Category: Blog Post

• Looking Back on the Summer 2024 Humanities Data Science Summer Institute (HDSSI)

  

  Seed of an Idea Anna Preus, Assistant Professor of English, and Melanie Walsh, Assistant Professor in the Information School, first met in graduate school at Washington University in Saint Louis, when they were participants in the Humanities Digital Workshop.  The workshop offered the unique opportunity to explore the intersection of data science and humanities.  When…

• UW DSSG: 2024 Summer Program

  

  The eScience Institute recently spoke with six Student Fellows from the Data Science for Social Good program, now in its 10th year at the University of Washington’s Seattle campus. In-depth project descriptions are available on the UW DSSG projects page. The Seattle summer is in full effect. People are taking advantage of the extended daylight…

• 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…

• Announcing the 2024 Data Science Incubator Projects

  

  The eScience’s annual Data Science 2024 Incubator program kicked off last week, which enables new research discoveries by bringing together data scientists and domain scientists to work on focused, intensive, collaborative projects. Our team of data scientists provide expertise in state-of-the-art technology and methods in large-scale data manipulation and analytics, cloud and cluster computing, statistics…

• Announcing 2023 Seed Grants for AI Projects

  

  The eScience Institute has partnered with the UW Office of Research, the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, the Information School, and the NSF Institute for Foundations of Data Science (IFDS) to award seed grants to help initiate and support novel collaborations on four projects: Revealing the Hidden Lives of Cryptic Carnivores…

• UW Receives Honors in 2023 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

  

  The University of Washington and our CloudBank partners at the San Diego Supercomputing Center and UC Berkeley have been recognized in the 20th Anniversary edition of the HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards, presented at the 2023 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC23), in Denver, Colorado. The list of winners was revealed…

• Celebrating 15 Years of the eScience Institute

  

  This year we are celebrating the 15th anniversary since the eScience Institute was established at the University of Washington. In the past 15 years, data science tools and methods have become much more widely recognized and utilized in scientific research, as well as areas like medicine, humanities, business, art, and more. To celebrate, eScience will…

• SSEC Co-awarded NSF Grant for Open Source Workshop 

  

  The Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC) at the University of Washington has been co-awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to host a workshop that will explore an open-source development model for public datasets. Data science tools and methods, including AI and machine learning, have the ability to accelerate scientific discovery in a wide…

• SSEC Learnathon 2023

  

  By: Juliana Kilty, SSEC Student Assistant The Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC) held their first Learnathon from September 5th-7th this fall. Participants had the opportunity to explore topics in three general categories: tools, infrastructures, and processes. The Learnathon was conducted in tutorial style, led by SSEC team members with specific expertise. These informative presentations enabled…

• Data Science Profile: Michelle Ndugulile

  

  By: Louisa Gaylord Michelle Ndugulile (‘23) recently graduated from the University of Washington with a B.S. in Biology and a minor in Data Science. Prior to her undergraduate studies at UW, Michelle was interested in a variety of STEM subjects, such as math, anatomy, and physiology. But it was biology that captured her interest the…