{"635746":{"#nid":"635746","#data":{"type":"news","title":"2020 IDEaS Data Science Awards Announced","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIDEaS recently awarded a series of grants to stimulate the research efforts of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s brightest minds in data science and related disciplines. Faculty and student research programs targeted for IDEaS awards must demonstrate research goals that will be highly cross-disciplinary and emphasize how data science can assist in related research areas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Data Science Research Scholarships\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;program will support scholarships for the Spring 2020 semester and focus on Ph.D. student research that enables new collaborative research or adds a data science dimension to established research projects. Each scholarship will fund 50% of the cost of a GRA appointment, with the project PI funding the remaining 50%.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EData Science Research Scholarships\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E2020 Awards\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EJC Gumbart (Physics) \u0026amp; David Sherrill (Chemistry):\u0026nbsp;Force-field Development to Enable Simulations of Xeno-nucleic Acids\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EXiuwei Zhang (CSE) \u0026amp; Haesun Park (CSE):\u0026nbsp;Development of an Integrative Clustering Method for Single Cells\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EVince Calhoun (ECE) \u0026amp; Audrey Duarte (Psych):\u0026nbsp;The Chronnectomics of Memory\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EAnnalisa Bracco (EAS), Jie He (EAS) \u0026amp; Matt J. Kusner (University College London): Machine-learning Techniques for Cloud Modeling\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EToyya Pujol-Mitchell (ISYE), Nicoleta Serban (ISyE) \u0026amp; Constantine Dovrolis (CS):\u0026nbsp;Network Weight Prediction Using Node Attributes\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EXiaofan Liang (City \u0026amp; Reg Planning),\u0026nbsp;Clio Andris\u0026nbsp;(City \u0026amp; Reg Planning) \u0026amp; Diyi Yang (IC):\u0026nbsp;Advancing Metrics for Spatial Social Networks in the Era of Big Data\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EOmar Asensio (Public Policy):\u0026nbsp;Do Micromobility Options Reduce Traffic Congestion? Quasi-experimental Evidence from Uber Movement Data\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EConstantine Dovrolis (CS) \u0026amp; Kelly F. Ethun (Emory\/Yerkes):\u0026nbsp;Connections Between Social Behavior and Food Intake in\u0026nbsp;Rhesus Macaques\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Data Curation Awards\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;for faculty support the acquisition or curation of datasets critical to inform all-discipline research projects and drive goal attainment. These grants support a variety of projects, including human annotation of unlabeled data, developing software for collecting data, and developing domain-relevant formats for storing data.\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EDiyi Yang (IC) \u0026amp; Mai ElSherief (IC): Defining, Characterizing, and Detecting Implicit Discriminatory Speech Online\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EUmakishore Ramachandran (CS) \u0026amp; Zhuangdi Xu (CS): Generating Labeled Vehicle Tracking Dataset for Large-scale Geo-Distributed Camera Networks\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ESurya R. Kalidindi (ME\/CSE\/MSE) \u0026amp; Christopher Saldana (ME): Advanced Materials-Manufacturing Data Curation\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EAgata Rozga (IC), Thomas Ploetz (IC) \u0026amp; external: Annotation of Datasets from Severe Behavior Treatment Program at the Marcus Autism Center\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Data Science Partnership Awards\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;for faculty provide travel cost coverage for awardees who will visit companies, federal agencies, or government labs to initiate collaboration in data science foundations or data-driven discovery in any area. Funds may also be utilized to visit academic institutions that serve underrepresented groups, or for visits to non-research-intensive universities and colleges for broadening collaborative participation data science research.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EData Science Partnership 2020 Awards\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EDiyi Yang (IC): Allen Institute for AI and University of Washington\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EJosh Kacher (MSE): Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ERachel Cummings (ISyE): Georgetown University and U.S. Census Bureau\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EData Science Speaker Travel Awards\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Esupports visits to the Georgia Tech campus by external experts in the areas of data science foundations or data-driven discovery in any discipline. Funds may be used to host a guest speaker for the IDEaS seminar series, or to participate in another on-campus event, conference, or seminar series. 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