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MIDAS announces second round of Data Science Challenge Initiative awards, in health and social science

Five research projects — three in health and two in social science — have been awarded funding in the second round of the Michigan Institute for Data Science Challenge Initiative program. The projects will receive funding from MIDAS as part of the Data Science Initiative announced in fall 2015. The goal of the multiyear MIDAS ...

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Transportation projects with MIDAS funding featured in “Urban Transportation Monitor”

Research on connected and automated vehicles which recently received funding under the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) Challenge Initiative was featured in “The Urban Transportation Monitor.” The projects featured are led by Pascal Van Hentenryck (Industrial and Operations Engineering) and Carol Flannagan (U-M Transportation Research Institute). The article, available for download, begins on page 6. ...

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MIDAS Challenge Initiative Awards featured on Xconomy news website

The Xconomy.com website has featured transportation data science projects awarded funding under the first round of the MIDAS Challenge Initiatives. College of Engineering Prof. Pascal Van Hentenryck and Carol Flannagan of the U-M Transportation Research Institute were awarded $1.25 million each for projects that will apply data science methodologies to transportation. U-M Dearborn is contributing another ...

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MIDAS awards first round of challenge funding in transportation and learning analytics

Four research projects — two each in transportation and learning analytics — have been awarded funding in the first round of the Michigan Institute for Data Science Challenge Initiatives program. The projects will each receive $1.25 million dollars from MIDAS as part of the Data Science Initiative announced in fall 2015. U-M Dearborn also will ...