Category: SSEC Project

• HPyX: Bringing High-Performance Parallelism to Python 

  

  Partners: Hartmut Kaiser, Rod Tohid, Andrew Lumsdaine  SSEC Engineers: Don Setiawan, Ayush Nag  Research Goals and Domain  HPyX bridges the gap between Python and high-performance computing by providing Python bindings for the HPX C++ Parallelism Library. HPX implements modern C++ concurrency and parallelism features, allowing for scalable execution across multi-core and distributed systems. HPyX leverages Python 3.13’s free-threading capabilities and Nanobind to expose these…

• Protein Design Pipeline: Standardizing Reproducibility   

  

  Partners:  Andrew Hunt, Magnus Bauer, Jasper Butcher, Rohith Krishna, Saman Salike SSEC Research Engineer: Anant Mittal Research Goals and Domain The University of Washington Institute for Protein Design (IPD), led by Nobel Prize-winning Director David Baker, is a cutting-edge research center that creates entirely new proteins to address challenges in medicine, technology, and sustainability through the application of novel artificial intelligence tools and experimental science. Applications of…

• OVRO-LWA Platform: Driving Accessibility 

  

  Partners: Casey Law, Nikita Kosogorov, Tanazza Khanam, Tom Morrell  SSEC Engineers: Don Setiawan, Cordero Core, Ishika Johari  Research Goals and Domain The Owens Valley Radio Observatory, Long Wavelength Array (OVRO-LWA) is a low-frequency (15–85 MHz) all-sky radio telescope designed to detect and study phenomena such as auroral emissions from exoplanets, gravitational wave counterparts, cosmic-ray air showers, and the 21-cm signal from the…

• Antenna: AI-Powered Entomology

  

  Partners: David Rolnick, Michael Bunsen, Francis Pelletier, Anna Viklund, Mohamed Elabbas SSEC Engineers: Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, Bhagyashree Wagh Research Goals and Domain The Antenna project studies entomological biodiversity by deploying AI-powered camera trap data, machine learning algorithms, and scalable data platforms to drive image collection, identification, and monitoring across diverse ecosystems. Entomological biodiversity is crucial for healthy ecosystems due to their…

• CA Biositing Tool: Leveraging High-Resolution Data

  

  Partners: Corinne Scown, Tyler Huntington, Peter Smith, Andrea Bailey, Meili Gong  SSEC Engineers: Niki Burggraf, Don Setiawan, Vraj Rajpura Research Goals and Domain The BioCircular Valley project aims to develop sustainable products from agricultural waste by creating a publicly accessible interactive map that shows feedstock types and availability as well as estimating downstream fuel performance and environmental impact to facilitate the circular bioeconomy…

• Software for Community-Driven Enumeration: Needs Assessment of People Experiencing Homelessness 

  

  Partners: Zack Almquist and June Yang SSEC Engineer: Anant Mittal Graduate Student Leads: Ihsan Kahveci, Emily Porter Undergraduate and Graduate Student Engineers: Arushi Agarwal, Hana Amos, Zack Crouse, Devanshi Desai, Elizabeth Deng, Kristen L. Gustafson, Finley Hutchison, Kaden Kapadia, Hannah Lam, Aryan Palave, KelliAnn Ramirez, Natalie Robbins, Hrudhai Umashankar, Jasmine Vuong, Ella Weinberg Research Goals…

• BioEthics: Lay Summaries for Research Participants

  

  Partner: Kate MacDuffie SSEC Engineers: Niki Burggraff, Apoorva Sheera, and Ying-Hsiang Huang Research Goals and Domain The Bioethics Team from the University of Washington Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) consults researchers and personnel on how to ethically engage with research participants and human subjects who inquire about their research studies. Researchers who conduct human…

• Biodiversity Horizons: Predicting Climate Risks

  

  Partners: Christopher Trisos, Cory Merow, Andreas Schwarz Meyer, and Ben Carlson SSEC Engineers: Cordero Core, Niki Burggraff, Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, Ishika Khandelwal, and Anshul Tambay Research Goals and Domain As global temperatures rise, preserving biodiversity is essential for the planet’s health and human well-being. However, current biodiversity risk projections are often limited to a…

• Phylo2Vec: Accelerating Phylogenetic Research 

  

  Partners: Samir Bhatt, Neil Alexandre Scheidwasser, and Frederik Mølkjær Andersen SSEC Engineers: Don Setiawan, Madeline Gordon, and Ayush Nag Research Goals and Domain A phylogenetic tree is a diagram that illustrates the shared evolutionary history of a group of species. This diagram is represented as a bifurcating binary tree; a structure in which each node,…

• Post Disaster Comms: Resilient Communities

  

  Partners: Cynthia Chen, Kurtis Heimerl, Dan Abramson, Esther Jang, and Ridley LeDoux SSEC Engineers: Niki Burggraf, Don Setiawan, Anuj Sinha, Parvati Jayakumar, and Ying-Hsiang Huang Research Goals and Domain Natural disasters isolate communities, leaving them to fend for themselves. UW THINKlab is interested in the untapped physical and social capacity within communities to drive their…