Four town hall meetings were held on March 9, March 10, March 30 and May 2 regarding the MIDAS Round 2 Funding Opportunities. The following presentations were made:
About the MIDAS Challenge Solicitation
- Introduction to MIDAS Health Sciences RFPs (03/09) – Brian Athey & Al Hero, MIDAS Co-Directors, Eric Michielssen, AVP Advanced Research Computing
- Introduction to MIDAS Social Sciences RFPs (03/10) – Brian Athey & Al Hero, MIDAS Co-Directors, Eric Michielssen, AVP Advanced Research Computing
- Introduction to MIDAS Health Sciences RFPs (03/30) – Brian Athey & Al Hero, MIDAS Co-Directors, Eric Michielssen, AVP Advanced Research Computing
- Introduction to MIDAS Social Sciences RFPs (05/02) – Brian Athey & Al Hero, MIDAS Co-Directors, Eric Michielssen, AVP Advanced Research Computing
Engaging Industry Partners
- Business Engagement Center for Facilitating Industry Relationships (03/30, 05/02) – Amy Klinke, Director, BEC
Available Data Science Services and Infrastructure
- Data Science Services (03/09, 03/10, 03/30, 05/02) – Kerby Shedden, Director, Consulting for Statistics, Computing, and Analytics Research
- Data Science Infrastructure for Sensitive Data (03/09, 05/02) – Brock Palen, Director, Advanced Research Computing Technology Services
- Data Science Infrastructure for Sensitive Data (Armis and Glovebox) (03/10) – Brock Palen, Director, Advanced Research Computing Technology Services
- Data Science Infrastructure (03/30) – Todd Raeker, Research Technology Consultant, Advanced Research Computing Technology Services
Available Data Sets
- Health Care Data Sets at the UMHS (03/09) – Mary Hill, Director, COMPASS; Erin Kaleba, Director, Data Office
- Health Care Data Sets & Information Support Services at the UMHS (03/30) – Andrew Rosenberg, CIO UMHS
Health Sciences
- Meeting the Challenge for Semantically-Based Provenance Metadata Tools (03/30) – Marcy Harris, Assoc Professor, Nursing
- Learning Health Research Use Cases Involving Data Science (03/30) – Allen Flynn, Research Analyst, Learning Health System
Social Sciences
- Example of Social Science Projects (03/10) – George Alter, Director, ICPSR
- Gender, Epigenetics & Addiction (05/02) – Jill Becker, Professor, Psychology and MBNI
- When can Twitter content really be used for social statistics? (05/02) – Fred Conrad, Program Director, Survey Research Center
- Psychology and Developmental Science (05/02) – Pam Davis-Kean, Professor, Psychology
- Data Science for Mobile Health (05/02) – Susan Murphy, Professor, Statistics and Psychiatry
- Intermedia Agenda Setting in a Political Campaign: A Pilot Study – (05/02) – Mike Traugott, Professor Emeritus, Communication Studies and Political Science
Methodology
- Machine Learning Approaches for Improving Clinical Care (03/30) – Jenna Wiens, Asst Professor, COE-EECS
- Natural Language Processing for the Health Sciences (03/30) – Drago Radev, Professor, SI & COE-EECS
- Analyzing Possible Human Trafficking Activity Using Large-Scale Information Extraction (05/02) – Mike Cafarella, Asst Professor, COE-EECS
- Natural Language Processing for Social Sciences (05/02) – Rada Mihalcea, Professor, COE-EECS
- The Foreseer: Big Data Analytics on Social Media Streams (05/02) – Zhe Zhao, PhD Candidate, COE-EECS
