska (born August 3, 1950) is an American computer scientist.

He is a Professor, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair emeritus, in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington.

Lazowska’s research and teaching have concerned the design, implementation, and analysis of high-performance computing and communication systems, and, more recently, the techniques and technologies of data-intensive science.

From 2008 to 2017 he served as the Founding Director of the University of Washington eScience Institute, one of three partners (along with Berkeley and New York University) in the Data Science Environments effort[5] sponsored by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

at Brown University in 1972, advised by Andries van Dam and David J. Lewis, and his M.Sc.