Author: Scott

$500K NSF Grant Awarded to Dr. Bing Wang, UConn Health Center

Dr. Bing Wang, an associate professor of Computer Science & Engineering, was awarded a grant for close to $500,000 for her project proposed to the National Science Foundation, “Campus Cyberinfrastructure – Network Infrastructure and Engineering Program (CC-NIE), Network Infrastructure: Enabling Data-Intensive Research at the University of Connecticut through Science Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)”. A demilitarized zone, […]

Abhishek Jain – Computing on Private Data

Abhishek Jain Date: March 3, 2014 Time: 11-12amPlace: ITEB 336 Computing on Private Data Abstract Today, end users generate large volumes of private data, some of which may be stored on the cloud in an encrypted form. The need to perform computation on this data to extract meaningful information has become ubiquitous. The following fundamental […]

Barna Saha – Clean Data and Unlimited Resources: A Probabilistic Journey to a Fantasyland

Barna Saha Date: March 6, 2014 Time: 1 – 2pmPlace: ITEB 336 Clean Data and Unlimited Resources: A Probabilistic Journey to a Fantasyland Abstract Over the last decade, while the quantity of digital data skyrocketed, the quality of data remained far from perfect. Use of automated tools and fallible humans for data collection and integration, […]

Beyond experts and engineering: exploiting data for automated control

Martha WhitePh.D. candidateUniversity of Alberta Date: February 21, 2014 Time: 1pm – 2pmPlace: ITEB 336Talk Title: Beyond experts and engineering: exploiting data for automated control Abstract: There are many opportunities to automate real-world control problems, based on the increase of data capture and storage, coupled with recent advances in machine learning. For example, in control of wind […]