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SSEC: Offshore Geodesy Workshop
On Friday, May 3rd, 2024, the Offshore Geodesy project team attended a workshop led by SSEC Senior Software Engineer Don Setiawan. The workshop included Professor David Schmidt and Post Doctoral Researcher John DeSanto, as well as Jesse Hutchinson from Ocean Networks Canada and SSEC Research Scholar Madhav Kashyap. The group reviewed progress made on the…
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SSEC Pilot Projects 2024
The UW Scientific Software Engineering Center is now accepting pilot projects for 2024 The Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC) at UW provides researchers with access to full-time professional engineers and state of the art technology to develop open source, secure, and robust software. SSEC engineers solve difficult software problems across a breadth of disciplinary domains by…
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Caustics: Simulating Gravitational Lensing
Partners Yashar Hezaveh, Director, Ciela Institute Laurence Perreault-Levasseur, Assistant Professor, Ciela Institute Connor Stone, Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, Ciela Institute SSEC Engineers Don Setiawan, Senior Research Software Engineer Cordero Core, Senior Research Software Engineer Gravitational lensing occurs when a large mass (e.g. a galaxy) lies between an observer (Earth) and a light source (another galaxy). These…
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AutoDoc: Automated Documentation of Empirical Research
Partners Sebastian Musslick, Director, Autonomous Empirical Research Group Younes Strittmatter, Research Assistant, Autonomous Empirical Research Group SSEC Engineers Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, Senior Principal Software Engineer AutoRA is a collection of Python packages that together form a framework for closed loop empirical research. The packages allow users to set variables, weights, and actions to perform…
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ProSpecPy: Processing FTIR Spectroscopy Data
Partners Elizabeth Phillips, Postdoctoral Scientist, Vincent Group @ Oxford University SSEC Engineers Anshul Tambay, Technical Program Manager Hydrogenases are a group of enzymes that catalyze the reversible reduction of protons to hydrogen. They are extremely efficient, with turnover frequencies that rival the most efficient metal catalysts (Pt or Pd), using earth abundant metals (Ni or…
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Niki Burggraf
Niki Burggraf is a Senior Software Engineer for the UW Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC) at eScience Institute. With over 6 years of experience building and maintaining cloud web services, Niki is excited to bring her industry experience to the scientific software engineering sphere. Prior to working at SSEC, Niki worked at Amazon on its…
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Harsha Gurnani
Harsha is a Schmidt Science and eScience Data Science fellow with a broad interest in systems and computational neuroscience. She combines quantitative analysis of large-scale neurophysiology datasets and network modelling to study how coordinated neural population dynamics emerge and support behavior. She is currently using data-driven dynamical systems modelling and control theoretic approaches to study…
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