NSF BRAIN (June 5-6) and AccelNet (June 6-8) meetings at UMBC UMBC will host the in-person annual meeting of the NSF IUCRC BRAIN Industry Advisory Board on June 5-6. Its members include universities leading cutting-edge research in neurotechnologies by partnering with industry. This will be followed by the NSF AccelNet international network of networks meeting (June 6-8) to discuss research collaboration initiatives, including brain-computer interfaces, tools, and infrastructure for understanding and promoting brain health and next-generation AI (large brain models).

Register and get more information, including the agendas, here.
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UMBC Professors Ansu Chatterjee, Karuna Joshi, and Animikh Biswas received an NSF award to study the use of digital twins to diagnose, treat, and increase the understanding of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and multiple sclerosis. 

Digital twin models can leverage the exponential growth of biomedical data and AI and data science techniques and provide new insights into these diseases and their treatment and prevention. The three-year award, Aspects of Digital Twin Studies for Neuroimages, will provide almost $900k in funding. 

Read more about this award on NSF and UMBC News.
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UMBC Information Systems Professor Lujie Karen Chen recently won an NSF CAREER award that puts students at the center of learning analytics—not just as subjects who supply data, but also as the designers of analytical tools and users of the insights they provide. Her five-year project, Teaching to Empower with Learning Analytics for College Students by College Students, will explore an innovative approach to empower students to become productive users and creators of learning analytics, tools that use educational data to enhance learning.

Chen’s Lab for Informatics for Human Flourishing is dedicated to using data to improve people’s lives. Education is a key pathway to advance human flourishing, Chen says, and she looks forward to improving student learning experiences and outcomes through her CAREER award project.

Read more about Professor Chen, her research and the NSF award in this UMBC News article. 

UMBC Center for AI ]]> UMBC Information Systems Professor Lujie Karen Chen recently won an NSF CAREER award that puts students at the center of learning analytics—not just as subjects who supply data, but also as the... https://umbc.edu/stories/karen-chen-nsf-career-award-student-data/ https://beta.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/142914/guest@my.umbc.edu/fd96a813dbba3f93018660ff17eb3298/api/pixel ai career education learning nsf UMBC AI https://beta.my.umbc.edu/groups/umbc-ai https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/002/081/cfb27ebe008c2636486089a759ea5c36/xsmall.png?1691095779 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/002/081/cfb27ebe008c2636486089a759ea5c36/original.png?1691095779 https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/002/081/cfb27ebe008c2636486089a759ea5c36/xxlarge.png?1691095779 https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/002/081/cfb27ebe008c2636486089a759ea5c36/xlarge.png?1691095779 https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/002/081/cfb27ebe008c2636486089a759ea5c36/large.png?1691095779 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/002/081/cfb27ebe008c2636486089a759ea5c36/medium.png?1691095779 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/002/081/cfb27ebe008c2636486089a759ea5c36/small.png?1691095779 https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/002/081/cfb27ebe008c2636486089a759ea5c36/xsmall.png?1691095779 https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/002/081/cfb27ebe008c2636486089a759ea5c36/xxsmall.png?1691095779 UMBC AI 2 0 true Wed, 24 Jul 2024 11:37:49 -0400 Wed, 24 Jul 2024 11:44:56 -0400 Prof. Vinjamuri receives NSF IUCRC Phase II award Supports UMBC's partnership in the BRAIN Center

UMBC CSEE Professor Ramana Vinjamuri received a new NSF IUCRC Phase II award to support participation as a partner in BRAIN, the Building Reliable Advances and Innovations in Neurotechnologies Industry-University Cooperative Research Center.

BRAIN's overall goal is to develop and validate new technologies that address the needs of physically and neurologically impaired individuals and those of the growing aging population. 

Research in Dr. Vinjamuri's lab complements existing strengths in other BRAIN sites and expands research into new areas, including artificial intelligence, neural imaging and stimulation, cyber-human systems, human-centered computing, neural signal processing, and virtual/augmented/mixed reality.

NSF funds Industry–University Cooperative Research Centers like BRAIN to conduct joint research with innovative industry partners.
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The NSF launched the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Pilot on January 25. Its goal is to connect U.S. researchers and educators to computational, data, and training resources needed to advance AI research and research that employs AI. Federal agencies are collaborating with partners to implement the Pilot as a preparatory step toward an eventual full NAIRR implementation.

The NAIRR effort currently has several items relevant to the AI community:
  • Survey on Researcher and Educator Use Cases for the NAIRR. NSF invites researchers, faculty, and both graduate and undergraduate students who are struggling to access GPUs, data resources, know-how, and expertise to fill out this survey, which will inform directions for the pilot and demonstrate the need for the full NAIRR.   
  • The first open call for NAIRR Pilot resources can be found on the nairrpilot.org. It targets a few NSF and DOE high-performance computing systems and testbeds and is focused on supporting safe, secure, and trustworthy AI research.
  • A webinar on the NAIRR Pilot will be held on Wednesday, February 21 at 3:00-4:30pm ET via zoom. The webinar will include a Q&A period with attendees.
Here are additional information and links:
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UMBC Professor Cynthia Matuszek is the PI on a new award from the National Science Foundation to support the 2024 joint Principal Investigator Meeting for NSF's two research programs on robotics and related areas, National Robotics Initiative (NRI) and Foundational Research in Robotics (FRR). Professor Jie Yin from North Carolina State University is the grant Co-Principal investigator. Dr. Matuszek will chair the meeting, which will take place in downtown Baltimore, Maryland, on 28-30 April 2024. 

The meeting will serve as a conference bringing together a community of robotics researchers whose work is specifically relevant to the NRI and FRR programs. The agenda includes talks from selected projects, poster sessions, workshops, panel discussions, multiple keynote talks, a diversity-focused event, and Federal agency program updates from leaders in the research community. This meeting will also support the participation of a cohort of potential future proposers to the FRR program. 

The annual PI Meeting for the NSF FRR and NRI research communities enables investigators to meet and share their research and best practices, discuss new research opportunities, explore new ideas and partnerships, and interact with Federal agency representatives, industry, and other stakeholders interested in NSF robotics research.

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Harnessing AI to improve healthcare: Sanjay Purushotham wins $590,000+ NSF CAREER award

Today, a plethora of technologies, from image recognition tools to chatbots, are powered by machine learning. A key component to the technique's success is data -- and lots of it. For doctors and hospitals who hope to use machine learning to improve healthcare, that need for copious data presents a problem: medical data is protected by privacy laws and often exists in incomplete or diverse forms -- from doctor's notes to medical scans -- that make it difficult for machine learning models to use it effectively.

"Using data better to aid medical decisions is a grand challenge of the 21st century," says Sanjay Purushotham, an assistant professor in information systems at UMBC. "We need innovations in existing techniques to take full advantage of artificial intelligence in healthcare."

Together with his students, Purushotham is tackling that challenge. He recently received a prestigious NSF CAREER award to support his team's efforts to develop new ways to train health-focused machine learning models. 

Purushotham has been contributing his expertise in computer science to collaborations with doctors and hospitals for almost ten years. The NSF CAREER award will help Purushotham further that research in a new direction, and ultimately, his team hopes their work will improve medical treatments and reduce costs, benefiting patients around the world

Read more about his research in this UMBC News article. 
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