UNC Charlotte Planning Grant: IUCRC for Center for Visual and Decision Informatics

这笔规划赠款将为在北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校建立一个成功的IUCRC网站奠定基础，该网站附属于现有的IUCRC中心--视觉和决策信息学中心(CVDI)。北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校的网站将专注于建立、推广和传播研究、开发和应用大数据驱动的风险管理和缓解分析的最佳实践，这些分析适用于可持续社会(社会公益)和区域行业，包括金融服务、医疗保健、能源和零售。该网站将使用现有的北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校大数据存储库和分析工具框架SOPHI，为企业、政府和大学建立一个计算平台，通过使用数据、分析、可操作的政策和可验证的结果来共同解决风险管理和缓解问题。事实证明，夏洛特地区各式各样的企业吸引了不同群体的学生。与其他北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特STEM研究生课程相比，现有的分析类研究生课程已经更加多样化，女性入学率达到40%，PI的目标是吸引代表人数较少的群体参加IUCRC的活动和校园内的分析课程，以加强这些课程，并为这些学生提供更多在热门学科的职业机会。作为颁奖活动的一部分，私人投资主任将制定战略，并为这一过程的所有方面分配责任。

This planning grant will lay the foundation for establishing a successful IUCRC site at University of North Carolina - Charlotte, affiliated with the existing IUCRC center - the Center for Visual and Decision Informatics (CVDI). The UNC Charlotte site will focus on establishing, promoting, and disseminating best practices for research, development, and application of big data-driven analysis of risk management and mitigation in sustainable societies (social good) and regional industries, including financial services, healthcare, energy, and retail. The site will use the existing UNC Charlotte big data repository and analytics tools framework, called SOPHI, to establish a computational platform for corporations, governments, and universities to jointly address the issue of risk management and mitigation through the use of data, analytics, actionable policies, and verifiable outcomes. The diversity of businesses around the Charlotte region has proven to be of interest to a diverse groupof students. With the existing graduate programs in analytics already more diverse than other UNC CharlotteSTEM graduate programs achieving 40% women enrollment, the PIs aim to attract underrepresented groups into the IUCRC activities and analytics programs on campus, both to augment those programs and to offer these students enhanced career opportunities in sought-after disciplines. As part of the award activities, the PIs will create a strategy and assign responsibilities for all aspects of this process.