On February 13, IDIES member Brice Menard was awarded the President’s Frontier Award in recognition of his exceptional ability to develop new and potentially far-reaching approaches to big data sets. Brice uses information that is widely available to researchers, but his imagination and ingenuity lead to striking results, such as new ways to measure distances … Continued
Alexander Szalay, Director of IDIES, will give a talk titled, “The Era of Surveys and the Fifth Paradigm of Science”, at the 233rd AAS meeting. Abstract: Starting with the SDSS and the Hubble Deep Field, astronomy has entered the Era of Surveys. Today we have covered a large fraction of the sky in multiple wavelengths. … Continued
The Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES) is pleased to announce its 2019 IDIES Seed Funding Program (SFP) offering. The goal of this initiative is to provide seed funding for data-intensive computing projects that (a) will involve areas relevant to IDIES and JHU institutional research priorities; (b) are multidisciplinary; and (c) build ideas and teams … Continued
The Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Sciences will jointly host a Visualization Hackathon with the University of Toronto. The Hackathon will be on Friday & Saturday, January 25 & 26, 2019 from 9 AM – 5 PM (approx), with sessions and presentations at both Homewood Campus at JHU, and at the University of Toronto. … Continued
Talk at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting on Biological Data Science: Genevieve Stein-O’Brien Genevieve Stein-O’Brien, a post doctoral fellow in Elana Fertig’s and Loyal Goff’s labs, present her work on Bayesian decomposition and transfer learning methods this year at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory meeting on Biological Data Science and at the annual meeting of … Continued
Steven Salzberg to Give Keynote Address at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s 3rd Biological Data Science Meeting The Biological Science Data meeting begins on Wednesday, November 7 at 7:30 p.m. and continues through Saturday, November 10. The scope of the meeting will include the infrastructure, software, and algorithms needed to analyze large data sets in biological … Continued
The Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science will hold the 2018 Annual Symposium at the Mudd Hall Auditorium on Friday, October 19, 2018. The symposium brings together experts in Big Data from across Johns Hopkins University, the government and industry to share their discoveries, techniques, ideas, and insights. Our focus is on a multi-disciplinary … Continued
Johns Hopkins University recently announced recipients of the JHU Discovery Awards. The 2018 Awards were awarded to 30 faculty teams across eight Johns Hopkins divisions. Discovery Awards provide grants to cross-divisional teams, whose work is poised to make new discoveries or creative works. Recipients were chosen from nearly 200 proposals. Over one hundred Johns Hopkins … Continued
IDIES Director Alex Szalay will lead the two-year, $1.8 million dollar project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create what may become the world’s largest scientific data storage network. NSF’s investment in Open Storage Network (OSN) builds on $1 million in seed money from Schmidt Futures. Open Storage Network systems will be placed … Continued
Earlier this week Johns Hopkins University announced 32 Faculty member recipients of Johns Hopkins Catalyst Awards, including IDIES affiliate Professor El-Awady of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Jaafar El-Awady is one of 32 recipients of the $75K award selected for 2018. Awardees are selected on the basis of their academic accomplishments, creativity and originality, and … Continued