Tag: SSEC

• Phylo2Vec: Accelerating Phylogenetic Research 

  

  Partners: Samir Bhatt, Neil Alexandre Scheidwasser, and Frederik Mølkjær Andersen SSEC Engineers: Don Setiawan, Madeline Gordon, and Ayush Nag Research Goals and Domain A phylogenetic tree is a diagram that illustrates the shared evolutionary history of a group of species. This diagram is represented as a bifurcating binary tree; a structure in which each node,…

• 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…

• 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…

• Echopype: Interoperability and Scalable Ocean Sonar Data Analysis ​

  

  Partners: Wu-Jung Lee and Emilio Mayorga SSEC Engineers: Don Setiawan and Valentina Staneva Research Goals and Domain 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 in marine ecosystems. Echosounders, or fish-finders, are high-frequency sonar systems that emit pulses of…

• NoisePy: Ambient Field Seismology

  

  Partners: Marine Denolle, Yiyu Ni, and Kuan-Fu Feng SSEC Engineers: Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez Research Goals and Domain The Earth’s ambient field contains a great deal of information about its structure. Changes in this structure occur at a vast range of temporal and spatial scales. We can record these changes thanks to the long-term deployment…

• Wet AI: Collaborative Neurobiology

  

  Partners: David Haussler, Matt Elliot, David Parks, and Lon Blauvelt SSEC Engineers: Cordero Core and Don Setiawan Research Goals and Domain Cerebral organoids are synthetic tissues derived from induced or natural stem cells within a laboratory setting. Once they are differentiated, these structures offer an avenue for researchers and students to probe and stimulate neural…

• Neglected Diagnostics: Democratizing Genetic Testing

  

  Partners: Hal Holmes, Misa Winters, and Cifeng Fang SSEC Engineers: Aniket Fadia and Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez Research Goals and Domain Genetic testing is routinely relied upon to detect the illegal trafficking of wildlife, the introduction of invasive species and pathogens, as well as  monitor disease spread or outbreaks that can devastate the health of…

• 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, and Ishika Khandelwal 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 few snapshots…

• 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…