The topics for Summer 2019 Data Science Institute include Network Analysis Using R, Mixed-effects models and related topics with R, Data visualization, Social Media Analytics and Survival Analysis.

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.

Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Informatics (IGPI) Graduates

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.

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.

"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."

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.

“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.

“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).

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.

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.

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.

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