Tag: software engineering

• Biodiversity Horizons: Predicting Climate Risks

  

  Partners: Christopher Trisos, Cory Merow, Andreas Schwarz Meyer, and Ben Carlson SSEC Engineers: Cordero Core, Niki Burggraff, Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, Ishika Khandelwal, and Anshul Tambay Research Goals and Domain As global temperatures rise, preserving biodiversity is essential for the planet’s health and human well-being. However, current biodiversity risk projections are often limited to a…

• 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…

• IDD Data Portal: Centralized Insights

  

  Partners: Sunny Juul, Kari Stephens, Josh Lovseth, and Grace Sun SSEC Engineers: Robert Culver 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 is incomplete…

• CECI Database: Modernizing for Scale

  

  Partners: Juliet Taylor, Dayton Allemann, and Jason Welch SSEC Engineers: Cordero Core and Don Setiawan 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. Coaches and…

• 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…

• AutoDoc: Automated Documentation of Empirical Research​

  

  Partners: Sebastian Musslick and Younes Strittmatter SSEC Engineer: Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez 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 of Python packages that together…

• ProSpecPy: Processing FTIR Spectroscopy Data

  

  Partner: Elizabeth Phillips SSEC Engineer: Anshul Tambay 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) at their active sites. As…

• 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…

• 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…

• 2022-23 “End of Year” Message from eScience Director Andy Connolly

  

  We are ending another academic year at the eScience Institute, and we are celebrating themes that have been central to our mission for many years. In September 2022, we held the first “Learning and Doing Data for Good” conference, where researchers and participants from around the country came together to discuss how data can help…