Congratulations to Prof. Ramaswamy, Prof. Mishra (Department of Geography, UGA) and Prof. Bhandarkar for receiving a grant from the NSF for building a multi-cloud infrastructure for effective monitoring of inland waters and coastal wetlands. This project will seamlessly integrate community observations, remote sensing measurements, and advanced multimedia analytics for sustainable management of salt marshes and inland waters.

Congratulations to Prof. Liu for receiving a 3-year grant from the NSF cognitive neuroscience program to explore the reciprocal functional architecture of the human brain based on fMRI data. This project will design and apply novel sparse representation methods for whole-brain fMRI signals for the purpose of discovering novel functional brain architectures.

Prof. Thiab Taha is the General Chair and Conference Coordinator of the "The NINTH IMACS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on NONLINEAR EVOLUTION

EQUATIONS AND WAVE PHENOMENA: COMPUTATION AND THEORY" that will be held at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA, April 01-04, 2015. For the latest information and AWARDS for students, please see the conference website: waves2015.uga.edu

The University of Georgia, through the efforts of Professor Thiab Taha,  has been selected by NVIDIA as a 2014  CUDA Research Center on the vision, quality, and impact of research leveraging CUDA technology. For more information on the center, please see: cuda.uga.edu

Prof. Doshi is a Co-PI on a grant awarded through UGA's inaugural Interdisicplinary Proposal Development Grant Program. Only six teams out of about 50 were funded.

Congratulations to Dr. Tianming Liu for receiving the "Creative Research Medal" Award at the 35th. Annual Research Awards Banquet.

CS doctoral student, Aryabrata Basu, and adjunct faculty, Prof. Kyle Johnsen, are co-authors on a paper on using virtual reality for childhood obesity that won a best paper award at IEEE Virtual Reality conference.

The department held its annual Research Day on April 4, which featured two keynote talks by Prof. Munindar Singh of NC State and Prof. Calton Pu of GA Tech, along with 19 research posters.

Time: 4:00 – 7:30 pm, April 4th 2014 (Friday)

Place: Kellogg Concourse (2nd floor) in the Georgia Center

The program is as follows:

• Introduction – MC: C. Neasbitt (4:00 – 4:05)

• Welcome Speech – T. Taha (4:05 – 4:10)

• 1st keynote – M. Singh (4:10 – 5:00)

• Break (5:00 – 5:10)

• 2nd keynote – C. Pu (5:10 – 6:00)

• Poster session & competition & dinner (6:00 - 7:30)