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What do the leaders say? Analysis of the United Nations General Debate Corpus
Project Lead: Jihyeon Bae, Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science Data Science Lead: Valentina Staneva Every year, more than 200 state representatives open the United Nations General Assembly meeting with statements during the General Debate (UNGD). The UNGD speech floor provides a rare opportunity for all states to equally have their voices heard by a wide range of audiences.…
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Investigating germline genetic influence on somatic immune traits in non-cancerous tissues
Project Lead: Tabitha Harrison, UW Epidemiology Faculty Advisor: Sara Lindström, Epidemiology Data Science Lead: Vaughn Iverson Cancer is a significant health burden in the US, causing substantial morbidity and mortality. This research project builds on past studies demonstrating that inherited genetic variants can influence how our immune system affects cancer risk and survival. While prior work has linked…
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Characterizing glacial lake outburst flood hazard at a regional scale using fused InSAR-speckle tracking surface displacement time series
Project Lead: George Brencher, UW Civil & Environmental Engineering Data Science Lead: Scott Henderson Glacial lakes are distributed in alpine terrain worldwide and are frequently dammed by unstable glacial moraines. These moraine dams can fail, causing lakes to rapidly drain and flood downstream valleys. Glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) are a significant hazard for high-elevation infrastructure and…
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Announcing 2023 Seed Grants for AI Projects
The eScience Institute has partnered with the UW Office of Research, the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, the Information School, and the NSF Institute for Foundations of Data Science (IFDS) to award seed grants to help initiate and support novel collaborations on four projects: Revealing the Hidden Lives of Cryptic Carnivores…
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UW Receives Honors in 2023 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards
The University of Washington and our CloudBank partners at the San Diego Supercomputing Center and UC Berkeley have been recognized in the 20th Anniversary edition of the HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards, presented at the 2023 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC23), in Denver, Colorado. The list of winners was revealed…
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Celebrating 15 Years of the eScience Institute
This year we are celebrating the 15th anniversary since the eScience Institute was established at the University of Washington. In the past 15 years, data science tools and methods have become much more widely recognized and utilized in scientific research, as well as areas like medicine, humanities, business, art, and more. To celebrate, eScience will…
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SSEC Co-awarded NSF Grant for Open Source Workshop
The Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC) at the University of Washington has been co-awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to host a workshop that will explore an open-source development model for public datasets. Data science tools and methods, including AI and machine learning, have the ability to accelerate scientific discovery in a wide…
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SSEC Learnathon 2023
By: Juliana Kilty, SSEC Student Assistant The Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC) held their first Learnathon from September 5th-7th this fall. Participants had the opportunity to explore topics in three general categories: tools, infrastructures, and processes. The Learnathon was conducted in tutorial style, led by SSEC team members with specific expertise. These informative presentations enabled…
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Data Science Profile: Michelle Ndugulile
By: Louisa Gaylord Michelle Ndugulile (‘23) recently graduated from the University of Washington with a B.S. in Biology and a minor in Data Science. Prior to her undergraduate studies at UW, Michelle was interested in a variety of STEM subjects, such as math, anatomy, and physiology. But it was biology that captured her interest the…
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Echopype: Ocean Acoustics
Partners Wu-Jung Lee, Senior Oceanographer, Applied Physics Laboratory at UW Emilio Mayorga, Researcher, Applied Physics Laboratory at UW eScience Institute/SSEC Engineers Valentina Staneva, Senior Data Scientist Don Setiawan, Senior Software Engineer Scientists commonly use active sonar systems to collect data about mid-trophic level animals, such as zooplankton and small fish that play an important role…