{"620627":{"#nid":"620627","#data":{"type":"news","title":"South Big Data Regional Innovation Hub Hosts Annual All-hands Meeting ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/southbigdatahub.org\/\u0022\u003ESouth Big Data Regional Innovation Hub (SBDH)\u003C\/a\u003E hosted its annual all-hands meeting last week on April 9-10 in the Technology Square Research Building on the Georgia Institute of Technology campus. Themed \u0026ldquo;Breaking Silos, Bridging Solutions, and Accelerating Partnerships,\u0026rdquo; the successful meeting was organized to build the community by bringing together the broad SBDH membership to share information on data and data science projects, tools, and discoveries.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s Executive Vice President for Research \u003Cstrong\u003EChaouki T. Abdallah\u003C\/strong\u003E launched the meeting with welcoming remarks, including stressing the importance of the SBDH for \u0026ldquo;taking scientific approaches to solving social issues, including those in healthcare and smart cities.\u0026rdquo; He lauded the hub\u0026rsquo;s work in \u0026ldquo;outstanding research on smart grids, a smartphone app for healthcare, and the DataUp program.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe accomplishments Abdallah referenced hail from research coming from SBDH spoke projects, which are each funded with a $1 million award to focus on regional challenges. The Smart Grids Big Data group project includes 52 academic partners, 32 industry service providers and utilities, and 22 government and non-profit partners. The group discovered the potential for\u0026nbsp;major improvements in smart grid operation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother spoke project, Large Scale Medical Informatics for Patient Care Coordination and Engagement, includes a six-university team that developed a smartphone app and cloud infrastructure to analyze patient behavior, environment, and health to provide insights into health effects of daily behaviors, with the goal of understanding and mitigating health disparities in African American and Hispanic populations.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd finally, SBDH Executive Director \u003Cstrong\u003ERenata Rawlings-Goss\u003C\/strong\u003E led the DataUp program to increase the capacity of Southern schools to teach data science, particularly at minority-serving institutions,\u0026nbsp;community\u0026nbsp;colleges, and four-year liberal arts\u0026nbsp;colleges. The effort resulted in a 50-page report that provided integral data and information for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine\u0026#39;s project \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nap.edu\/catalog\/25104\/data-science-for-undergraduates-opportunities-and-options\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EEnvisioning the Data Science Discipline: The Undergraduate Perspective\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAttended by more than 100 individuals, the meeting included participation by researchers from key universities in the Southern region, representatives from local companies in the healthcare and consulting industries, as well as members of government entities.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The SBDH serves 16 Southern states from Delaware to Texas, and Washington D.C. with more than 1,000 members from 290 organizations, including academia, industry, government, and non-profits,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Cstrong\u003ESrinivas Aluru\u003C\/strong\u003E, the principal investigator (PI) for the SBDH, co-executive director of the Institute for Data Engineering and Science, and a professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering. \u0026ldquo;The all-hands meeting is one of the most important events we hold as it is integral to fostering R\u0026amp;D collaborations in the thematic areas of interest to the SBDH region.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn important component of the first day of the meeting was a panel discussion by the PIs for the six spoke visionary projects. The spoke leaders include three Georgia Tech faculty members: \u003Cstrong\u003EAshok K. Goel\u003C\/strong\u003E from the School of Interactive Computing, \u003Cstrong\u003EGari Clifford\u003C\/strong\u003E from the Department of Biomedical Engineering and interim chair of Biomedical Informatics at Emory University, and \u003Cstrong\u003ESantiago Grijalva\u003C\/strong\u003E, the Georgia Power Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDay one also featured a panel on priority areas composed of the hub\u0026rsquo;s co-PIs and priority area representatives that focused on an effort to launch new initiatives in the areas of greatest need. Breakout sessions, a student poster session, and a keynote speaker at dinner rounded out the first day of the all-hands meeting.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDay two of the all-hands meeting included working groups on cyberinfrastructure and social cybersecurity, as well as an industry panel with representatives from Anthem, Microsoft Research, Stanley Black \u0026amp; Decker, and others.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe successful event concluded with meetings for steering committee members, who serve as an advisory group for the hub and help disburse seed funding, as well as meetings amongst member representatives from the other three regional hubs funded by the National Science Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/southbigdatahub.org\/\u0022\u003ESouth Big Data Regional Innovation Hub (SBDH)\u003C\/a\u003E hosted its annual all-hands meeting last week on April 9-10 in the Technology Square Research Building on the Georgia Institute of Technology campus. Themed \u0026ldquo;Breaking Silos, Bridging Solutions, and Accelerating Partnerships,\u0026rdquo; the successful meeting was organized to build the community by bringing together the broad SBDH membership to share information on data and data science projects, tools, and discoveries.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"This year\u2019s successful meeting was themed \u201cBreaking Silos, Bridging Solutions, and Accelerating Partnerships.\u201d"}],"uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2019-04-18 17:46:41","changed_gmt":"2019-04-18 17:56:36","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-04-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-04-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"620629":{"id":"620629","type":"image","title":"The\u00a0South Big Data Regional Innovation Hub\u00a0leadership team met with leaders from the other three NSF-funded regional hubs during the 2019 all-hands meeting.","body":null,"created":"1555610155","gmt_created":"2019-04-18 17:55:55","changed":"1555616847","gmt_changed":"2019-04-18 19:47:27","alt":"The\u00a0South Big Data Regional Innovation Hub\u00a0leadership team met with leaders from the other three NSF-funded regional hubs during the 2019 all-hands meeting.","file":{"fid":"236322","name":"SBDH-meeting.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/SBDH-meeting.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/SBDH-meeting.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":531039,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/SBDH-meeting.jpg?itok=OeqJzIO5"}}},"media_ids":["620629"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/southbigdatahub.org\/","title":"South Big Data Regional Innovation Hub"},{"url":"http:\/\/ideas.gatech.edu","title":" Institute for Data Engineering and Science"}],"groups":[{"id":"545781","name":"Institute for Data Engineering and Science"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[{"id":"438","name":"data"},{"id":"15092","name":"big data"},{"id":"4449","name":"ideas"},{"id":"170447","name":"Institute for Data Engineering and Science"}],"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\u003EJosie Giles\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIDEaS Marketing Communications Manager\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:josie@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejosie@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}