Information Technology Services, a service organization that provides technology support for the University of Iowa campus, is seeking a Data Science Consultant that will work under direction of the Sr. Director of Research Services.
Callouts
UI3's Ibrahim Demir & team map 100,000 Iowa wells to determine rural water quality
“Our system connects 100,000 wells and analyzes all the combinations in the well in the area you selected, and that will give you an estimate of the geology of the aquifer levels and depth of the aquifer,” said Ibrahim Demir, a UI assistant professor of civil/environmental engineering and a researcher at the environmental-contamination center.
UI3's Jun Wang promotes agricultural water conservation with smart sensors
Professor Jun Wang at the University of Iowa’s College of BioChemical Engineering knows weather changes can make it or break it for farmers. His background in Atmospheric studies and understanding of farming practices led him to develop a way for farmers to adopt a concept called precision farming.
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Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Informatics (IGPI) Graduates
UI-IIHR Grad Student Robyn Williams Investigates Water Quality
When University of Iowa officials notified the campus that the water system had exceeded the EPA’s Safe Drinking Water Standard of 80 parts per billion total trihalomethanes, UI graduate student Robyn Williams began work on a data-intensive project to initiate change in Iowa’s water quality.
Perez Selected for Trusted CI Open Science Cybersecurity Fellows Program
University of Iowa (UI) Research Technology Compliance Specialist Gabriella Perez (Information Technology Services; Research Services) was one of six delegates selected from a nationally-competitive pool to participate in the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Trusted CI Open Science Cybersecurity Fellows Program.
Jun Wang & Team Awarded $1.6 million USDA Precision Ag Grant
"The project is led by Jun Wang, chemical and biochemical engineering professor and assistant director for the Center for Computer-Aided Design in the UI’s College of Engineering. As part of the UI3, Wang worked with UI Information Technology Services and Protostudios in Iowa City to develop the proposal."
Schnieders' Need for Speed
Michael J. Schnieders’ team uses computational accelerators to discover solutions to health problems associated with an aging population. “It once took a year on 20 compute nodes to optimize all of the protein structures in the Deafness Variation Database for analysis of specific phenome-genome combinations that led to hereditary hearing loss; now it's accomplished in one week using 10 Graphics Processing Units, or GPUs,” he said.
The Future of Autonomous Transportation
“Ethics, legal and safety considerations will govern the progress of autonomous transportation,” said UI's Daniel McGehee who predicts that full automation is decades away from ubiquity. “By 2040, ~ 90 percent of cars on the road will have today’s production advanced driver assistance system technology. It is hard to predict when fully autonomous cars will be able to operate in all conditions,” he added.
Applications for AI in Geosciences
“When your grandmother can command complex data on affordable, intelligent systems that help her decide when to take shelter or flee to avoid a destructive storm, we begin to realize how smart devices improve personal safety and quality of life for the most vulnerable members of society,” said UI3 Cluster Faculty Member Ibrahim Demir (Civil & Environmental Engineering; Electrical & Computer Engineering).
AI for Smarter Organ Transplants
UI Health Informatics PhD Student Eric Pahl is driven to develop smarter tech to improve access, affordability and quality of organ replacement therapies. With Dalton Shaull, he co-founded OmniLife, Inc.; they developed an app that halves the time necessary to arrange transplants.
UI3 AI Symposium Keynote Michael Abràmoff (CCOM)
Michael Abràmoff (CCOM) developed the first fully-autonomous diagnostic AI system to be cleared by the FDA; clinical trials were approved in 2018 for IDx-DR, a fully-autonomous AI system for the early detection of diabetic retinopathy.
Solving College Football's Mystery
Our Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Informatics student, Kristina Bigsby, has had her work featured on The Washington Post for predicting where high school students will go to play college football. The article has been published in the INFORMS Data Analytics journal.
Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Informatics
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145 North Riverside Dr.
Iowa City, IA 52242
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N500 CPHB
145 North Riverside Dr.
Iowa City, IA 52242
319-384-1197
igpi@uiowa.edu
News
July 19, 2019
Microsoft recently expanded its support for academic research by creating a Microsoft Investigator Fellowship. Full-time faculty at U.S. degree-granting colleges and universities who are currently conducting research, advising graduate students, teaching in a classroom, and use or plan to use Microsoft Azure in research and teaching are encouraged to submit proposals by August 16, 2019.
The award is a $100,000 annual stipend for two years beginning fall 2019.
July 09, 2019
For a PDF version of this letter, click 
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Dear Colleagues,
Earlier this spring, the Iowa Office of the Provost transitioned seven faculty clusters to independence after ten years of direct oversight and financial support which ends June 30, 2019.
Events
Multi-node & Distributed Computing with MPI Workshop
Tuesday, September 3, 2019, 10:00am to Wednesday, September 4, 2019, 4:00pm
Registration link will be updated in mid-late August 2019...
Location: University Capitol Centre
Studio Graduate Student Open House
Friday, September 6, 2019, 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Please join us on Friday, September 6th from 3:00-4:00 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio (1015 Main Library) for a graduate student open house to learn...
Location: University of Iowa Main Library