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NSF Scholarship for Service Fellowships in Security
nformatics Core Faculty Dr. Dan Lin received $3.6M from the National Science Foundation. This project is to promote cybersecurity research and education. The program offers scholarships which fully cover tuition and fees, provides $34,000 annual stipend and additional $9,000 funding for equipment, travel and professional development. In total, the program will train 16 students with a 3-year
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Dr. DeSouza Appointed to Associate Editor Position for IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Gui DeSouza, MUIDSI core faculty member and co-leader of the Data-Driven Ag Initiative, has been appointed as an associate editor to the new journal IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers plans to launch the journal next month. It’s a joint publication among several IEEE societies, with IEEE’s Computational Intelligence Society
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MUIDSI and MUIDSI Graduate Student Organization to Host Virtual Symposium August 20th-21st
Join us on August 20th-21st as we host our annual Data Science and Informatics Symposium online via Zoom. This year we welcome four keynote speakers, a keynote panel, six faculty research talks, four student presentations, a start-up panel, and a COVID-19 panel featuring the latest contributions from MU faculty and students. For a full schedule
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Evaluating the effectiveness of transfer-learning with DeepVariant
Presenter:Jenna Kalleberg
Date:12-10-2020
Time:4:00PM-4:30PM
Location:Zoom
Genomic data has become ubiquitous for bioinformaticians; however, successfully inferring biological meaning depends upon the sensitive prediction of differences between genomes. The most popular method to infer short sequence variants is the Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK). While GATK provides rigorous guidelines, the methods require knowledge-intensive refinement as software and sequencing technologies advance. A recent advancement
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Tool Development for Analyzing Arrhythmias in Fast Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Scans
Presenter:Zhijian Luan
Date:12-10-2020
Time:3:30PM-4:00PM
Location:Zoom
Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) scanning provides a method to diagnose cardiac disease. For obtaining an effective image, the standard procedure of CMR requires patients to hold their breath during the scanning, but it is difficult for frail patients in clinic. Furthermore, standard CMR imaging depends upon averaging together regular cardiac cycles, which is disrupted by
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Using Big Data to Identify Possible External Risk Factors for Poorly Understood Cancers
Presenter:Julie Jaddoo
Date:12-02-2020
Time:2:00PM-3:00PM
Location:Zoom
Worldwide, cancer is the second leading cause of death (Cancer, 2012). There were 17 million new cases and 9.6 million cancer deaths worldwide in 2018, including approximately 1.7 million new U.S. cases and 600,000 U.S. cancer deaths (Cancer Facts & Figures 2018 | American Cancer Society, 2018; Worldwide Cancer Statistics, 2019). The worldwide incidence of cancer is expected to increase
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