Dr Jun Kong (a senior research scientist in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Emory University) will give a talk titled "Analysis and Integration of Large-scale Microscopy Imaging Data for Biomedical Translational Research" on Friday, March 7,  10:10 a.m. - 11:10 a.m at Room 328 Boyd GSRC. Refreshments will be served at 9:30 a.m. in Room 409, Boyd GSRC 

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Dr Metin Aktulga (Postdocotoral Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) will give a talk titled "Parallel Algorithms and Software Systems for Data-Intensive Scientific Computing" on Friday, February 28, 2014, 10:10 – 11:10 a.m at Room 328 Boyd GSRC. Refreshments will be served in Boyd Room 409 at 9:30 a.m.

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Rapidly growing importance of computational and data-centric methods in science and engineering, as well as the drastic transformations in computer architecture open up exciting opportunities for research in

Xiangnan Kong (Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago) will give a talk titled "Taming Big Data Variety: From Social Networks to Brain Networks" on Monday, February 24, 2014 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at Room 328 Boyd GSRC. Refreshments will be served on Boyd 409 at 3:00p.m.

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Over the past decade, we are experiencing big data challenges in various research domains. The data nowadays involve an increasing number of data types that need to be handled differently from conventional data records,

Dr. Lidan Wang (graduated from University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign) will give a talk titled "Efficient modeling-based approaches for large-scale mining and retrieval" on Monday, February 17, 2014 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at Room 208 Boyd GSRC. Refreshments will be served on the 3rd floor outside 306 at 3:00p.m.

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Prof. John Miller is the Program Chair for the 2014 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) to be held December 7-10 in Savannah, GA. WSC is the premier international forum for disseminating recent advances in the field of system simulation. Please visit the conference Web site http://wintersim.org/2014/ for additional information.

Congratulations to Dr. Roberto Perdisci for receiving the Franklin College M. G. Michael Award, which recognizes excellence in research. The primary purpose of the award is to encourage new, adventurous research ideas. Dr. Perdisci will use the award to start up a new research project on "global-scale malware download detection".

UGA’s Faculty of Robotics whose founding director is Prof. Doshi are working to significantly advance the fundamental science and engineering involved in creating the next generation of intelligent machines. A video of the Faculty’s activities is currently featured on the UGA Research Blog.

Position 1: Assistant Professor in Computer Science, starting in August 2014. To apply, please upload the required materials to Franklin college jobs.

Position 2: Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Cellular Biology, starting in August 2014. To apply, please upload the required materials to Franklin college jobs.

This talk will discuss the current state of the art in robotics and particularly focus on the directions that robotics is taking and the impact it will have on our society in the near future. Exciting robotics research will be briefly surveyed. The talk will additionally discuss the National Robotics Initiative whose goal is to accelerate the development and use of robots in the United States that work beside, or cooperatively with, people. This initiative was recently launched by President Obama and has significant participation from all major funding agencies.

Congratulations to Prof. Ramaswamy for receiving a grant from NSF for his project on building Cloud-based Big-Data techniques for federated Internet of Things.