Specialization: Software Engineering

• Curtis Atkisson

  

  Curtis Atkisson joined the eScience Institute in Feb 2024. He received his PhD in Evolutionary Anthropology from UC Davis with a designated emphasis in Computational Social Science. His dissertation was on how changes in people’s complex social networks impact their cooperative behavior. This work involved ethnography, participant observation, and surveys done amongst the Makushi (and…

• Niki Burggraf

  

  Niki Burggraf is a Senior Software Engineer for the UW Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC) at eScience Institute. With over 6 years of experience building and maintaining cloud web services, Niki is excited to bring her industry experience to the scientific software engineering sphere. Prior to working at SSEC, Niki worked at Amazon on its…

• Cordero Core

  

  Cordero Core is an accomplished Sr. Software Engineer with over 13 years of experience in the software development industry. Throughout his career, Cordero has established himself as an expert in software and machine learning applications. He has successfully delivered innovative software solutions for diverse industries, including healthcare, e-commerce, aerospace, and security. Cordero’s profound knowledge in…

• Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez

  

  Carlos is a Principal Software Engineer with the UW Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC). As part of SSEC, he leads Software Engineering and Machine Learning (ML) projects in collaboration with researchers to develop robust and scalable scientific software. Carlos has over 25 years of experience building software. Before joining SSEC, he was an Engineering Director…

• Don Setiawan

  

  Don Setiawan is a Principal Research Software Engineer for the UW Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC) at eScience Institute. He has expertise in Python programming, web development, geospatial data analytics, and cloud-based data engineering that he is very excited to share in his role. Don has been an Affiliate with UW eScience since 2017 as…

• Vani Mandava

  

  Vani Mandava is the Head of Engineering for the UW Scientific Software Engineering Center within eScience Institute. In her role, she is responsible for setting up the SSEC organization and work with research investigators to define the priorities and scope of software infrastructure that will strengthen the scientific software community. The primary mission of the…

• Cecilia Aragon

  

  Cecilia Aragon is a professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) at the University of Washington, where she is director of the Human-Centered Data Science Lab. Previously, she was a computer scientist in the Computational Research Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 2005, after earning her Ph.D. in Computer Science…

• Bernease Herman

  

  Bernease Herman joins the eScience Institute as a Data Scientist. Bernease was most recently a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, where she collaborated with operations research scientists and statisticians to add economic constraints and buying models to Amazon’s Inventory Planning and Control system. Previous to Amazon, Bernease worked on derivatives pricing and predictive modeling at…

• Scott Henderson

  

  My research strives to understand active tectonic processes including earthquakes and volcanism through geodetic measurements and numerical modeling. I use a variety of satellite systems such as Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) and Global Positioning Satellites (GPS) to detect and monitor displacements of the Earth’s surface. These measurements then constrain models of physical processes occurring…

• Joseph Hellerstein

  

  Joseph L. Hellerstein is a Senior Data Science Fellow and Research Scientist at the UW eScience Institute. He is an Affiliate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, and is a member of the UW Graduate Faculty. His major projects focus on the analysis of biological systems such as: predicting the phenotypes of microbe communities and…