National Science Foundation awarded a grant on "SemGrid: Semantic Discovery on Adaptive Services Grid," PI: Amit Sheth, Co-PIs: I.B. Arpinar, K. Kochut, J.A. Miller, Award # IIS 0545243, October 15, 2005 - December 31, 2007, $100,000.

LSDIS lab received $32,000 cash gift from the Athens Heart Center and welcomes it as our newest institutional sponsor. ; Dr.Subodh Agrawal 's vision and insight that LSDIS's research in the Semantic Web and ontology-driven integration/analysis can be of significant value to healthcare, including cardiology practices, gets us energized to seek more impact of our research.

LSDIS lab is awarded phase II of project "An Ontological Approach to Financial Analysis & Monitoring" (Amit Sheth, PI; Budak Arpinar, Co-PI). UGA component of this phase award from ARDA (with CTA, Inc. as a partner) is $162,500. Expected total award amount if phase III is awarded is $325,000. Further details from SemDisproject web site.

Dr. Liming Cai has recently been awarded an NIH research grant on his computational biology project "Searching Genomes for Non-Coding RNAs by Their Structure" (co-PIs: Russell Malmberg of Plant Biology and Michael McEachern of Genetics at UGA) with the amount of $232,552 for the first year and total amount of $716,352 for three years.

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

THINC lab's ontology alignment tool, Optima+, developed by doctoral student Uthayasanker Thayasivam and Prof. Doshi is tied second in a key track at the annual ontology alignment competition, OAEI 2012, among 21 tools.

Doctoral student, Aryabrata Basu and Prof. Johnsen (Computer Systems Engg.) won the best poster award at the 2013 IEEE 3DUI conference.

Celebrations! Team SecDawgs led by Prof. Li and composed of 12 students from the CS dept. places third in an international internet security competition, iCTF, among 100 teams.

MS student, Jennifer Rouan, wins a prestigious Anita Borg memorial scholarship from Google. Jennifer is a research assistant at the CUDA teaching center under the supervision of Prof. Taha. Congratulations!

Profs. Kang Li (PI) and L. Ramaswamy (Co-PI) received a three year grant from NSF for a project titled "Adaptive Attacks and Defenses in Denial of Information". The research will be performed in collaboration with Georgia Tech.