The Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC) was created in January 2022 within the University of Washington’s eScience Institute. SSEC connects researchers with software engineers who can build scalable, open software in order to facilitate accelerated scientific discovery across fields.
At SSEC, we believe that establishing a strong foundation of open source with a focus on empowering PIs for community adoption will evolve the research software engineering culture and accomplish efficiencies in software deployment for accomplishing scientific breakthroughs. SSEC projects are available publicly on Github to foster our culture of openness.
Who We Are
David Beck
eScience Director of Research
Cordero Core
Senior Software Engineer
Don Setiawan
Senior Research Software Engineer
Niki Burggraf
Senior Software Engineer
Vani Mandava
SSEC Head of Engineering
Anshul Tambay
Technical Program Manager
Anissa Tanweer
Senior Social Scientist
Robert Culver
Principle Software Consultant
SSEC Graduate Research Scholars
Apoorva Sheera
Ishika Khandelwal
Parvati Jayakumar
Ayush Nag
Ying-Hsiang Huang
Anuj Jain
SSEC in the News
- “Ex-Google chief’s venture aims to save neglected science software” (Nature, July 2022)
- “Former Google CEO invests in computing help for university scientists” (Science, Jan. 2022)
- “University of Washington joins $40M campaign to enlist more software engineers for research” (GeekWire, Jan. 2022)
- “Schmidt Futures and Leading Research Universities Launch Software Engineering Centers to Accelerate Scientific Discovery” (Schmidt Futures, Jan. 2022)