Tag: software engineering
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Offshore Geodesy: Advancing Research and Collaboration in Seafloor Deformation
Partners David Schmidt, Principal Investigator, University of Washington Dept. Of Earth and Space Sciences John DeSanto, Post Doctoral Researcher, University of Washington Dept. Of Earth and Space Sciences SSEC Engineers Don Setiawan, Senior Research Software Engineer, SSEC The Near-trench Community Geodetic Experiment, informally known as Offshore Geodesy, is a five-year NSF-funded project aimed at establishing…
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Neglected Diagnostics: Democratizing Genetic Testing
Partners Hal Holmes, Chief Engineer, Conservation X Labs Misa Winters, Senior Molecular Scientist, Conservation X Labs Cifeng Fang, Principal Engineer, Conservation X Labs SSEC Engineers Aniket Fadia, Research Software Engineer, SSEC Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, Senior Principal Software Engineer, SSEC Genetic testing is routinely relied upon to detect illegal trafficking of wildlife, the introduction of…