
Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs and Spokes Workshop #BDHubs
Held in conjunction with the 31st IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
Buena Vista Palace Hotel
Orlando, Florida USA
June 2, 2017
The ability to access, analyze, and extract insight from vast amounts of data has driven innovation in several areas of science, medicine, and industry. However, an ongoing challenge has been how to apply insights gained from data-intensive research in one sector (be it academia, industry, government, etc.) to other sectors and wider audiences. In addition, there are several challenges specific to certain regions of the country, which could benefit from frequent face-to-face collaboration.
To address these issues, the National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded $6 million to establish four regional Hubs across the nation [1] which focus on data science innovation and partnership building. The consortia are coordinated from: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Midwest Hub) [2]; Columbia University (Northeast Hub) [3]; Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of North Carolina (South Hub) [4]; and the University of California, San Diego, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Washington (West Hub) [5]. These Hubs consist of over 250 partners from all 50 states. Collaborators include researchers from academia, industry, non-profits, and various local, tribal, state, and federal government groups.
During the fall of 2015, NSF released a solicitation [6] calling for Big Data Spoke projects (BD Spokes) and planning grants that will work in concert with the BD Hubs to achieve a specific mission. The activities by the BD Spokes will be guided by the themes of: (1) accelerating progress towards addressing societal grand challenges relevant to regional and national priority areas; (2) helping automate the Big Data lifecycle; and (3) enabling access to and increasing use of important and valuable available data assets. In September 2016, NSF awarded ten Big Data spokes projects and ten planning grants through this solicitation, totaling $10 million in funding.
This full-day event will allow interested parties to learn more about the BD Hubs and Spokes, especially how to become involved in their activities. During the opening panel, the executive directors for each BD Hub will introduce the activities and opportunities for their region. The main attraction of the workshop will consist of presentations from select BD Spoke and planning grant investigators, which will highlight the current research related activities facilitated by the BD Hubs.
References
[1] "Establishing A Brain Trust For Data Science (National Science Foundation)". https://www.nsf.gov., 2016
[2] "Midwest Big Data Hub". http://midwestbigdatahub.org/., 2016.
[3] "North East Big Data Hub". http://nebigdatahub.org/., 2016.
[4] "South Big Data Hub". http://www.southbdhub.org/., 2016.
[5] "West Big Data Innovation Hub". http://westbigdatahub.org/., 2016.
[6] "Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs: Establishing Spokes To Advance Big Data Applications (BD Spokes)". https://www.nsf.gov., 2016
Workshop Co-chairs
Chaitan Baru
Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE)
National Science Foundation
Arlington, Virginia, USA
cbaru@nsf.gov
Fen Zhao
Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE)
National Science Foundation
Arlington, Virginia, USA
fzhao@nsf.gov
Joanna Chan
AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow
On assignment to the National Science Foundation CISE
jchan@nsf.gov
Organizing Committee
Melissa Cragin
Midwest Big Data Hub
René Bastón
Northeast Big Data Hub
Renata Rawlings-Goss
South Big Data Hub
Lea Shanley
South Big Data Hub
Meredith Lee
West Big Data Hub
The ability to access, analyze, and extract insight from vast amounts of data has driven innovation in several areas of science, medicine, and industry. However, an ongoing challenge has been how to apply insights gained from data-intensive research in one sector (be it academia, industry, government, etc.) to other sectors and wider audiences. In addition, there are several challenges specific to certain regions of the country, which could benefit from frequent face-to-face collaboration.
To address these issues, the National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded $6 million to establish four regional Hubs across the nation [1] which focus on data science innovation and partnership building. The consortia are coordinated from: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Midwest Hub) [2]; Columbia University (Northeast Hub) [3]; Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of North Carolina (South Hub) [4]; and the University of California, San Diego, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Washington (West Hub) [5]. These Hubs consist of over 250 partners from all 50 states. Collaborators include researchers from academia, industry, non-profits, and various local, tribal, state, and federal government groups.
During the fall of 2015, NSF released a solicitation [6] calling for Big Data Spoke projects (BD Spokes) and planning grants that will work in concert with the BD Hubs to achieve a specific mission. The activities by the BD Spokes will be guided by the themes of: (1) accelerating progress towards addressing societal grand challenges relevant to regional and national priority areas; (2) helping automate the Big Data lifecycle; and (3) enabling access to and increasing use of important and valuable available data assets. In September 2016, NSF awarded ten Big Data spokes projects and ten planning grants through this solicitation, totaling $10 million in funding.
This full-day event will allow interested parties to learn more about the BD Hubs and Spokes, especially how to become involved in their activities. During the opening panel, the executive directors for each BD Hub will introduce the activities and opportunities for their region. The main attraction of the workshop will consist of presentations from select BD Spoke and planning grant investigators, which will highlight the current research related activities facilitated by the BD Hubs.
References
[1] "Establishing A Brain Trust For Data Science (National Science Foundation)". https://www.nsf.gov., 2016
[2] "Midwest Big Data Hub". http://midwestbigdatahub.org/., 2016.
[3] "North East Big Data Hub". http://nebigdatahub.org/., 2016.
[4] "South Big Data Hub". http://www.southbdhub.org/., 2016.
[5] "West Big Data Innovation Hub". http://westbigdatahub.org/., 2016.
