Tag: SSEC

• 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: Zach 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…

• ICESat-2 Hackweek 2025: Open Software for Earth Satellites

  

  By Kate Rich In 2018, NASA launched the Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite 2 (ICESat-2) into space for scientific research. The satellite enables scientists to measure the elevation of tree canopies, oceans, sea ice, and ice sheets across the globe with its photon-counting laser altimeter. With these data, researchers can further explore how the…

• 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…

• Staff Spotlight: Cordero Core

  

  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 Cordero Core, a Senior Research Software Engineer at our Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC). In and outside of the office, Cordero brings creative insights to technical problems. At SSEC,…

• BioEthics: Lay Summaries for Research Participants

  

  Partner: Kate MacDuffie SSEC Engineers: Niki Burggraff, Apoorva Sheera, and Ying-Hsiang Huang Research Goals and Domain The Bioethics Team from the University of Washington Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) consults researchers and personnel on how to ethically engage with research participants and human subjects who inquire about their research studies. Researchers who conduct human…

• 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…

• 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, Don Setiawan, and Anant Mittal 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.…