{"620187":{"#nid":"620187","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Koby Hayashi Aims to Emphasize Interpretability with HPC-focused Fellowship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(CSE) first-year Ph.D. student\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=2m0TLK0AAAAJ\u0026amp;hl=en\u0022\u003EKoby Hayashi\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Ewon the highly competitive\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.krellinst.org\/csgf\/about-doe-csgf\u0022\u003EDepartment of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(DOE CSGF) for 2019-2020.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.krellinst.org\/csgf\/alumni\/listing-by-academic-institution\u0022\u003EDOE CSGF alumni listing\u003C\/a\u003E, Hayashi is the first Georgia Tech recipient of this award since 2011 and the first-ever recipient of this award from the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Computing\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESince its establishment in 1991, the DOE CSGF has provided benefits and opportunities to students pursuing doctoral degrees in fields that use\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cse.gatech.edu\/content\/high-performance-computing\u0022\u003Ehigh-performance computing\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(HPC) to solve complex science and engineering problems.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Many fields at this time are suffering from a number of big data problems. HPC is not exempt from this issue,\u0026rdquo; said Hayashi. \u0026ldquo;Through my research, I am aiming to develop tools that alleviate issues for applications that produce data that is too large or too complex to be stored and analyzed with HPC.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHayashi\u0026rsquo;s focus in HPC examines applications in data analysis and emphasizes scalable algorithms and software for the mining, analysis, and compression of data that may be modeled by tensors and hypergraphs.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Specifically, my focus is on non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) and its variants, tensor factorizations and joint factorizations,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;My goal is to demonstrate the usefulness of these methods combined with developing efficient implementations to allow researchers in various domains to utilize them in their work.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECSE Professors\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EHaesun Park\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eand\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ERich Vuduc\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eadvise Hayashi\u003Cstrong\u003E.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;This is a very exciting and well-deserved opportunity,\u0026rdquo; said Vuduc. \u0026ldquo;What makes Koby\u0026rsquo;s proposed research, which is on graph and hypergraph clustering using NMF and tensor methods, especially impactful is his emphasis on interpretability,\u0026nbsp;which is\u0026nbsp;basically giving end-users analysis results that are easier to understand.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe DOE CSGF will provide Hayashi with a yearly stipend of $37,000, payment of full tuition and required fees during the appointment period, an academic allowance, up to four years of total support, and a 12-week practicum experience at one of the 21 DOE national laboratories or sites.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"CSE Ph.D. student Koby Hayashi wins the prestigious DOE CSG Fellowship focused on HPC."}],"uid":"34540","created_gmt":"2019-04-08 16:10:14","changed_gmt":"2019-08-23 20:34:24","author":"Kristen Perez","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-04-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-04-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"620186":{"id":"620186","type":"image","title":"Koby Hayashi Presents at HiPC","body":null,"created":"1554739389","gmt_created":"2019-04-08 16:03:09","changed":"1554739389","gmt_changed":"2019-04-08 16:03:09","alt":"Koby Hayashi presenting on stage at HiPC in India.","file":{"fid":"236130","name":"Koby Hayashi Photo.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Koby%20Hayashi%20Photo.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Koby%20Hayashi%20Photo.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":342225,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Koby%20Hayashi%20Photo.jpg?itok=vinMQCqr"}}},"media_ids":["620186"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"431631","name":"OMS"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"624060","name":"Center for High Performance Computing (CHiPC)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2827","name":"Department of Engergy"},{"id":"4549","name":"coc"},{"id":"4305","name":"cse"},{"id":"180982","name":"Koby Hayashi"},{"id":"181217","name":"cse-hpc"},{"id":"3427","name":"High performance computing"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKristen Perez\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["kristen.perez@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}