News
Technology Metals at Home
DSI’s Affiliated Faculty, Saleem Ali discusses how technology metals play a pivotal role in allowing remote work during the pandemic.
Getting to the Core of HIV Replication
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.
Environmental Monitoring
DSI Director Cathy Wu along with DSI Faculty Council member Xiao-Hai Yan serve as the science principal investigators on a project funded by NASA EPSCoR where researchers at the UD are developing a remote sensing big data center in Delaware for cutting-edge coastal and environmental change research. Interdisciplinary co-investigators include: DSI Faculty Council members Dan Leathers and Rodrigo Vargas, DSI Resident Faculty Pinki Mondal, DSI Affiliated Faculty Tracy DeLiberty and UD Faculty A.R. Siders.
Illicit Mineral Trade
Indian Agriculture
Pinki Mondal, DSI Resident Faculty and Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences, says groundwater depletion could reduce winter cropped acreage significantly in years ahead.
Data Science Leader
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
New data platform dedicated to Central Indian landscape launched
DSI Resident Faculty and Assistant Professor of Geography and Spatial Sciences, Pinki Mondal, has created a new open data platform (https://www.centralindia-datacollab.org/) supported by her DSI seed grant. She shares some details below.
Programming the Soon-to-be World’s Fastest Supercomputer
DSI Affiliated Faculty and Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Sciences, Sunita Chandrasekaran, is leading an elite international team in designing an application for the world’s fastest supercomputer, set to come online in the United States in 2021.
Read More
Studying the Virus in Real Time
DSI Affiliated Faculty, Hagit Shatkay’s Intro to Bioinformatics and Computational Biology course is teaching students how important computational methods can be in the face of a pandemic.
Targeting Drug-Resistant Cancers
DSI Affiliated Faculty, Abhyudai Singh and collaborators find vulnerable stages in stubborn cancer cells using mathematical modeling
