
Sep. 29, 2020
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 (CIS) taking the lead. To read more about the journal and Dr. DeSouza’s appointment, click here.

Aug. 14, 2020
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 click here. For free registration, please visit our Eventbrite site.

Aug. 14, 2020
Three NSF RAPID grants led by MUIDSI Core Faculty to Tackle COVID-19 Pandemic
MUIDSI core faculty are leading the following ongoing NSF RAPID projects for COVID-19: Dr. Steven Van Doren is the sole PI for “RAPID: Structure of Membrane-Bound Fusion Peptide of SARS-CoV-2 Required for Infection.” Dr. Praveen Rao is the PI for “RAPID: Democratizing Genome Sequence Analysis for COVID-19 Using CloudLab” with Co-PIs Drs. Wesley Warren, Peter Tonellato, Eduardo J. Simoes, and Deepthi Rao. Dr. Chi-Ren Shyu is the PI for “RAPID: Geospatially-Enabled Deep Analytics for Real-time Mitigation and Response to COVID-19 Outbreak for American Rural Populations” with Co-PIs Drs. Mirna Becevic,…

Oct. 22, 2019
MUIDSI Core Faculty Member, Dr. Laura Schopp, PIs Grant Helping Rural Areas
Dr. Laura Schopp, professor and chair of health psychology, received a $1.2 million grant from the US Health Resources and Services Administration to help fight the opioid epidemic. Read more……

Oct. 22, 2019
MUIDSI Core Faculty Member Blake Meyers Named Editor-in-Chief of “The Plant Cell”
Rockville, Maryland, October 21, 2019 – The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) is pleased to announce the appointment of Blake C. Meyers to serve as editor-in-chief of The Plant Cell beginning January 1, 2020. Read More…

July 25, 2019
Graduate Research Assistantship in Biomedical Imaging Informatics (available Aug. 2019):
Many heart patients have not benefitted from MR scans due to technical limitations. A Ph.D. student is sought to further develop the new TRENDimaging software package to analyze complex and irregular heart motions. This will support wider application of ultrafast cardiac MR scans. The position is supported by a new grant from the American Heart Association. More information about the research group is available at: https://cafnrfaculty.missouri.edu/vandoren/ Those with background or interests in scientific computing, biomedical imaging, software engineering, and / or statistical approaches of data science are invited to submit a resume with contact information for two to three…

July 10, 2019
Dr. Eileen Avery takes the helm as the new Executive Director of the University of Missouri Research Data Center (MU RDC) and Population, Education, and Health Center (PEHC).

July 10, 2019
Dr. J. Chris Pires led a multi-institutional team to study vegetable family tree for better food and published in Nature Communications
Dr. Chris Pires led a multi-institutional team to study vegetable family tree for better food and published in Nature Communications. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190708154106.htm…

April 5, 2019
TEACHING FACULTY POSITION OPEN – Join an award-winning, on-line, professional master’s program teaching Data Science and Analytics to working professionals from all around the US
The University of Missouri (MU) Informatics Institute is accepting applications for position of Assistant or Associate Teaching Professor of the Data Science and Analytics (DSA) program. We are looking for data scientists with rich industry experience to work in a vibrant environment to educate working professionals to enter the data science workforce. In today’s information-centric world, data are becoming increasingly important for the success of businesses in every industry. The demand for data scientist in the American workforce is expected to continue to grow at a healthy pace for the next ten years and so is the MU Data Science…