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The UW Scientific Software Engineering Center is now accepting pilot projects for AI workflows
The Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC) at UW provides researchers and scholars with access to professional software engineers using state of the art software and hardware to develop open-source, secure, robust, and sustainable software. SSEC software engineers solve challenging problems across a breadth of disciplinary domains by employing modern software development best-practices to build open source software at scale, leveraging cutting-edge technologies including agentic-AI, generative-AI, machine learning, cloud computing, scalable deployment optimization, and peta-scale data management. In collaboration with agencies and…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Software for Community-Driven Enumeration: Needs Assessment of People Experiencing Homelessness
Partners: Zach 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Universe of IGOs: Measuring Heterogeneity and Distributions of Member States
Project Lead: Jihyeon Bae, UW Political Science Data Science Lead: Curtis Atkisson Does having a diverse mix of member states make an inter-governmental organization (IGO) more or less cooperative? Scholars have long debated whether regime heterogeneity, especially variation in democracy levels, helps or hinders intergovernmental organizations (IGOs). Yet despite rich theoretical discussions, empirical findings remain…
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Creating a code base for on- and offline analysis of ultrafast X-rayspectroscopy data recorded at the chemRIXS instrument
Project Lead: Amke Nimmrich, UW Chemistry Data Science Lead: Bryna Hazelton X-ray Free Electron Lasers help us more deeply understand the details of a chemical reaction. They are large scale facilities providing ultrashort pulses of X-ray light at high repetition rates. These light pulses can be used to observe reaction dynamics in real time (femto-…