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)

Prof. Lois Delcambre(Professor from Computer Science Department, Portland State University) will give a talk titled "Bringing Structure to (Educational) Repositories (using techniques from databases and the semantic web)" on Wednesday, March 26 from 2-3pm in Aderhold Hall G23 Deans conference room.

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Shannon Quinn (4th-year graduate student in the joint Carnegie Mellon-University of Pittsburgh Ph.D. program in computational biology) will give a talk titled "Distributed Spectral Graph Methods for Analyzing Large-Scale Unstructured Biomedical Data"  on Monday, March 17, 2014 from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m at Room 328 Boyd GSRC. Refreshments will be served at 3:00 p.m. in Room 409, Boyd GSRC

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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".