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<div align="center"><big><b><big>Big Data/Data Science Programs at
NSF</big></b></big><br>
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<big>Dr. Chaitan Baru<br>
Senior Advisor for Data Science, NSF CISE Directorate</big><br>
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<big>10:00-11:00am Friday 12 February 2016, ITE 459, UMBC</big><br>
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This talk will provide an overview of current programs and
activities related to Big Data and Data Science at NSF, and also
highlight NSF's inter-agency engagements in this topic area. The
talk will also discuss future directions for Data Science research,
education, and infrastructure. Considering that Data Science is a
rapidly emerging, evolving field and discipline, ample time will be
provided for Q&A and discussions about where the field ought to
be going, given what we know today.<br>
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Dr. Chaitan Baru is currently a senior advisor for data science in
the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate at
the National Science Foundation. He is a Distinguished Scientist and
Associate Director of Data Initiatives at the San Diego
Supercomputer Center (SDSC), UC San Diego where he works on applied
and applications-oriented research problems related to data
management and data analytics.<br>
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Dr. Baru has participated in a number of "data cyberinfrastructure"
initiatives, including as Principal Investigator of the
OpenTopography project; Cyberinfrastructure Lead, Tropical Ecology,
Assessment and Monitoring network; Co-Investigator of the
Cyberinfrastructure for Comparative Effectiveness Research project;
Member of the founding Senior Management Team of the National
Ecologial Observatory Network and Co-PI of the NEON
Cyberinfrastructure Testbed; Co-PI of the CUAHSI Hydrologic
Information Systems; Director, NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center;
PI/Project Director, Geosciences Network; and member of the How Much
Information? project.<br>
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Baru leads the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Development Group at
SDSC and is also Director of the Center for Large-scale Data Systems
research. Prior to joining SDSC in 1996, Baru was at IBM, where he
led one of the development teams for DB2 Parallel Edition Version 1
and at the University of Michigan, where he served on the faculty of
the EECS Department. He received his B.Tech in Electronics
Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and
M.E. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of
Florida, Gainesville.<br>
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