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Target Detection for Advanced Environmental Monitoring of Marine Renewable Energy
Project Lead: Emma Cotter, Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington Project Collaborators: Brian Polagye, Paul Murphy eScience Liaison: Bernease Herman It is necessary to reduce the uncertainty surrounding the environmental effects of marine renewable energy for the industry to advance. The Adaptable Monitoring Package (AMP) is an instrumentation platform for that combines sonar, cameras, and hydrophones in a centrally…
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Methods for Characterizing Human Centromeres
Project Lead: Siva Kasinathan, UW School of Medicine eScience Liaisons: Andrew Fiore-Gartland, Bryna Hazelton Despite an explosion in DNA sequencing technology, many genome projects, including the Human Genome Project, remain fundamentally unfinished. Gaps in genome assemblies occur in regions composed of repeated sequences. Human centromeres, which are loci that ensure proper partitioning of genetic material at each cell…
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Developing a Workflow for Managing Large Hydrologic Spatial Datasets to Assist Water Resources Management and Research
Project Lead: Nicoleta Cristea, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington Project Collaborators: Jessica Lundquist, Ryan Currier, Karl Lapo eScience Liaisons: Anthony Arendt, Rob Fatland Large, spatially distributed datasets have increasingly become more abundant, but there is currently no workflow that efficiently manages, analyzes and visualizes these datasets, ultimately dampening their usability and assistance in water resource management/research. Within the…
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A New Innovation Model for the 21st Century
eScience Institute Founding Director Ed Lazowska, Senior Data Science Fellow Tom Daniel, and other UW leaders recently wrote an article describing how the “University of Washington…can serve as a model for research institutions across the country“. They highlight four UW campus institutes that, with support from the Washington Research Foundation, are pursuing cutting-edge research in…
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Bingni Brunton awarded Sloan Fellowship for early-career research
Excerpt from James Urton, UW Today article Four faculty members at the University of Washington been awarded early-career fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The new Sloan Fellows, announced Feb. 23, include Bingni Brunton, assistant professor of biology; Christopher Laumann, assistant professor of physics; Matthew McQuinn, assistant professor of astronomy; and Emina Torlak, assistant…
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Data Science Poster Session Draws Crowds
The eScience Institute hosted a very successful and well-attended Data Science Poster and Networking Session in Mary Gates Hall Commons on February 10th, 2016. As the second (soon to be annual) event of its kind, this session drew participants from over 25 different departments and organizations from across the UW campus and beyond. Anyone engaged…
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UW Approves Master of Science in Data Science
We’re extremely pleased to announce that UW’s Board of Regents has granted approval for a new Master of Science in Data Science program. Scheduled to begin in fall of 2016, and offering full- and part-time options geared towards working professionals, the 45-credit program will be held on UW’s main campus in Seattle with admissions managed…
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The eScience Institute is Hiring a Grants Manager
The eScience Institute is pleased to announce that we have an outstanding opportunity for a Grants Manager that will independently manage all fiscal components of the eScience Institute. About you: You enjoy a fast-paced and dynamic environment. You are capable of handling multiple projects with competing deadlines efficiently and effectively and you find it rewarding…
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UW Announces Two New Positions in Support of Data-Intensive Discovery Initiative
Shortly after being named University of Washington Provost, Anne Marie Cauce (now the UW’s president) asked eScience Founding Director Ed Lazowska and Steering Committee member Werner Stuetzle to advise on additional steps to undertake to ensure that the University of Washington was a leader in data-intensive discovery. Under the Provost’s Initiative in Data-Intensive Discovery, the Provost will consider…
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Visualization Research Papers Catches Stephen Few’s Eye
A blog posting on Perceptual Edge by data visualization expert Stephen Few features two papers that caught his eye at this year’s IEEE VisWeek Conference. The first, “Voyager: Exploratory Analysis via Faceted Browsing of Visualization Recommendations” (PDF), is co-authored by eScience Associate Director Bill Howe. In reviewing it, Few writes: “Voyager is a visual [exploratory…