DSI Resident Faculty member, Jing Gao was a co-author on the study published in Nature Food that quantifies for the first time the impact that double-cropping had on helping Brazil achieve its national grain boom. Gao contributed to the team efforts by examining agriculture census-related data and identifying spatial patterns and changes that occurred over time in three key agricultural regions with regards to food production.

DSI Affiliated Faculty Saleem Ali, discusses how technology metals play a pivotal role in allowing remote work during the pandemic

DSI Affiliated Faculty, Juan Perilla uncovers the nucleotide entry mechanism, a key step in its replication, using HIV-1 viral capsid simulations on XSEDE-allocated Stampede2, Bridges, Darwin systems. This computational biophysics research, challenges the prevailing view of the viral capsid. The Darwin supercomputer, a new XSEDE-allocated resource was launched by DSI on December 2020. Dr. Perilla, received an immense amount of help from UD’s XSEDE Campus Champion, Anita Schwartz, a member of the DSI Infrastructure Working Group that maintains the DARWIN Compute and Storage System.

Congratulations to DSI Resident Faculty, Jing Gao on having her paper listed as one of the top 50 papers in earth and environmental science for 2020 with over 9000 downloads and Altimetric score of over 120. The paper entitled “Mapping global urban land for the 21st century with data-driven simulations and Shared Socioeconomic Pathways” has been published in Nature.com and discusses how data science drives new maps to predict the growth of cities over next century.

Cathy Wu, director of UD’s Data Science Institute, discusses the future of this fast-growing field and the work of the DSI Resident Faculty