News
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.
Virtual Reality for Physical Therapy
DSI Resident Faculty, Roghayeh (Leila) Barmaki was part of a team that recently won the Best Virtual Reality Prize at the Reality Virtually Hackathon, held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab from Jan. 17 to 21, 2019.
Engineering’s Gonzalo Arce Honored for Research
Gonzalo Arce, Charles Black Evans Professor in the University of Delaware’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and DSI Affiliated Faculty, has been named a Fellow of SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics.
UD’s ‘Fighting Astrophysicist’ Named a TED Fellow
Federica Bianco, DSI Resident Faculty member who joined UD’s faculty last year in the cluster hire for DSI, moonlights as a professional boxer – bantamweight division. Now her outside-the-box approach to life and learning and interdisciplinary adventure has caught the imagination of the TED Fellows program, which she has been selected to join – one of only 20 fellows worldwide in the 2019 class. She is the first UD faculty member to be named a TED Fellow.
Intellectual Intersection
“One of the primary missions of a major research university like UD is to be an intellectual intersection — a hub of discovery that combines and amplifies the work of multiple disciplines,” President Assanis says. “The big challenges are incredibly complex, so they have to be addressed from many different angles.” The Data Science Institute is one of the biggest initiatives.
Highly Cited Researcher
DSI Director, Cathy Wu, was recently named to the Clarivate Analytics list of Highly Cited Researchers for 2018. This list identifies scholars whose publications are in the top 1% for citations by other researchers via Web of Science, a scientific citation indexing service. Dr. Wu has made the Highly Cited Researchers list for the fifth year in a row in the field of biology and biochemistry.
A ‘Momentous Day’ for University of Delaware Research
The University of Delaware on Tuesday, Sept. 4, celebrated the addition of a powerful new muscle in its research enterprise, launching its Data Science Institute before a full house in Gore Recital Hall. The new institute links faculty and students from all of UD’s seven colleges, including health sciences, physical sciences, environmental sciences, behavioral and social sciences and public policy.
