COFFEE HOUR
What is the RSE Coffee Hour?
The Research Software Engineering Coffee Hour at UD is a casual bi-weekly event for students, researchers and faculty who are interested in starting, or are currently on working on projects that involve software engineering skills to advance their research.
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Who is a Research Software Engineer (RSE)?
Someone who combines software development skills with an understanding of research methodologies. The RSE works closely with domain scientists (or is a part of the domain team), gaining an understanding of the problems they face, and then develops, maintains and extends software to provide answers to the problems.
Participation
Coffee hours are designed for fostering connections and mutual support. Active engagement in the discussion is essential!
Why Join?
Meet with other folks at UD who are building and maintaining code, applications and software to help advance scientific research. Build connections and help each other with any questions or coding problems you may encounter. You will also be connected to a larger Research Software Engineering network, US-RSE and meet with professionals and experts in the field.
Student Coffee Hour Upcoming and Previous Meetings
Upcoming Meetups
- Wednesday September 17th
- Agenda TBD
Fall 2025 Meetups
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Tuesday, September 2nd
- Topic of discussion was software testing for best practices
Summer 2025 Meetups
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Tuesday, July 16th
- Created teams to answer software best practices questions
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Tuesday, July 1st
- Jack Davis, Associate AD, Buisness Intelligence, Analytics and Strategy gave a talk on the sports analytics baseball project in collaboration with DARSE
- Began capturing shared knowledge to help create a Research Software Engineer Best Practices Handbook
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Tuesday, June 17th
- Aakanksh Chittiprolu, student RSE, talked about his sports analytics project
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Tuesday, June 3rd
- Asritha Polu, student RSE, discussed her contributions to the Plant & Soil project she works on
Spring 2025 Meetups
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Tuesday May 27, 2025
- Daniel Peart, Data Services Librarian, presented on case study submitted to DARSE
- Saeideh Valipour, MSDS student, presented on Biomedical literature data with LLM as Explanability Framwork project
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Friday May 2, 2025
- Nihaal Chowdhary Surpani and Yamini Medapati, student RSEs discussed the RSE career path
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Wednesday April 16, 2025
- Saish Padhye, graduate student, presented on Detection of Walware and Injections Created by LLMs
- Reshmitha Uppala, graduate student, presented on Spatiotemporal Analysis of Food Accessibility and Health Outcomes in U.S. Cities
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Friday April 4, 2025
- Shardul Mehetar, MSDS student, presented on Data-Driven Option Pricing with LLMs for Wuantitative Finance
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Wednesday March 12, 2025
- Introduction to DARSE and what is a Research Software Engineer
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Tuesday Feb 4, 2025
- First coffee hour meetup