Good Luck on Your Next Step, Heidee!
This newsletter has been diligently compiled by Heidee Xiong, the Data Science Hub Student Assistant, for nearly two years. Heidee is graduating and moving on to a new position outside UW. Thank you Heidee for all your hard work supporting this community and congratulations on finishing your degree! Best wishes from the Data Science Hub and Data Science Community at UW-Madison!
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Faces of Data Science: Jason Lo
What goes on in a child’s brain when they encounter a word? As a doctoral student in Hong Kong, Jason Lo used neural imaging to understand how children learn to read. This work sparked his interest in using computational modeling to capture reading behaviors and provide interventions to improve learning. Jason specializes in crafting custom deep neural networks that simulate children's reading acquisition.
This winter, Jason joined the team at the Data Science Institute. In this role, Jason is interested in applying machine learning solutions to a wide range of research and business problems and delivering user-friendly products. You can learn more about him in Faces of Data Science, a growing collection of profiles of UW-Madison’s data science community, curated by the DSI.
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In the News
Jo Handelsman, Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology and director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences, considered one of the highest honors a scientist can receive. Miron Livny, a leader in high-throughput computing and Computer Sciences Professor, has been named a Vilas Research Professor. Joan Schmit, American Family Insurance Distinguished Chair in Risk Management and Insurance at the Wisconsin School of Business, was awarded the Harry and Dorothy Goodell Award—one of the highest honors to recognize an individual who has furthered the risk management discipline.
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Data Science Institute Offers Services to Campus and Community Partners
The Data Science Institute (DSI) collaborates with on- and off-campus researchers, industry, and community partners to solve problems and derive meaning and value from data. On campus, the DSI works with researchers and teams to provide data science capacity. We can take on short-term tasks on a fee-for-service basis, and we can partner on proposals for extramural funding with a data science component.
DSI data scientists work with industry and community partners to catalyze innovation and bring the benefits of data science research to both their businesses and society. We also collaborate on public-private funding opportunities, including grant partnerships. To learn more and request DSI data science services, visit the DSI website.
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NSF Announces New AI Institutes
The U.S. National Science Foundation, in collaboration with other federal agencies and higher education institutions and other stakeholders, recently announced a $140 million investment to establish seven new National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes. The new AI Institutes will advance foundational AI research that promotes ethical and trustworthy AI systems and technologies, develop novel approaches to cybersecurity, contribute to innovative solutions to climate change, expand our understanding of the brain, and leverage AI capabilities to enhance education and public health. The AI Institutes will support the development of a diverse AI workforce in the United States and help address the risks and potential harms posed by AI.
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REU Data and Software Carpentries *Undergraduates Only*
This summer, the Data Science Hub is offering two in-person, hands-on workshops for UW undergraduates.
June 5-8, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., students can learn the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research by taking part in the Data Carpentry workshop.
June 12-15, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., students can learn basic research programming concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation, by taking part in the Software Carpentry workshop.
For information about general workshop details from BRC, visit the workshop pages linked above.
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Next Generation Data Analysis Workshops Summer 2023
June - July, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., The Bioinformatics Resource Core (BRC) at the UW Biotechnology Center (UWBC) is offering heavily hands-on workshops on Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) Data Analysis skills. To learn more about the summer workshops and to register, view the links in the following schedule:
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Have questions about anything data science-related? Come see the Data Science Hub facilitators at Coding Meetup on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:30-4:30 p.m. CT. To join Coding Meetup, join data-science-hubgroup.slack.com.
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The V. Craig Jordan Distinguished Lecture in Transnational Cancer Research
May 18, 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., This lecture will feature speaker Elaine Mardis who will be talking about Ushering in an Era of Genomics-Guided Precision Pediatric Cancer Medicine. Interested participants can join the lecture in-person at 1325 Health Sciences Learning Center or via Zoom.
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MLOPT Idea Seminar
May 26, 12:30 p.m., The MLOPT Idea Seminar is a student-led forum where junior researchers from all around the world are invited to present their recent ideas and findings. The seminar aims to provide an open and supportive platform for researchers to share their published or in-progress papers with the opportunity to receive feedback from their peers. The Idea Seminar will be featuring speaker Isun Han from Yale who will be talking about Accelerating Transformers via Kernel Density Estimation. Participants should attend online via the provided Zoom link.
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Azure Research Day
May 31, 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Researchers across the US have been leveraging Microsoft Azure to accelerate their time to science and science to scholarship. Microsoft Azure provides an open, flexible, global platform that supports multiple programming languages, tools, and frameworks allowing researchers to achieve faster results using the cloud. During this Research Day for University of Wisconsin-Madison, you will hear from various experts across campus, Microsoft, and peer institutions on the value of cloud research and the benefits of Azure. Register today to see how you can start today to leverage Azure in your research! To register and see more information, visit the Azure Research Day page.
