News
Cracking the Code
Dion Vlachos, Director of the Delaware Energy Institute and the Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation and DSI Faculty Council Member is co-PI on a $3.69 million grant from the National Science Foundation. Dr. Vlachos along with other University of Delaware researchers are working to unlock new routes to sustainably develop materials from lignin.
New IEEE Fellows
Rudi Eigenmann, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering and DSI Faculty Council Member, DiCos Core Director and Chair, DSI Infrastructure Working Group has been named a Fellow of IEEE (formerly known as The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). Professor Eigenmann was named a Fellow for contributions to compilers for high-performance computing.
Mapping Soil Moisture in High Definition
Rodrigo Vargas, Associate Professor of Ecosystem Ecology and Environmental Change and DSI Faculty Council Member, and doctoral student Mario Guevara have developed a new, more accurate way to map predicted soil moisture, even in areas where no data have been available.
Switching Cereals
DSI Resident Faculty and Assistant Professor in the departments of Geography & Spatial Sciences and Plant & Soil Sciences, Kyle Davis, led a study that shows how India can improve nutrition, climate resilience, and the environment by diversifying its crop production.
Bringing It Down To Earth
Two unlikely UD collaborators — an engineer and a journalist — teamed up to develop a program that helps UD students explain their research in terms mere mortals might understand. The five-part “Words For Nerds” seminar was developed by Joshua Zide, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and DSI Affiliated Faculty, Dawn Fallik, Associate Professor of English, to give graduate students training and practice in the art of explaining complex ideas to street-level audiences.
Mapping Data
Graduate student Abdul Qadir puts love of geography to use through data science. Qadir is a master’s student in data science program and a research assistant for Pinki Mondal, assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences, and DSI resident faculty.
Machine Learning in Financial Services Conference
The financial services industry is using machine learning to revolutionize its processes and rapidly improve financial outcomes, and its potential seems limitless. That’s why the University of Delaware’s Institute for Financial Services Analytics (IFSA) brought together leading minds in industry and academia for its 2019 conference “Machine Learning in Financial Services,” hoping to create a dialogue and in which both can learn from each other and explore this potential.
CEMA Recognized by State
UD’s Center for Environmental Monitoring and Analysis (CEMA) proclaimed official repository for weather and climatological observations.
DSI Faculty Council member, Dan Leathers, is CEMA’s Director.
Super Computing
DSI Affiliated Faculty, Sunita Chandrasekaran, and team has been chosen to develop apps for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s newest exascale computer. Just eight teams of scientists have been selected to develop applications for the Frontier supercomputer.
Shedding Light on Dark Matter
An interdisciplinary research team co-led by DSI Affiliated Faculty, Hagit Shatkay, has received a $1 million, two-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), to develop computational methods to accelerate data-intensive discovery in astroparticle physics — an important step toward understanding dark matter.