{"602745":{"#nid":"602745","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CSE Explores the Boundaries of HPC, Data Science, and India","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs 2017 drew to a close, several faculty and alumni from the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) traveled across the globe to attended two conferences in India \u0026ndash; The 24\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E IEEE International Conference on \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hipc.org\/?utm_content=buffera0584\u0026amp;utm_medium=social\u0026amp;utm_source=twitter.com\u0026amp;utm_campaign=buffer\u0022\u003EHigh Performance Computing\u003C\/a\u003E (HiPC2017), held in Jaipur, and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/icmlds.org\/icmlds2017\/index\u0022\u003EIEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Science\u003C\/a\u003E (ICMLDS2017) in Greater Noida.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECSE Professor and Associate Chair \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/umit-v-catalyurek\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026Uuml;mit \u0026Ccedil;ataly\u0026uuml;rek\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E served as the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hipc.org\/organizing\/\u0022\u003Eprogram chair\u003C\/a\u003E of HiPC2017, which, coincidentally, was where he presented his first peer-reviewed paper in 1995. Now, 22 years later, \u0026Ccedil;ataly\u0026uuml;rek oversaw all aspects of the conference, from the technical program \u0026ndash; with a committee of more than 100 individuals \u0026ndash; that featured three keynote talks and 41 papers, selected from over 180 submissions. CSE Chair \u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Bader\u003C\/strong\u003E and CSE Professor and IDEaS co-Director \u003Cstrong\u003ESrinivas Aluru\u003C\/strong\u003E are members of the HiPC Steering Committee and attended the conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The quality of the papers was very good this year and I was very happy. It can be challenging to attract such good submissions when you have HPC conferences in locations that are not historically known for being pillars for that field of research,\u0026rdquo; said \u0026Ccedil;ataly\u0026uuml;rek.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAmong these papers, was CSE Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/srinivas-aluru\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESrinivas Aluru\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026rsquo;s\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E, \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EParallel Exact Dynamic Bayesian Network Structure Learning with Application to Gene Networks\u003C\/em\u003E, which earned a best paper finalist award.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECSE recent graduate, \u003Cstrong\u003EDevaret Makkar\u003C\/strong\u003E, presented the paper Exact and Parallel Triangle Counting in Dynamic Graphs, which discusses a new dynamic graph algorithm for counting triangles, on behalf of co-authors CSE Research Scientist \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/oded-green\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOded Green\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and CSE Chair \u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Bader\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESeveral days before HiPC2017, Bader attended ICMLDS2017, the first of an international conference series hosted by \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bennett.edu.in\/\u0022\u003EBennett University\u003C\/a\u003E, where he participated as as a keynote speaker.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bennett.edu.in\/\u0022\u003EBennett University\u003C\/a\u003E was established \u0026ndash; just 18 months ago prior to the conference \u0026ndash; as a startup academic venture in the suburbs of Delhi. It was founded by The Times Group, a conglomerate that owns several media brands throughout India.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of these brands,\u003Cem\u003E The Economic Times\u003C\/em\u003E, interviewed Bader about his keynote at ICMLDS2017, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/industry\/services\/education\/bennett-university-ieee-hold-global-meet-on-machine-learning-and-data-science\/articleshow\/62074454.cms\u0022\u003Epublishing it in the paper\u003C\/a\u003E the next morning. \u003Cem\u003EThe Times of India\u003C\/em\u003E, the sister platform to \u003Cem\u003EThe Economic Times\u003C\/em\u003E, also interviewed Bader about 5G abilities and published the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/breaking-shackles\/5g-will-enable-a-new-era-of-opportunity-says-david-bader\/\u0022\u003EQ\u0026amp;A online\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Times Group established Bennett University as an independent institute with the goals of revitalizing the research industry, addressing research needs across the region, and ultimately encouraging economic development of the country. The university, still in its infancy, hosted the conference as a means to introduce those in academia, industry, and international audiences, to the new concept.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The Times of India realized they needed a competitive advantage to encourage economic development of the country. In order to accomplish this with the creation of Bennett University, they gave the new school latitude to higher faculty and started collaborative research labs that are often joint with industry. In computing, they\u0026rsquo;ve started labs centered around companies such as Dell, NVIDIA, and others,\u0026rdquo; said Bader.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;One area they are investing in is using HPC for data science, and they have formed unique departments at the interface of traditional disciplines similar to our school [CSE] at Georgia Tech.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"CSE faculty travled to India to take part in two conferences, HiPC2017 and ICMLDS2017."}],"uid":"34540","created_gmt":"2018-02-22 15:09:07","changed_gmt":"2019-08-29 12:34:15","author":"Kristen Perez","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-02-22T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-02-22T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"602746":{"id":"602746","type":"image","title":"CSE in India: Umit and Srinivas","body":null,"created":"1519312351","gmt_created":"2018-02-22 15:12:31","changed":"1519312351","gmt_changed":"2018-02-22 15:12:31","alt":"","file":{"fid":"229739","name":"UmitandSrinivas copy.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/UmitandSrinivas%20copy.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/UmitandSrinivas%20copy.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":5106004,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/UmitandSrinivas%20copy.jpg?itok=CknOqAop"}}},"media_ids":["602746"],"groups":[{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"624060","name":"Center for High Performance Computing (CHiPC)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"177202","name":"HiPC"},{"id":"177203","name":"ICMLDS"},{"id":"177204","name":"HPC; high performance computing; supercomputing; Bader; Srinivas; Umit"},{"id":"702","name":"hpc"},{"id":"181217","name":"cse-hpc"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"},{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["kristen.perez@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}