University of Oregon Planning Proposal: I/UCRC for Big Learning

拟议的NSF I/UCRC大学习中心(CBL)由分布在全国各地的四所创始大学的多学科专家组成：俄勒冈大学(UO，West)、卡内基梅隆大学(CMU，East)、密苏里大学堪萨斯城分校(UMKC，Central)和佛罗里达大学(UF，South)。该中心的使命是探索新算法设计方面的研究前沿，并为大数据和大系统时代的深度学习研究及其应用开发高效系统。通过一个多站点和多学科的联合体，联合利华大学的CBL中心将依靠行业合作伙伴的大力支持，专注于涉及多模式媒体(即文本、图像和问答)的大规模深度学习在各个领域(即健康、生命科学、物联网/移动和商业)的关键应用。拟建的多学科中心将为培养新科学家和研究生提供重要机会，并提供一个跨学科参与的环境。UO的研究团队包括数据科学、人工智能、机器学习、高性能计算、物联网、健康信息学和生物信息学方面的专家。UO的CBL致力于促进学术界、政府和行业利益相关者在算法、系统、应用和教育方面的快速创新以及技术转让方面的专业知识融合，使其成为具有现实世界相关性和意义的尖端产品和服务。UO网站将通过部署各种深度学习模型来探索与健康行为建模、活动推荐、社交网络分析和隐私保护相关的几个研究项目。这些规划活动将导致成功地提出建立CBL中心的提案，该中心拥有跨多个校区的坚实财团和大量的行业合作伙伴。我们建议的会议、论坛、会议和计划中的培训课程将极大地促进和拓宽大规模深度学习的研究和实现。

The proposed NSF I/UCRC Center for Big Learning (CBL) consists of multi-disciplinary experts at the four founding universities that are geographically distributed across the country: University of Oregon (UO, West), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU, East), University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC, Central), and University of Florida (UF, South). The mission of this center is to explore research frontiers in the design of novel algorithms and developing efficient systems for deep learning research and its applications in the era of big data and big systems. Through a multi-site and multi-disciplinary consortium, the CBL center at the UO will focus on key applications of large-scale deep learning involving multi-modal media (i.e., text, image, and Q&A) in various domains (i.e., health, life science, IoT/mobile, and business) relying on strong support from the industry partners. The proposed multidisciplinary center will offer important opportunities for training new scientists and graduate students, and provide an environment for cross-disciplinary engagement.The research team at the UO includes experts in data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, high performance computing, IoT, health informatics, and bioinformatics. The CBL at the UO seeks to catalyze the fusion of expertise from academia, government, and industry stakeholders related to the rapid innovation in algorithms, systems, applications as well as education, and technology transfer into cutting-edge products and services with real-world relevance and significance. The UO site will explore several research projects related to health behavior modeling, activity recommendation, social network analysis, and privacy preserving by deploying various deep learning models. The planning activities will lead to a successful proposal for the establishment of the CBL center with a solid consortium across multiple campuses and a large number of industry partners. Our proposed meetings, forums, conferences, and planned training sessions will greatly promote and broaden the research and materialization of large-scale deep learning.