The Department is proud to announce that 19 new research awards amounting to over 3.3 million dollars have been awarded to CS faculty over the last two months. Funding sources include – the National Science Foundation, National Institute of General Medical Science, USDA/CREES, Hewlett-Packard Labs, and the D.C. Department of Transportation. Congratulations to all faculty members whose research efforts have been recognized through these awards!

New research awards for Fiscal Year 2010 include:

Godmar Back and Stephen Edwards have received funding through the National Science Foundation for an award titled “Reinvigorating CS1 by enabling creative Web 2.0 programming.”

Ali Butt received a National Science Foundation award for his “US - Pakistan International Planning Visit: Economical Computing Substrate for Developing Regions” proposal.

Kirk Cameron is the recipient of two National Science Foundation Awards titled “CSR: Large Collaborative Research: A multi-Core Application Modeling Infrastructure” and “CSR: Medium: Collaborative Research: Gridpack: A Resource Management System for Energy and Performance Optimization. “

Yong Cao and Francis Quek were awarded a National Science Foundation award for their proposal “EAGER Drummer Game: A massive-interactive Socially-Enabled Strategy Game”.

Wu-chun Feng received a National Science Foundation Award for his “CSR: Small: Collaborative Research: Hybrid Opportunistic Computing for Green Clouds” proposal.

Ed Fox, Andrea Kavanaugh, and Naren Ramakrishnan are recipients of a National Science Foundation award for their proposal titled “Small: CTRNCT: Integrated Digital Library Support of Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery.”

C.T. Lu has been awarded funding through the Virginia Department of Transportation for work on a project titled “ Homes: Highway Operation Monitoring and Evaluation System.”

Scott McCrickard recently received funding from the National Science Foundation for a proposal “ REU Sites: Building Interfaces for Tomorrow’s Technology- The Virginia Tech Undergraduate Research In Human-Computer Interaction Program” and as a collaborator with North Carolina A&T State University’s project titled “ A4RC Summer Research Program.”

T.M. Murali was awarded funding as a co-investigator on a National Science Foundation award titled “Transcriptional Signatures of 3D liver Mimetic Architectures”.

Alexey Onufriev’s proposal titled “Analytical Electrostatics: Methods and Biological Applications” has been awarded funding by the National Institute of General Medical Science. The award will be used to supplement and expand upon Onufriev’s existing research award sponsored by NIGMS.

Naren Ramakrishnan has recently received two awards. The first, sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Labs Innovation Research , “ Temporal Data Mining Solutions for Sustainable Data Centers”, and a second from the National Science Foundation titled “III:Medium: Collaborative Research: Integration, Prediction, And Generation Of Mixed Models Information Using Graphical Models.

Adrian Sandu has been awarded a National Science Foundation award titled “Collaborative Research: A Computational Framework for Assessing the Observation Impact in Air Quality Forecasting.

Cliff Shaffer and Stephen Edwards have received two awards from the National Science Foundation this fall. The first titled “The Algoviz Portal: Lowering the Barriers into an Online Educational Community,” and the second for a workshop called “Algoviz Project Steering Committee Workshop” .

Francis Quek and Pardha Pyla have received an award from Bloomberg, LP for a project titled “Analysis and Development of Interaction Designs for Bloomberg’s Internal Systems.

Liqing Zhang has received funding through a USDA/CSREES award titled “Genome-Wide Identification of STAT5 Binding Sequences in Cattle.”

CS Seminar Series

Start: 09/18/2009 1:25 pm

End: 09/18/2009 2:15 pm

Timezone: US/Eastern

Title: "The Future Edge of the Internet -- Massively Broadband Wireless Access"
Speaker: Ted Rappaport, William and Bettye Nowlin Chair of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
Date: September 18, 2009
Time: 1:25 pm – 2:15 pm.

CS Graduate Student Thomas Scogland Awarded 2009 NDSEG Fellowship

Publish Date: 09/17/2009

Thomas Scogland, a Ph.D candidate working with Dr. Wu Feng, has been awarded a prestigious 3 year National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) fellowship through the Department of Defense. Scogland’s recognition as an NDSEG fellow is a significant accomplishment and a great honor for both Scogland and the Computer Science Department. For 2009, Scogland is the sole representative of Virginia Tech and one of only 200 NDSEG recipients across the country.

Scogland states that ”It has been a great honor to receive the NDSEG fellowship and the additional latitude the funding affords me is allowing me to focus my research more toward my thesis and the areas I find important. It excites me greatly to be able to give greater focus to my work, and more time to the support of my lab.” Scogland also credits his advisor, Dr. Wu-chun Feng, for making such funding possible. He notes that he could not have gotten to this point without Dr. Feng’s extensive support and assistance.

Through the NDSEG program, the DoD provides a three year portable fellowship awarded to U.S. citizens or nationals. The competition for this prestigious award is highly competitive with fewer than 10% of the applicants receiving awards. The fellowship provides full coverage for tuition and fees at any University as well as an annual stipend. Since the NDSEG program’s inception 20 years ago, the DoD has awarded approximately 3,000 fellowships to graduate students in engineering and scientific research.

For Additional Information please see:

http://ndseg.asee.org/

Dr. Edward Fox and collaborators receive Best Poster Award at Outreach NOW conference

Publish Date: 09/15/2009

Drs. Edward Fox, Andrea Kavanaugh, Naren Ramakrishnan, Steve Sheetz, and Donald Shoemaker, all of Virginia Tech, presented a poster “CTRnet: A Global Human and Computer Network for Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery” at the 2009 Outreach NOW conference.

The Outreach NOW conference series is sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Outreach and International Affairs and the Office of International Research, Education, and Development (OIRED). The conferences are designed to increase the participation and advancement of Virginia Tech faculty, staff, students, and community partners in outreach and engagement. This year’s conference, Outreach NOW 2009, Celebrating Progress in the Internationalization of Virginia Tech, was held September 14^th at the Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center.

The winning poster displayed the team’s work in creating a Crisis, Tragedy and Recovery (CTR) global integrated distributed digital library. Communities have responded to human tragedies that result from either natural or manmade events in various ways, with thousands of examples of vigils, memorials, and archives demonstrating the desire to preserve the communal memory of a tragic event. The impact of these events is felt over extended periods, requiring longitudinal perspectives to understand their complexity and inter-dependencies. Yet, advanced intelligent information integration methods have not been applied to this domain. The CTRnet digital library includes collecting and permanent archiving (aided by the Internet Archive), before it can be lost, as much information as possible- through uploading, crawling, harvesting, and connecting with Web 2.0. Those facing a new crisis, as well as scholars, support professionals, and recovering communities, can be aided.

For more information regarding the CTRnet project please see:

Abstract

Poster

Dr. Ed Fox