Crowdfunding has emerged as the “next big thing” in entrepreneurial financing. It can provide seed capital for start-up companies, create job opportunities and revive lost business ventures. The concept of crowdfunding is analogous to crowdsourcing or micro-financing, where the seed capital is collected by soliciting small amounts of money from a large group of people, […]

Hospitalizations account for more than 30 percent of the two trillion annual cost of healthcare in the United States. Experts estimate that as many as 20 percent of all hospital admissions occur within 30 days of a previous discharge. Such rehospitalizations are not only expensive but potentially harmful.  Most importantly, they are often preventable. Providing special care […]

Various advancements in data acquisition and storage technologies have allowed different disciplines to attain the ability to not only accumulate a wide variety of data but also to monitor observations over longer time periods. In many practical domains, the primary objective of monitoring these observations is to better understand and estimate the time point at which […]

Students at the Discovery Analytics Center have headed off to summer jobs and internships from coast to coast. Following is a good example of the kind of real world experience they are getting.

B. Aditya Prakash, an assistant professor of computer science in the College of Engineering, is being celebrated as one of 10 young stars in the field of artificial intelligence by IEEE Intelligent Systems. The technical magazine named Prakash, who is also a faculty member at the Discovery Analytics Center, to the prestigious AI’s 10 to Watch list for his contributions to understanding, reasoning, […]

Virginia Tech graduates celebrating their achievements this spring include two    Ph.D. students and three master’s students at the Discovery Analytics Center. Two Ph.D. students and one master’s student are planning to celebrate the completion of their degrees during the summer.