Penn State is part of a $4 million multi-institution grant aimed at identifying innovative solutions for societal, scientific and industry challenges through strategic data science partnerships. As part of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub, Penn State will continue to collaborate on big data projects that are too large and complex for individual organizations to manage independently.
Hui Yang is an associate professor in the Penn State Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Through his expertise in complex system monitoring, modeling and control, Yang and his students discover new ways to optimize the design of various service industries through data-driven innovation.
The Office of the Vice President for Research has launched cyberinfrastructure.psu.edu to help faculty and staff find data, cyber, programming and IT resources available to researchers at Penn State. The site covers broad categories that include, but are not limited to, data storage, cloud computing, networking, research instrumentation software, and much more.
An IBM representative will brief Penn State researchers on IBM supercomputers at a free learning session hosted by Penn State’s Institute for CyberScience on Feb. 27.
A researcher and development engineer for the Institute for CyberScience will review high-performance computing resources available to researchers at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 28, in W203 Millennium Science Complex at University Park. Seating is limited, so attendees must register in advance.
A new program developed by researchers from Penn State and Microsoft Azure automatically detects regions of interest within images, alleviating a serious bottleneck in processing photos for wildlife research.
A massive release of passive-surveillance satellite data of nighttime lights could help researchers in fields ranging from agriculture to epidemiology.
Penn State researchers Vasant Honavar, Timothy Brick and Ariana Winder will look at important issues surrounding data use and privacy that will be discussed at this month’s "Science on Tap" event. They will explore how organizations can better navigate the health data conversation and partner with all stakeholders to provide better prevention, diagnosis and treatment for everyone, and how people collectively move towards better understanding and transparency of who owns what and how is it being used.
The College of Information Sciences and Technology will welcome leading data sciences faculty and scholars to share their research through a new research seminar series. Talks will be held on Tuesdays from 12-1 p.m. on the University Park campus, and all events are free and open to the public.
Penn State’s data sciences program was established to position graduates to address some of the world’s most challenging problems. As an increasing number of companies begin to produce larger data sets, there is a growing demand for skilled data scientists to analyze the information and present solutions.
Researchers from across Penn State are working together to create a secure infrastructure for studying health conditions by harnessing the power of big data.
Penn State's new data center gives researchers the ability to tackle complex questions that range from detecting subatomic particles, to understanding how planets form, to anticipating how natural disasters and more gradual changes in natural systems will affect human systems such as water supply and food production.
For Penn State undergraduate student Yuya Ong, data sciences isn’t just his major — it’s a way of thinking about life.
When Heather Myers registered for a data visualization course this past spring, she anticipated learning techniques and tools to depict large amounts of data. Little did she know she would receive global recognition from Tableau, a leader in business intelligence and analytics software. Her interactive map of Pennsylvania depicting the value of farms and amounts of livestock provides users with a glimpse into agricultural life in 1850.
Every year, severe weather endangers millions of people and causes billions of dollars in damage worldwide. But new research from Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) and AccuWeather has found a way to better predict some of these threats by harnessing the power of big data. By identifying bow echoes, this automatic detection would be vital to earlier recognition of severe weather, saving lives and resources.
