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Gary Howarth (Fed)
Physical Scientist
Gary Howarth develops and leads ambitious research projects to address urgent challenges in communication technology. He leads the privacy-enhancing technology research portfolio for the Privacy Engineering Program and is a principal investigator for the mission-critical communications portfolio in the Public Safety Communications Research Division.
He earned his PhD in the Chemistry Department at Columbia University. He has previously taught high school science and co-founded the NET Charter High School in New Orleans.
Current projects:
- The NIST Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) Testbed, which provides model architectures, metrics, perspective, and guidance on PETs deployments
- The Collaborative Research Cycle, a community research program to advance understanding of de-identification technologies
- SDNist: Benchmark data and evaluation metrics for synthetic data generators
- Mission-Critical Quality of Experience, metrics and benchmarks for first responder communications technologies
Awards
- Commendation, Communication Technology Laboratory, NIST: for outstanding contributions to enhancing efficiency in research, specifically in Quality of Experience (2025)
- Commendation, Communication Technology Laboratory, NIST: for the dissemination of datasets and an evaluation platform of deidentification technologies (2023)
- Bronze Medal, National Institute of Standards and Technology: for the successful creation and execution of the Mobile Fingerprinting Innovation Challenge (2023)
- George A. Uriano Award, National Institute of Standards and Technology: for outstanding achievements in building or strengthening NIST extramural programs (2021)
- Presidential Management Fellowship, Office of Personnel Management: two-year appointment at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (8/2019-8/2021)
- Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, National Institutes of Health: award in support of biophysics dissertation research (8/2016-8/2018)