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Virginia Tech graduate students use a display wall in the Discovery Analytics Center to view epidemiological simulations of disease outbreaks in a city, one of the many big data applications that will be studied in the Big Data Innovation Hub.[/caption] Chang-Tien Lu, associate professor of computer science and associate director of DAC is leading Virginia Tech as it takes part in a multi-university effort to apply big data solutions to regional challenges. Chang-Tien will be playing a vital role in the university's broad-base collaboration on the project, an initiative supported by the National Science Foundation that brings together research universities across the south to develop a Big Data Regional Innovation Hub.  Read more about Chang-Tien's part in this project

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