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Computation and Informatics in Biology and Medicine and Biomedical Data Science Programs Annual Retreat
June 2, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., The Computation and Informatics in Biology and Medicine Training Program and the Biomedical Data Science PhD Program will be holding its annual retreat. The retreat will feature the following four invited speakers: Rhonda Bacher, Lisa Bastarache, Nathanael Fillmore, and Ameet Soni. There will also be a poster session and trainee lighting talk. Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided. Interested participants should RSVP using the CIBM and BDA annual retreat survey.
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ACM FAccT 2023
June 12-15, The ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT) is a computer science conference with a cross-disciplinary focus that brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems. ACM FAccT is an interdisciplinary conference dedicated to bringing together a diverse community of scholars from computer science, law, social sciences, and humanities to investigate and tackle issues in this emerging area. Research challenges are not limited to technological solutions regarding potential bias, but include the question of whether decisions should be outsourced to data- and code-driven computing systems. The sixth annual ACM FAccT conference will be held in Hyatt Regency McCormick Place in Chicago. To learn more about this event and to register, visit the ACM FAccT 2023 homepage.
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Throughput Computing 2023
July 10-14, For the first time, the OSG Consortium, the HTCondor team, and the Center for High Throughput Computing will be hosting Throughput Computing 2023 (HTC 23) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Fluno Center. HTC 23 is a new event that joins together the annual OSG All-Hands Meeting and HTCondor Week.
HTC 23 gives OSPool or HTCondor users, contributors, and collaborators the chance to exchange ideas and experiences, to learn about the latest services and research, and to experience live demos. Current or potential consumers or providers of distributed high throughput computing and HTCondor users or administrators are welcome to attend. HPC 23 will include presentations from researchers who use OSG services or HTCondor. Leadership will discuss the current state and future plans for OSG services and HTCondor development. For more information about this event and to register, visit the Throughput Computing 2023 webpage.
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SILO Seminar Series
Wednesdays, 12:30 p.m., SILO is about breaking down the systems, information, leaning, and optimization of research created by academic department boundaries. Recent advances in information science are allowing scientists and researchers to sense, process and share data in ways and scales previously impossible. These developments have the potential to benefit work happening in a wide range of disciplines. SILO’s purpose is to help realize such potential by providing the time and space for researchers to present and interact to find common threads. Visit the SILO webpage for information about their upcoming talks.
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Madison Area Software Developers Meetup
Today, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Nitty-Gritty Middleton, This group meets monthly to keep developers informed about the constantly changing technologies necessary to succeed and innovate. They are committed to lifelong learning, bridging the education gap between college and industry, and networking within the Madison area. Topics of discussion include, but are not limited to:
- scripting languages such as Ruby and Python
- compiled languages such as Java, C#, and C++
- Big Data, micro services, and architecture
- mobile, Raspberry Pi, and IoT development
- emerging tools and services for developers
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The Carpentries is seeking new members to bring additional diversity and expertise into its instructional community. Among other benefits, members have opportunities to advance their technical and teaching skills by attending computational workshops and participating in an optional instructor training program. Join the google group if interested in learning more!
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WID Administrative Student Assistant
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Postdoctoral Fellow
ViQi is seeking a postdoctoral candidate for the NSF SBIR Innovative Postdoctoral Entrepreneurial Research Fellowship. In this role, the fellow will lead efforts to develop analytical tools for the JUMP-Cell Painting Consortium principal dataset: a recently released open-source, high-content screen of over 100,000 compounds collected across 10 pharmaceutical companies. The successful candidate will be responsible for writing, testing, and troubleshooting code to analyze this dataset including quantitative comparison between phenotypes, discovering linkage between phenotype similarities and biological pathways, training large neural network models to make predictions based on the phenotypes in this dataset, and developing tools for quantitative comparisons of phenotypes between customer-generated screens and JUMP. The role requires a high degree of autonomy during the research, planning and execution phases, therefore the candidate must be a self-starter with an entrepreneurial mind-set and have exceptional problem solving skills. For more information and to apply, visit the Postdoctoral Fellow position description.
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DATA VISUALIZATION OF THE WEEK
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The Academic Data Science Alliance (ADSA) is a network of academic data science practitioners, educators, and leaders, and academic-adjacent colleagues, who thoughtfully integrate data science best practices in higher education. UW-Madison is a founding member of ADSA.
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