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Winter School: Data Science Tools
The eScience Institute offers the annual Winter School to students and lecturers interested in developing basic skills and knowledge of the tools used in data science. Gaining literacy in topics such as Python, R, Jupyter, and reproducible environments can be beneficial beyond STEM, including areas like global or public health, public policy, social sciences, social…
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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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Aritra Ghosh
I am an LSST-DA Catalyst Prize Fellow and am currently hosting my fellowship at the University of Washington. I use the latest advances in machine learning combined with large astronomical surveys to study how galaxies and black holes form and evolve over time. Please take a look at my website to learn more about my research!
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Trisha Prasant
We are pleased to welcome Trisha Prasant as our Text Mining Student Specialist for the 2023-2024 academic year. Trisha is a graduate student in UW’s Master of Science in Data Science Program. Trisha has previously worked as a Teaching and Research Assistant at the iSchool and has experience with web scraping, data mining, and building…
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Joshua Swore
I am interested in the development of bioinspired devices. Specifically, I am interested in how we use the insect antenna in conjunction with machine learning to interpret the neural response and identify odors, known as volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Intriguingly, several VOCs discernible by insect antennae correlate with various health and environmental conditions. Some are emitted…
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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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Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad
Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad is a Research Fellow at University of Washington’s Harborview Medical Center. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on resilience in chronic critical illness, algorithmic nudging, simulation modeling for machine learning, and Responsible AI.
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Yiwei Xu
Yiwei Xu (Ph.D., 2023, Cornell University) is a postdoctoral scholar at the UW Center for an Informed Public (CIP). Her research focuses on examining and developing theory-driven communication strategies that address persistent and emergent public health challenges (e.g., racial disparities, vaccine hesitancy, misinformation, gun violence, etc.), with the goal of promoting evidence-based policies and health…