DMV-RSE Affinity Group

Overview

DMV (Delaware-Maryland-Virginia) RSE is a regional affinity group for professionals in RSE and RSE-adjacent disciplines. We organize informal gatherings where interested professionals can connect and learn from each other.

Membership

DMV-RSE is open to anyone who considers themselves a research software engineer or ally and lives in the DMV area, regardless of job title or domain. This includes workers in academic research (students, postdocs, and professors), as well as RSE professionals in government, industry and other sectors (e.g. non-profit orgs).

To stay informed, please:

If you are interested in giving a talk or have other ideas for a future meetup, please contact one of the coordinators (see the Questions? section below).

Activities

We organize in-person meetups approximately every 2-3 months. These are currently hosted at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology in Washington DC. Each meetup consists of an invited talk by a guest speaker on a focused RSE topic with time for networking before and after. The event is followed by a dinner/happy hour at a nearby restaurant.

Upcoming meetups

  • January 22, 2025: Career development in RSE: from writing successful recommendation letters to publishing research code with examples from space physics projects.

Archive of past meetups

Group coordinators

  • Jennifer Melot, Technical Lead for the Emerging Technology Observatory initiative at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, managing a small engineering team and building data pipelines and web applications.
  • Kristijan Armeni, Assistant Research Scientist at the Johns Hopkins University, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, working at the intersection of computational cognitive neuroscience, AI, and language

Questions?

Reach out to group coordinators Jennifer Melot and Kristijan Armeni with questions.