Center for Visual and Decision Informatics (CVDI) I/UCRC site at the University of Virginia

视觉与决策信息学中心（CVDI）国家科学基金会工业大学合作研究中心（IUCRC）由路易斯安那大学拉斐特分校（UL Lafayette）和德雷克塞尔大学于2012年成立。CVDI在第一阶段成功地满足了IUCRC项目管理的要求，在研究资金、行业成员和学术网站方面表现出了良好的增长轨迹，并将继续进入第二阶段的运营。该奖项旨在帮助在弗吉尼亚大学（UVA）建立第二阶段CVDI站点，以补充和加强CVDI现有站点的研究基础和工业支持。该中心的活动将通过解决金融、网络物理系统和安全等国家优先领域产生社会效益，并将为政府和行业提供具有价值的数据科学创新。UVA CVDI将遵循一项战略，以扩大科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）的参与：（1）通过NSF本科生研究经验计划涉及代表性不足的群体;（2）从邻近的历史黑人学院和大学招募研究生;（3）与K-12 STEM计划合作，进行数据科学推广;以及（4）通过利用CVDI行业成员和国家倡议增加学生实习机会，如少数民族研究生教育计划。CVDI将作为一个主要的研究和创新中心，解决数据科学核心领域的挑战，如大数据分析，可视化分析，增强智能，和决策信息学。UVA网站在许多重要的技术领域带来了互补和协同的研究力量，包括：认知辅助，信息检索，自然语言处理，潜在结构学习，强化学习，数据融合和分布式学习，以及基于代理的模型和仿真。UVA网站专注于决策分析和人在环数据收集，分析和利用，补充了其他网站的活动和兴趣。UVA网站的应用领域也加强和补充了其他网站的应用领域。其中包括：计算法、制造业、物联网和传感、数据隐私和安全、金融和银行、互联网分析和国防。

The Center for Visual and Decision Informatics (CVDI) National Science Foundation Industry University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) was established in 2012 by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette) and Drexel University. CVDI has been successful in meeting the IUCRC program management requirements during its Phase 1, with demonstrated excellent growth trajectory in terms of research funding, industry members, and academic sites, and will continue into Phase 2 operation. This award aims to help establish a Phase II CVDI site at the University of Virginia (UVA) that complements and strengthens the research base and industrial support of the existing sites of CVDI. The Center's activities will generate societal benefits by addressing areas of national priority such as finance, cyber-physical systems, and security, and will deliver data science innovations with value to both government and industry. UVA CVDI will follow a strategy to broaden Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) participation: (1) involve under-represented groups through the NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates program; (2) recruit graduate students from neighboring Historically Black Colleges and Universities; (3) collaborate with K-12 STEM programs for data science outreach; and (4) increase student internships opportunities by leveraging CVDI industrial members and national initiatives, as the Graduate Education for Minorities program.CVDI will serve as a major research and innovation center for solving challenges in core areas of data science such as big data analytics, visual analytics, augmented intelligence, and decision informatics. The UVA site brings complementary and synergistic research strength in a number of important technical areas, including: cognitive assistance, information retrieval, natural language processing, latent structure learning, reinforcement learning, data fusion and distributed learning, and agent-based models and simulation. The UVA site's focus on decision analytics and human-in-the-loop data gathering, analysis, and exploitation complements the activities and interests of the other sites. Application domains for the UVA site also reinforce and complement those of the other sites. These include: computational law, manufacturing, IoT and sensing, data privacy and security, finance and banking, internet analytics, and national defense.