Category: Blog Post

• Senator Patty Murray visits eScience after securing $10M in federal funding for AI infrastructure

  

  We had the honor of hosting Senator Patty Murray at the eScience Institute after she secured $10 million in federal funds for AI infrastructure at UW. Senator Murray attended four research presentations powered by UW computing resources with practical applications ranging from environmental management to rural hospitals. Check out Geekwire’s coverage of the Senator’s visit…

• Agentic AI for Research Workflows: SSEC hosts AI Panel 

  

  This fall, the UW Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC) hosted a community-driven meetup during Seattle AI Week focused on how AI is reshaping research workflows in academia, industry, and startups. The meetup included a panel moderated by SSEC Head of Engineering Vani Mandava and featuring Bodhisattwa Majumder from AI2, Shamsi Iqbal from Microsoft, Luke Kim from Spice AI and Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez from SSEC. Around sixty audience members listened as panelists discussed…

• The 2025 Humanities Data Science Summer Institute: Celebrating Three Years of Interdisciplinary Collaboration

  

  This summer the UW Data Science Minor, in collaboration with eScience, offered the third iteration of the Humanities Data Science Summer Institute (HDSSI). Undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty from several university departments gathered to work together on humanities data science research projects. During this collaborative process, students attended training sessions with guidance from HDSSI co-founders…

• Software for Phylogenetic Trees: SSEC co-organizes Workshop in London

  

  This September, SSEC’s Don Setiawan traveled to London to co-organize a workshop with collaborators at the University of Copenhagen and Imperial College London. The workshop offered an overview of SSEC’s work on Phylo2Vec, a software package designed to accelerate phylogenetic research.  Phylogenetic trees are diagrams that illustrate species’ shared evolutionary history. Represented as bifurcating binary…

• SSEC collaborates on Workshop at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center

  

  Last week, Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez and Anshul Tambay from the Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC) joined researchers at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) for part of a week-long workshop focused on predicting the impacts of climate change on biodiversity. The event was part of the Biodiversity Horizons project, which aims to develop scalable, open-source…

• ICESat-2 Hackweek 2025: Open Software for Earth Satellites

  

  By Kate Rich In 2018, NASA launched the Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite 2 (ICESat-2) into space for scientific research. The satellite enables scientists to measure the elevation of tree canopies, oceans, sea ice, and ice sheets across the globe with its photon-counting laser altimeter. With these data, researchers can further explore how the…

• Staff Spotlight: Niki Burggraf

  

  By Kate Rich The eScience Staff Spotlight is a series featuring individual members of our team and their career journey. This week’s featured staff member is SSEC Senior Research Software Engineer Niki Burggraf.  From programming languages to human languages, Niki has always had a knack for translating knowledge across different systems. Growing up in the…

• Staff Spotlight: Anthony Arendt

  

  By Kate Rich The eScience Staff Spotlight is a series featuring individual members of our team and their career journey. This week’s featured staff member is Anthony Arendt, our Director of Community Engagement Programs and Senior Data Science Fellow.  Anthony knows the importance of hard earned data all too well. As a Research Professor at…

• Staff Spotlight: Anissa Tanweer

  

  By Kate Rich The eScience Staff Spotlight is a series featuring individual members of our team and their career journey. This week’s featured staff member is Senior Social Scientist Anissa Tanweer. From field site to workplace, eScience has come to serve many different roles for Anissa over the years. Being a qualitative interpretivist researcher at…

• Staff Spotlight: Cordero Core

  

  By Kate Rich The eScience Staff Spotlight is a series featuring individual members of our team and their career journey. This week’s featured staff member is Cordero Core, a Senior Research Software Engineer at our Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC). In and outside of the office, Cordero brings creative insights to technical problems. At SSEC,…