Lenwood Heath, a professor of computer science and faculty member of DAC is of a part group of faculty members at Virginia Tech awarded a five-year $3.6 million Partnerships in International Research and Education (PIRE) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) that is aimed at mitigating the global threat of antibiotic resistance spread through […]

The goal of this research is to combine two areas, Visual Analytics and Bayesian Statistics. Currently, visualizations display inflexible deterministic transformations of data that inherently separate data visualization from visual synthesis. Analysts cannot manipulate displays to inject domain-specific knowledge to formally assess the merger of their expert judgment with the data. However, by changing the […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 “to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense…” With an annual budget of $7.3 billion (FY 2015), they are the funding source for approximately 24 percent of all federally supported […]

DAC will create and administer a new interdisciplinary Ph.D. certificate program called UrbComp, which is set to launch in spring 2016.  The UrbComp Ph.D. certificate is focused on big data and urbanization through a $3 grant over five years from the National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Program. UrbComp will be open to students from both the […]

Marjan Momtazpour will present her PhD proposal on “Knowledge Discovery for Sustainable Urban Mobility”. All are invited. Time: 2pm-4pm ET.