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UW DSSG: 2024 Summer Program
The eScience Institute recently spoke with six Student Fellows from the Data Science for Social Good program, now in its 10th year at the University of Washington’s Seattle campus. In-depth project descriptions are available on the UW DSSG projects page. The Seattle summer is in full effect. People are taking advantage of the extended daylight…
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SSEC: Offshore Geodesy Workshop
On Friday, May 3rd, 2024, the Offshore Geodesy project team attended a workshop led by SSEC Senior Software Engineer Don Setiawan. The workshop included Professor David Schmidt and Post Doctoral Researcher John DeSanto, as well as Jesse Hutchinson from Ocean Networks Canada and SSEC Research Scholar Madhav Kashyap. The group reviewed progress made on the…
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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…
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IDD Data Portal: Centralized Insights
Partners: Sunny Juul, Kari Stephens, Josh Lovseth, and Grace Sun SSEC Engineers: Robert Culver, Cordero Core and Anshul Tambay Research Goals and Domain One in six children have an intellectual and/or developmental disability (IDD). Despite this high prevalence, there are critical gaps in knowledge on how and when children present with potential IDD. Furthermore, there…
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CECI Database: Modernizing for Scale
Partners: Juliet Taylor, Dayton Allemann, and Jason Welch SSEC Engineers: Cordero Core, Don Setiawan, and Anant Mittal Research Goals and Domain Developed as a collaboration between early learning professionals and the University of Washington Cultivate Learning, the Coach and Educator Community Interface (CECI) is an online platform that powers professional development for early childhood educators.…
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Genetic Forensics: Streamlining Poaching Investigations
Partners: Sam Wasser, Mary Kuhner, and Ryan Horwitz SSEC Engineer: Niki Burggraf and Ishika Khandelwal Research Goals and Domain The University of Washington’s Center for Environmental Forensic Science has revolutionized the field of wildlife crime investigation with advancements in genetic forensics. Researchers developed tools to compare seized elephant tusks to DNA from seized ivory reference…
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NAIRR: Pilot Exploration
Partner: Rob Fatland SSEC Engineer: Niki Burggraf Research Goals and Domain The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) is a National Science Foundation funded effort aiming to connect U.S. researchers to the computational, data, software, model and training resources they need to participate in AI research. As a member of the CloudBank team, the UW…
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Caustics: Simulating Gravitational Lensing
Partners: Yashar Hezaveh, Laurence Perreault-Levasseur, and Connor Stone SSEC Engineers: Cordero Core and Don Setiawan Research Goals and Domain Gravitational lensing occurs when a large mass (e.g. a galaxy) lies between an observer (Earth) and a light source (another galaxy). These chance alignments magnify and multiply the image and background source in a variety of…
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AutoDoc: Automated Documentation of Empirical Research
Partners: Sebastian Musslick and Younes Strittmatter SSEC Engineers: Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, Anuj Sinha, and Rashmika Reddy Research Goals and Domain Reproducibility is a foundational pillar of the scientific process. However, numerous empirical studies in behavioral research are difficult to replicate due to inadequate and opaque documentation of their research steps. AutoRA is a collection…
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ProSpecPy: Processing FTIR Spectroscopy Data
Partner: Elizabeth Phillips SSEC Engineer: Anshul Tambay, Anuradha Ramachandran, and Eric Xue Research Goals and Domain Hydrogenases are a group of enzymes that catalyze the reversible reduction of protons to hydrogen. They are extremely efficient, with turnover frequencies that rival the most efficient metal catalysts (Pt or Pd), using earth abundant metals (Ni or Fe)…