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MIDAS project on music and data science featured in Science Node and Michigan Daily

The MIDAS-supported project “Understanding How the Brain Processes Music through the Bach Trio Sonatas” was recently featured in Science Node and the Michigan Daily. The team also presented this project at Hill Auditorium on April 1 to a large and enthusiastic audience.  

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Study on bias in learning analytics earns Brooks Best Full Research Paper Award at LAK conference

A paper co-authored by University of Michigan School of Information research assistant professor Christopher Brooks received the Best Full Research Paper Award at the International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK) Conference in Tempe, Arizona. The award was announced on the final day of the conference, March 7, 2019. The paper, “Evaluating the Fairness of Predictive ...

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Women in HPC launches mentoring program

Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) has launched a year-round mentoring program, providing a framework for women to provide or receive mentorship in high performance computing. Read more about the program at https://womeninhpc.org/2019/03/mentoring-programme-2019/ WHPC was created with the vision to encourage women to participate in the HPC community by providing fellowship, education, and support to women ...

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Balzano wins NSF CAREER award for research on machine learning and big data involving physical, biological and social phenomena

Prof. Laura Balzano received an NSF CAREER award to support research that aims to improve the use of machine learning in big data problems involving elaborate physical, biological, and social phenomena. The project, called “Robust, Interpretable, and Efficient Unsupervised Learning with K-set Clustering,” is expected to have broad applicability in data science. Modern machine learning techniques aim ...

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MIDAS adds Associate Directors to boost campus engagement

The Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) has added two Associate Directors who will help increase outreach to all academic units at the University of Michigan. Pamela Davis-Kean, Professor of Psychology and Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, will be the new MIDAS Associate Director for Humanities and Social Sciences. Kayvan Najarian, Professor ...

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ARC Director Sharon Broude Geva profiled in HPCWire’s Women in Science issue

Dr. Sharon Broude Geva, Director of Advanced Research Computing at U-M, was one of four women profiled in HPCWire’s “Celebrating Women in Science” article. Read the piece at https://www.hpcwire.com/2019/02/11/women-science-leading-the-way-in-hpc/

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H.V. Jagadish appointed director of MIDAS

H.V. Jagadish has been appointed director of the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS), effective February 15, 2019. Jagadish, the Bernard A. Galler Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, was one of the initiators of an earlier concept of a data science initiative on campus. With support from ...

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Most CSCAR workshops will be free for the U-M community starting in January 2019

Beginning in January of 2019, most of CSCAR’s workshops will be offered free of charge to UM students, faculty, and staff. CSCAR is able to do this thanks to funding from UM’s Data Science Initiative.  Registration for CSCAR workshops is still required, and seats are limited. CSCAR requests that participants please cancel their registration if ...