Tag: software engineering

• IDD Data Portal: Centralized Insights

  

  Partners Sunny Juul, Director, Cultivate Learning Kari Stephens, Associate Professor, UW Medicine Josh Lovseth, Data Services Manager, UW Medicine Grace Sun, UW Medicine SSEC Engineers Robert Culver, Principal Software Consultant Anshul Tambay, Technical Program Manager One in 6 children have an intellectual and/or developmental disability (IDD). Despite this high prevalence, there are critical gaps in…

• CECI Database: Modernizing for Scale

  

  Partners Juliet Taylor, Deputy Director, Cultivate Learning Dayton Allemann, Web Application Developer, Cultivate Learning Jason Welch, Web Project Manager, Cultivate Learning SSEC Engineers Cordero Core, Senior Research Software Engineer Don Setiawan, Senior Research Software Engineer Developed as a collaboration between early learning professionals and the University of Washington, the Coach and Educator Community Interface (CECI)…

• Caustics: Simulating Gravitational Lensing

  

  Partners Yashar Hezaveh, Director, Ciela Institute  Laurence Perreault-Levasseur, Assistant Professor, Ciela Institute  Connor Stone, Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, Ciela Institute  SSEC Engineers Don Setiawan, Senior Research Software Engineer Cordero Core, Senior Research Software Engineer Gravitational lensing occurs when a large mass (e.g. a galaxy) lies between an observer (Earth) and a light source (another galaxy). These…

• AutoDoc: Automated Documentation of Empirical Research 

  

  Partners Sebastian Musslick, Director, Autonomous Empirical Research Group  Younes Strittmatter, Research Assistant, Autonomous Empirical Research Group  SSEC Engineers Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, Senior Principal Software Engineer AutoRA is a collection of Python packages that together form a framework for closed loop empirical research. The packages allow users to set variables, weights, and actions to perform…

• ProSpecPy: Processing FTIR Spectroscopy Data

  

  Partners Elizabeth Phillips, Postdoctoral Scientist, Vincent Group @ Oxford University SSEC Engineers Anshul Tambay, Technical Program Manager  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…

• 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…

• Echopype: Ocean Acoustics

  

  Partners Wu-Jung Lee, Senior Oceanographer, Applied Physics Laboratory at UW Emilio Mayorga, Researcher, Applied Physics Laboratory at UW eScience Institute/SSEC Engineers Valentina Staneva, Senior Data Scientist Don Setiawan, Senior Software Engineer Scientists commonly use active sonar systems to collect data about mid-trophic level animals, such as zooplankton and small fish that play an important role…

• NoisePy: Ambient Field Seismology in Python 

  

  Partners Marine Denolle, Assistant Professor, UW Earth and Space Sciences  Yiyu Ni, PhD Student Kuan-Fu Feng, Postdoctoral Scholar SSEC Engineers Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, Senior Principal Software Engineer NoisePy is a software package used to image the Earth’s subsurface and monitor its changes through time. It performs large-scale cross-correlation of time series data recorded by networks…

• WetAI: Collaborative Neurobiology 

  

  Partners David Haussler, Scientific Director, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz.  Matt Elliot, PhD Student, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute  David Parks, PhD Student, UC Santa Cruz Department of Computer Science  Lon Blauvelt, Software Engineer, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute  SSEC Engineers Cordero Core, Senior Research Software Engineer  Don Setiawan, Senior…