Tag: software engineering

• HPyX: Bringing High-Performance Parallelism to Python 

  

  Partners: Hartmut Kaiser, Rod Tohid, Andrew Lumsdaine  SSEC Engineers: Don Setiawan, Ayush Nag  Research Goals and Domain  HPyX bridges the gap between Python and high-performance computing by providing Python bindings for the HPX C++ Parallelism Library. HPX implements modern C++ concurrency and parallelism features, allowing for scalable execution across multi-core and distributed systems. HPyX leverages Python 3.13’s free-threading capabilities and Nanobind to expose these…

• Agentic AI for Research Workflows: SSEC hosts AI Panel 

  

  This fall, the UW Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC) hosted a community-driven meetup during Seattle AI Week focused on how AI is reshaping research workflows in academia, industry, and startups. The meetup included a panel moderated by SSEC Head of Engineering Vani Mandava and featuring Bodhisattwa Majumder from AI2, Shamsi Iqbal from Microsoft, Luke Kim from Spice AI and Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez from SSEC. Around sixty audience members listened as panelists discussed…

• Protein Design Pipeline: Standardizing Reproducibility   

  

  Partners:  Andrew Hunt, Magnus Bauer, Jasper Butcher, Rohith Krishna, Saman Salike SSEC Research Engineer: Anant Mittal Research Goals and Domain The University of Washington Institute for Protein Design (IPD), led by Nobel Prize-winning Director David Baker, is a cutting-edge research center that creates entirely new proteins to address challenges in medicine, technology, and sustainability through the application of novel artificial intelligence tools and experimental science. Applications of…

• OVRO-LWA Platform: Driving Accessibility 

  

  Partners: Casey Law, Nikita Kosogorov, Tanazza Khanam, Tom Morrell  SSEC Engineers: Don Setiawan, Cordero Core, Ishika Johari  Research Goals and Domain The Owens Valley Radio Observatory, Long Wavelength Array (OVRO-LWA) is a low-frequency (15–85 MHz) all-sky radio telescope designed to detect and study phenomena such as auroral emissions from exoplanets, gravitational wave counterparts, cosmic-ray air showers, and the 21-cm signal from the…

• Antenna: AI-Powered Entomology

  

  Partners: David Rolnick, Michael Bunsen, Francis Pelletier, Anna Viklund, Mohamed Elabbas SSEC Engineers: Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, Bhagyashree Wagh Research Goals and Domain The Antenna project studies entomological biodiversity by deploying AI-powered camera trap data, machine learning algorithms, and scalable data platforms to drive image collection, identification, and monitoring across diverse ecosystems. Entomological biodiversity is crucial for healthy ecosystems due to their…

• CA Biositing Tool: Leveraging High-Resolution Data

  

  Partners: Corinne Scown, Tyler Huntington, Peter Smith, Andrea Bailey, Meili Gong  SSEC Engineers: Niki Burggraf, Don Setiawan, Vraj Rajpura Research Goals and Domain The BioCircular Valley project aims to develop sustainable products from agricultural waste by creating a publicly accessible interactive map that shows feedstock types and availability as well as estimating downstream fuel performance and environmental impact to facilitate the circular bioeconomy…

• Software for Phylogenetic Trees: SSEC co-organizes Workshop in London

  

  This September, SSEC’s Don Setiawan traveled to London to co-organize a workshop with collaborators at the University of Copenhagen and Imperial College London. The workshop offered an overview of SSEC’s work on Phylo2Vec, a software package designed to accelerate phylogenetic research.  Phylogenetic trees are diagrams that illustrate species’ shared evolutionary history. Represented as bifurcating binary…

• SSEC collaborates on Workshop at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center

  

  Last week, Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez and Anshul Tambay from the Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC) joined researchers at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) for part of a week-long workshop focused on predicting the impacts of climate change on biodiversity. The event was part of the Biodiversity Horizons project, which aims to develop scalable, open-source…

• Software for Community-Driven Enumeration: Needs Assessment of People Experiencing Homelessness 

  

  Partners: Zack Almquist and June Yang SSEC Engineer: Anant Mittal Graduate Student Leads: Ihsan Kahveci, Emily Porter Undergraduate and Graduate Student Engineers: Arushi Agarwal, Hana Amos, Zack Crouse, Devanshi Desai, Elizabeth Deng, Kristen L. Gustafson, Finley Hutchison, Kaden Kapadia, Hannah Lam, Aryan Palave, KelliAnn Ramirez, Natalie Robbins, Hrudhai Umashankar, Jasmine Vuong, Ella Weinberg Research Goals…

• Staff Spotlight: Niki Burggraf

  

  By Kate Rich The eScience Staff Spotlight is a series featuring individual members of our team and their career journey. This week’s featured staff member is SSEC Senior Research Software Engineer Niki Burggraf.  From programming languages to human languages, Niki has always had a knack for translating knowledge across different systems. Growing up in the…