Tag: National Science Foundation

• 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…

• NSF-funded CloudBank Now Operational

  

  The eScience Institute at the University of Washington; the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego; the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society at UC Berkeley; and Strategic Blue have entered production operations of the CloudBank program, which aims to simplify the use of public clouds across computer science…

• Partnerships for impact: NSF awards an additional $4M to the West Big Data Innovation Hub co-led by the UW eScience Institute

  

  June 19, 2019 The National Science Foundation (NSF) is awarding a second round of funding for the Regional Big Data Innovation Hubs – organizations launched in 2015 to build and strengthen data science partnerships across industry, academia, nonprofits, and government to address scientific and societal challenges. Each of the hubs will receive $4 million over…

• David Beck appointed associate director of DIRECT program

  

  By Robin Brooks David Beck, eScience senior data science fellow, director of research and life sciences, and research assistant professor in chemical engineering, has been promoted to associate director of the Data Intensive Research Enabling Clean Technologies (DIRECT) program. DIRECT, a UW Clean Energy Institute graduate training program in data-enabled discovery and design of advanced…

• Fellow Emily Fox receives presidential award

  

  By Robin Brooks Emily Fox, eScience Institute data science fellow, has won the 2017 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Fox, associate professor of statistics and of computer science and engineering, and Amazon Professor of Machine Learning, was nominated by the National Science Foundation “for her groundbreaking work in large-scale Bayesian modeling and computational approaches…