Category: News

• Team receives Earth science funding

  

  May 7, 2019 A team of University of Washington (UW) researchers led by eScience research scientist Nicoleta Cristea has received Lab Incubator Project funding from Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP). The project is titled “Developing workflows for assessing high-resolution CubeSat imagery to infer detailed snow-covered areas for studying changes in ecosystems and water supply.” The funding will help…

• Deep Learning Institute held at eScience

  

  February 28, 2019 On Feb. 22 the UW Research Computing team hosted a Deep Learning Institute (DLI) on using machine learning for computer vision at the eScience Institute. The DLI was attended by a diverse set of participants ranging from students at the undergraduate level through full professors from departments within engineering, business, and medicine.…

• Team receives NIH grant for Alzheimer’s disease research

  

  February 27, 2019 Senior data science fellow Su-In Lee and collaborator Matt Kaeberlein have received a grant of just over $3 million from the National Institutes of Health for their project “Interpretable machine learning to identify Alzheimer’s disease therapeutic targets.” In the United States alone, someone receives an Alzheimer’s diagnosis every 66 seconds, and the disease has become…

• Press release: Results from the UW Evictions Project

  

  February 21, 2019 A team of University of Washington researchers including eScience postdoctoral fellow Timothy A. Thomas, Ott Toomet, Ian Kennedy, and Alex Ramiller, has released a report titled “The state of evictions: results from the University of Washington Evictions Project” as a living website that will be frequently updated with their work: https://evictions.study. Washington…

• eScience executive leadership changes

  

  February 7, 2019 Micaela Parker, eScience co-executive director with Sarah Stone, will be transitioning to a new position beginning the week of Feb. 11, 2019. Over the past year, she has been holding two joint appointments: as the eScience co-executive director and as the program coordinator for the Moore-Sloan Data Science Environments (MSDSE) where she has…

• New Year’s letter from the eScience director

  

  January 8, 2019 Dear eScience community, It is with great enthusiasm that we welcome the new year at the eScience Institute! 2019 is particularly special because we are turning the page on the first ten years of the Institute and are looking forward to the next ten. The Institute was founded in 2008 with the…

• 2018 eScience milestones

  

  By Robin Brooks, Communications Associate January 2, 2019 As 2018 draws to a close, we wanted to offer a glimpse into the outstanding achievements those who work at, and affiliate with, the eScience Institute have accomplished this year. It was a special year for us, as we celebrated our 10 year anniversary. Though a lot…

• Data Then and Now: Call for invited speakers

  

  We are soliciting applications for guest speakers for a new invited lecture series at the University of Washington that resides at the intersection of data science and Science and Technology Studies (STS). We know there is great and relevant scholarship from STS out there that might not have crossed our desks yet, so we are…

• Blog: Moonlighting in oceanography: our work with the Regional Cabled Array

  

  By Rob Fatland, UW Director of Cloud and Data Solutions Have you ever wondered why volcanic eruptions on the ocean floor don’t boil the ocean? Me, too. Of course, the ocean ought to win being much larger than the volcano. But stay! Surely a volcano would boil at least a little bit of the ocean. And…

• eScience team attends Moore/Sloan Summit

  

  By Robin Brooks Over 100 people attended the Moore/Sloan Data Science Environments (MSDSE) Annual Summit, which took place in Park City, Utah, Oct. 10 – 13. This short conference allows university faculty and staff from the UW, New York University Center for Data Science, and Berkeley Institute for Data Science who are involved with the MSDSE…