News
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.
New UD Program in Hospitality Analytics
There are few industries where data analytics play as important a role in a customer’s overall experience as hospitality. By tracking and analyzing consumer behavior and preferences, hotels and restaurants can create a more personalized experience. University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics is launching the first doctoral program of its kind in the world, a four-year, 54 credit-hour Ph.D. in hospitality business analytics.
Help at Your Fingertips
A new smartphone app puts a network of information and support about opioid and other substance use disorders into the hands of users, their loved ones and health care providers. The app, Help Near and Now (or HeNN), was developed by a multidisciplinary team at the University of Delaware, including DSI Director, Cathy Wu, and DSI Affiliated Faculty, Hui Fang, along with industry partners.
North America’s Carbon Cycle
Data Science Institute Affiliated Faculty, Rodrigo Vargas, and more than 200 experts from the United States, Canada and Mexico recently unveiled Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2), a state-of-the-art assessment of carbon cycle science across North America and its connection with climate and society.
