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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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: Zack Almquist and June Yang SSEC Engineers: Anant Mittal, Anshul Tambay 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…
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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…