Who we work with
- Faculty and research groups who need software, data pipelines, or AI tooling built and maintained around their research.
- Fellows and postdocs, including the Schmidt AI in Science Fellows, who want code review, sustainable development practices, and help preparing software for public release.
- Nonprofits and public-interest organizations, including grantees of The 11th Hour Project, who need data tools.
How an engagement works
- Scoping conversation. Tell us about the research question, the data, and what a finished result looks like. We suggest an approach and a rough level of effort.
- Proposal. For funded work we help write the software and data sections of grant proposals and budget for engineering time.
- Build. We work in shared repositories with regular check-ins and documentation throughout.
- Handoff. Every project ends with code you can run, maintain, and cite.
Contact
Email CoreFacility@uchicago.edu with a short description of your project. We typically reply within a week.
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