Thursday, March 6, 2025 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
This workshop, hosted in collaboration with Georgia Tech’s Center for Scientific Software Engineering, focused on sharing research and development experiences as they relate to open source projects and scientific software both from Georgia Tech developers and from the local Atlanta academic community. The event included invited speakers from local open source projects, updates from Georgia Tech’s Open Source Program Office and Center for Scientific Software Engineering, and lightning talks from students involved in open source development. The event was held in-person at Georgia Tech’s Global Learning Center in Atlanta’s Midtown area.
Speaker Materials
Please see this Figshare collection for all the speaker slides. Specific talk slides and videos of talks are also linked in the agenda below. Note that most talks were not recorded, except for some of the introductory sessions.
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Workshop Agenda
| Time (EDT) | Speaker | Title |
| 8:00 | Breakfast and Registration | |
| 8:30 | Jeffrey Young, Fang Liu Directors, Open Source Program Office | Updates from Georgia Tech’s OSPO [slides] [video recording] |
| 9:00 | Alex Orso, Jeffrey Young Co-Director, SSE Center | News from the Scientific Software Engineering Center [slides] [video recording] |
| 9:30 | Dillon Henry Digital Accessioning Archivist Georgia Tech Library | Your Code in a Thousand Years: Long Term Planning for Digital Storage, Preservation, and Access [slides] |
| 10:00 | Break | |
| 10:30 | Sayeed Choudhury Associate Dean for Digital Infrastructure OSPO Director Carnegie Mellon University | Open Source AI and the Open Forum for AI [slides] |
| 11:00 | Parv Mahajan Advanced Concepts Laboratory AI Safety Initiative | Examining Concepts of AI Safety [slides] |
| 11:30 | Lahiru Jayathilake Yasith Jayawardana Center for Artificial Intelligence in Science and Engineering (ARTISAN) | Advancements in the Apache Airavata and Cybershuttle Platforms [slides] Related Websites – [Airavata] – [Cybershuttle] |
| 12:00 | Lunch; GLC 1st floor | |
| 1:00 | Faculty Lightning Talks | Lightning Talks of ~15 minutes to discuss new and ongoing OSS research |
| 1:00 | Shazibul Islam Shamim Assistant Professor of Software Engineering, Kennesaw State University | Open security challenges for practitioners in cloud-native ecosystems [slides] |
| 1:15 | Murray Patterson Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Georgia State University | Open source bioinformatics and computer science experiences [no slides] |
| 1:30 | Stephen Garrett Associate Director, Computational Music for All Lab | EarSketch – a musical approach to teaching programming [slides] [Related Website] |
| 2:00 | Ava Thrasher Research Engineer, Space Exploration Analysis Laboratory (SEAL) | Software for Optical Navigation and Instrument Calibration (SONIC) [slides] [Related Repo] |
| 2:15 | Qi Tang Assistant Professor, School of Computational Science and Engineering | Harnessing scalable open source packages for magnetic confinement fusion modeling [slides] |
| 2:30 | Break | |
| 3:00 | Student Lightning Talks | Lightning Talks of ~10 minutes to discuss new and ongoing OSS research |
| Austin Adams | Qwerty: A Basis-Oriented Quantum Programming Language [slides] [Related Repo] | |
| Darshan Singh | Experiences with the Alpine Linux open source platform (GT VSIP 2024 Participant) [slides] [Related Repo] | |
| Breanna Shi | Biological and Social Science Machine Learning Applications [slides] [Related Repo] | |
| Chihyo Ahn | Vortex, a RISC-V open source GPU research platform [slides] [Related Repo] | |
| Aishwarya Mathew | Experiences with Kubestellar (GT VSIP 2024 Participant) [slides] [Related Repo] | |
| Benjamin Wilfong | MFC: Exascale computational fluid dynamics [slides] [Related Repo] | |
| Katie Kim | Sensor Fusion for Robotics and Computer Vision Applications! [slides] [Related Repo] |