Tag: SSEC

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 2022-23 “End of Year” Message from eScience Director Andy Connolly

  

  We are ending another academic year at the eScience Institute, and we are celebrating themes that have been central to our mission for many years. In September 2022, we held the first “Learning and Doing Data for Good” conference, where researchers and participants from around the country came together to discuss how data can help…

• July Meetup for Research Software Engineers

  

  Join us for the Seattle Research Software Engineer (RSE) Meetup, a FREE event hosted and sponsored by the eScience Institute at the University of Washington.This introductory networking event is a great opportunity for Research Software Engineers, developers, and scientists in the Seattle area to connect, network, and build a community of RSEs. Whether you’re an experienced RSE…

• Vani Mandava joins UW as Head of Engineering for SSEC

  

  Vani Mandava joins UW as Head of Engineering to build a world-class software engineering team to transform scientific software development. The University of Washington eScience Institute welcomes Vani Mandava as the Head of Engineering for the newly formed UW Scientific Software Engineering Center SSEC (pronounced S Seek). Vani has most recently been leading Trustworthy AI research engagements…