[6] "Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs: Establishing Spokes To Advance Big Data Applications (BD Spokes)". https://www.nsf.gov., 2016
Workshop Co-chairs
Chaitan Baru
Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE)
National Science Foundation
Arlington, Virginia, USA
cbaru@nsf.gov
Fen Zhao
Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE)
National Science Foundation
Arlington, Virginia, USA
fzhao@nsf.gov
Joanna Chan
AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow
On assignment to the National Science Foundation CISE
jchan@nsf.gov
Organizing Committee
Melissa Cragin
Midwest Big Data Hub
René Bastón
Northeast Big Data Hub
Renata Rawlings-Goss
South Big Data Hub
Lea Shanley
South Big Data Hub
Meredith Lee
West Big Data Hub
About this Workshop
Each BD Hub has fostered stakeholders engagement in a variety of themes, allowing for broad appeal to IPDPS attendees. Each Hub supports multiple projects via Letters of Collaboration on thematic areas. Information on these projects (BD Spokes and Planning projects) are listed below:
Midwest BD Hub |
SPOKE: Advanced Computational Neuroscience Network (ACNN) Richard Gonzalez, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Dhabaleswar Panda, Ohio State University Satya Sahoo, Case Western Reserve University Franco Pestilli, Indiana University |
SPOKE: Digital Agriculture - Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Plant Sciences and Education Grant McGimpsey, University of North Dakota Main Campus |
PLANNING: Big Data Innovations for Bridge Health Robin Gandhi, University of Nebraska at Omaha |
PLANNING: Cyberinfrastructure to Enhance Data Quality and Support Reproducible Results in Sensor Originated Big Data Elisa Bertino, Purdue University |
PLANNING: Networked Resilience of Communities Facing Natural and Social Emergencies Marshall Poole, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Northeast BD Hub |
SPOKE: A Licensing Model and Ecosystem for Data Sharing Samuel Madden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tim Kraska, Brown University Jane Greenberg, Drexel University |
SPOKE: Grand Challenges for Data-Driven Education Beverly Woolf, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Ivon Arroyo; Worcester Polytechnic Institute Ryan Baker, Columbia University Teachers College |
SPOKE: Integration of environmental factors and causal reasoning approaches for large-scale observational health research Chirag Patel, Harvard University Gregory Cooper, University of Pittsburgh Vasant Honavar, Pennsylvania State University at University Park Noemie Elhadad, Columbia University |
PLANNING: Big Data Literacy: Building Capacity for Regional Collaboration in Closing the Big Data Divide Stephen Uzzo, New York Hall of Science |
PLANNING: Cross-organization Big Data Cyber Attack Awareness John Yen, Pennsylvania State University at University Park |
PLANNING: Planning for Privacy and Security in Big Data Rebecca Wright, Rutgers University Adam Smith, Pennsylvania State University |
PLANNING: Partnerships for Energy Cycle Innovation through Big Data (PPEID) Abani Patra, State University of New York at Buffalo |
South BD Hub |
SPOKE: Large-scale Medical Informatics for Patient Care Coordination and Engagement Gari Clifford, Emory University |
SPOKE: Smart Grids Big Data Mladen Kezunovic, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station Zoran Obradovic, Temple University Santiago Grijalva, Georgia Tech Research Corporation |
SPOKE: Using Big Data for Environmental Sustainability: Big Data + AI Technology = Accessible, Usable, Useful Knowledge! Ashok Goel, Georgia Tech Research Corporation Jennifer Hammock, Smithsonian Institution |
PLANNING: Rare Disease Observatory Rada Chirkova, North Carolina State University Bruce Cairns, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
West BD Hub |
SPOKE: Accelerating and Catalyzing Reproducibility in Scientific Computation and Data Synthesis Michael Barton, Arizona State University |
SPOKE: MetroInsight: Knowledge Discovery and Real-time Interventions from Sensory Data Flows in Urban Spaces Rajesh Gupta, University of California at San Diego Mani Srivastava, University of California at Los Angeles Shade Shutters, Arizona State University |
PLANNING: BD for Policing in the western United States Eric Lindquist, Boise State University |
PLANNING: Increasing collaborations in proteogenomics applications of genetic data Eric Deutsch, Institute for Systems Biology Andreas Prlic, University of California at San Diego |
Meeting Agenda
8:00 AM | Welcome Remarks |
8:10 AM | Introductory Remarks Big Data Spokes 2017-2018 Fen Zhao, National Science Foundation Harnessing the Data Revolution Chaitan Baru, National Science Foundation |
8:30 AM | Keynote Address Predictive Analytics using AWS Bio: Using Cloud to harness the Fourth Paradigm Bio: Scientific Computing with the Google Compute Platform Bio: |
10:00 AM | Coffee Break |
10:30 AM |
Panel of BD Hub Executive Directors (brief presentations followed by Q&A) Rene Baston, Columbia University & Northeast Big Data Hub Melissa Cragin, University of Illinois-Champaign & Midwest Big Data Hub Meredith Lee, University of California at Berkeley & West Big Data Hub Renata Rawlings-Goss, Georgia Institute of Technology & South Big Data Hub Lea Shanley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & South Big Data Hub |
11:45 AM | A Sociotechnical Investigation of BDHubs Steve Slota, University of California at Irvine Stephen Slota is a Post-Doctoral Scholar from the University of California at Irvine. He studies infrastructures of knowledge production with a special focus on science studies and policy. |
12:15 PM | Lunch |
1:30 PM | BD Spoke and Planning Grant Presentations Part 1 (four @ 20 min each, 10 for talk, 10 for Q&A)
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2:50 PM | Coffee break |
3:20 PM | BD Spoke and Planning Grant Presentations Part 2 (five @ 20 min each, 10 for talk, 10 for Q&A)
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5:00 PM | Closing Remarks |
5:10 PM | Free-form discussion and networking |