The Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC) was created in January 2022 within the University of Washington’s eScience Institute. SSEC connects researchers with software engineers who can build scalable, open software in order to facilitate accelerated scientific discovery across fields.
Who We Are
Vani Mandava
SSEC Head of Engineering
Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez
Senior Principal Research Software Engineer
Cordero Core
Senior Software Engineer
Nick Rich
Undergraduate Engineering Assistant
David Beck
eScience Director of Research
Don Setiawan
Senior Research Software Engineer
Anissa Tanweer
Senior Social Scientist
Maria Rodriguez
Interim Hiring Specialist
SSEC in the News
- “Ex-Google chief’s venture aims to save neglected science software” (Nature, July 2022)
- “Former Google CEO invests in computing help for university scientists” (Science, Jan. 2022)
- “University of Washington joins $40M campaign to enlist more software engineers for research” (GeekWire, Jan. 2022)
- “Schmidt Futures and Leading Research Universities Launch Software Engineering Centers to Accelerate Scientific Discovery” (Schmidt Futures, Jan. 2022)