Planning Grant: I/UCRC Center for Visual Decision Informatics

导演？Drexel大学（DU）正计划与路易斯安那州拉斐特大学（UL）合作，成立一个新的NSF工业/大学合作研究中心（I/UCRC），名为“视觉决策信息学中心”。“该中心的使命将是开发利用现代计算机硬件和软件的新的视觉和分析方法，并开发可应用于这一复杂的基于数据的决策过程的分析和发现工具。 DU在生物医学图像挖掘，脑电路分析，大规模知识地图探索和推理视觉分析方面的研究项目展示了与路易斯安那大学拉斐特分校互补的研究优势。 拟议的网站将提供一个平台，通过成员之间的协作来刺激创新，并将使用沉浸式可视化来改善中心成员员工的培训和教育。 拟议的网站将为学生和教师提供一个平台，进行行业相关的研究，一个有效和方便的合作形成和维护机制;还将促进，催化和加速技术创新的商业化。 DU致力于从传统上在计算机科学和其他科学学科中代表性不足的群体中招募参与者;并将通过与包括宾夕法尼亚州林肯大学在内的少数民族机构的同事持续的工作关系来促进这一计划。

PROGRAM DIRECTOR?S RECOMMENDATIONIIP 0934197Drexel UniversityHuDrexel University (DU) is planning to partner with the University of Louisiana-Lafayette (UL) to form a new NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) entitled "Center for Visual Decision Informatics." The mission of the Center will be to develop new visual and analytical methods that leverage modern computer hardware and software, and develop analysis and discovery tools that can be applied to this complex data-based decision-making process. DU's research projects in biomedical image mining, analysis of brain circuits, exploration of large-scale knowledge maps, and visual analysis for reasoning demonstrate research strengths that are complementary to those at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. The proposed site will provide a platform to stimulate innovation through collaboration among members, and will improve the training and education of employees of Center members using immersive visualization. The proposed site will provide students and faculty a platform to conduct industry-relevant research, an effective and convenient mechanism for collaboration formation and maintenance; and will also promote, catalyze and accelerate the commercialization of technology innovations. DU is committed to recruiting participants from groups that are traditionally under-represented in computer science and other scientific disciplines; and will promote this program through its ongoing working relationships with colleagues at minority institutions including Lincoln University at Pennsylvania.