The Institute for Research and Innovation in Software for High Energy Physics (IRIS-HEP) is an NSF-funded software institute, involving 22 different institutions, that aims to develop the state-of-the-art software cyberinfrastructure required to meet the challenges of data intensive research at the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) at CERN, and other planned experimental particle physics experiments of the 2020s. Data from the HL-LHC will explore key fundamental questions like the matter-anti-matter asymmetry and the search for Dark Matter. The University of Washington Physics Department is a founding member of IRIS-HEP, active in research for improving HL-LHC analysis and time-to-physics. Professor Gordon Watts is co-PI and deputy executive director of IRIS-HEP.