[CSEE Talk] Talk: Chaitan Baru on Big Data/Data Science Programs at NSF, 10am Fri Feb 26, ITE459

[Tim Finin]

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*Big Data/Data Science Programs at NSF*

Dr. Chaitan Baru
Senior Advisor for Data Science, NSF CISE Directorate

10:00-11:00am Friday 12 February 2016, ITE 459, UMBC

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.

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.

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.

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.

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