The Center for Visual and Decision Informatics, a leader in big data science and analytics, is poised to become the largest center of its kind in the U.S. after recently receiving approval for a second round of National Science Foundation funding.
It works with government, industry and academia to develop next-generation tools and techniques that help decision makers improve how they analyze and interpret large volumes of data.
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小蝌蚪APP淭hese are exceptional numbers of universities and industry partners working together at an NSF-funded center producing new knowledge in data science and generating a higher than usual number of research dollars,小蝌蚪APP said Dr. Vijay Raghavan, CVDI director and Alfred and Helen Lamson Professor of Computer Science at UL Lafayette. 小蝌蚪APP淭his center will provide more industry-relevant research opportunities for students and faculty at UL Lafayette and all the partner universities.小蝌蚪APP
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CVDI membership gives companies, organizations and government agencies access to leading edge developments in visual and decision informatics. Members include Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Capital One, CA Technologies, CGI, Clarivate Analytics, Schumacher Clinical Partners, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Leidos, Louisiana Health Care Quality Forum, Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise, M-Brain, Mobileware, Nokia Networks, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Softheon, Tieto, UANGEL, and Northrop Grumman Technology Services.
Two major technological breakthroughs by CVDI members are an influenza forecasting model developed by Dr. Raju Gottumukkala, director of research at UL Lafayette小蝌蚪APP檚 Informatics Research Institute, and a hotspot prediction technique developed by Dr. Jian Chen, GIS applications manager at UL Lafayette小蝌蚪APP檚 Informatics Research Institute.
Over the next five years, CVDI is projected to complete over 70 research projects and produce hundreds of publications in the area of big data, creating new knowledge in visual analytics, predictive analytics, machine learning and interactive visualization.
Dr. Thyaga Nandagopal, NSF program manager for CVDI, said the IUCRC program 小蝌蚪APP減rovides a successful template for fostering effective partnerships between industry and university in pre-competitive research topics across multiple technology domains, as evident in the over 60 active IUCRCs around the country today. CVDI is an exemplary IUCRC in its scale and management practices and will continue its mission of tackling the grand challenges in data analytics and visualization over the next five years.小蝌蚪APP
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