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Sahara Ali, PhD received her official doctoral hood during the Doctoral Hooding ceremony on December 18, 2024 at UMBC. Dr. Ali is currently an assistant professor at University of North Texas and continues to be apart of the iHARP research community. Congratulations on this monumental achievement. Dissertation Title: Spatiotemporal Forecasting and Causality Methods for the Arctic Amplification Committee: - Dr Jianwu Wang (Committee Chair, UMBC) - Dr Vandana P. Janeja Janeja (UMBC) - Dr Sanjay Purushotham Purushotham (UMBC) - Dr Md Osman Gani Gani (UMBC) - Dr Aneesh Subramanian (UC Boulder) - Dr Yiyi Huang, PhD Huang (UMBC / Bloomberg)

Join the NSF HDR ML Challenge, which runs through January 17, 2025. The challenge focuses on anomaly detection in scientific domains. The challenge includes three different subdomains corresponding for three different competitions and a combined competition across domains of : the discovery of anomalous astrophysical events with gravitational waves, anomalous sea-level rise, and the detection of new species. Please visit the challenge website for more information and how to participate: https://lnkd.in/gcH-nV83 #Nsf #nsffunded #nsfhdr iHARP Imageomics Institute Accelerated AI Algorithms for Data-Driven Discovery

Akila Sampath successfully defended her PhD Proposal on Wednesday, December 4. Join iHARP in congratulating Akila on her successful PhD proposal defense. Title: Leveraging Physical Principles in Deep Learning to Study Arctic Sea Ice Committee Dr. Jianwu Wang, Chair/Advisor (UMBC) Dr. Vandana P. Janeja Janeja, Co-Chair (UMBC) Dr. Houbing Herbert Song Song (UMBC) Dr. James Foulds (UMBC) Dr. Donald.k.Perovich (Dartmouth College) Dr. Nicole-Jeanne Schlegel (NOAA) Click here to read the abstract: https://lnkd.in/epTWmcEK #PhDDefense #climate UMBC Department of Information Systems #NSF #NSFFunded

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🎉 Thank you to all our amazing presenters, Lora Harris, Benedikt Riedel, Kevin Coakley, Anthony Arendt, and Rachel Brennan who have kicked off iHARP's Fall 2024 Talk Tuesday Series. We have an exciting line up for Spring 2025 and can't wait to share it with you! Upcoming event details will be released soon. :) ❗ Don't forget to join us for our 3rd Annual Fireside Talk, tonight at 4p. iHARP senior researchers will share how they create effective presentations to communicate their research and ideas. We will cover their struggles and successes and their tips and tricks that have made them successful. Bring a warm drink and snacks, and cozy on up to the virtual fireside for our last 2024 Talk Tuesday event. iHARP Senior Research Panel Includes: Dr. Vandana P. Janeja Janeja, UMBC -- Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, Professor in Information Systems Department, PI & Director NSF HDR Institute - iHARP Dr. Mathieu Morlighem, Dartmouth -- Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Dartmouth College, iHARP Co-PI & Co-Director Dr. Shashi Shekhar, UMN -- Professor, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Distinguished University Teaching Professor, ADC/CSE Chair, AI-CLIMATE Institute Director, iHARP Co-PI For event link, please click the following URL to: https://lnkd.in/eu4NY2Cy

3rd Annual Fireside: Making Effective Presentations Tuesday, December 3, 2024 | 4p Come, relax, and join us for an engaging informal conversation with leading scientists and researchers. Learn how they create effective presentations to communicate their research and ideas. We will cover their struggles and successes and their tips and tricks that have made them successful. Bring a warm drink and snacks, and cozy on up to the virtual fireside for our last 2024 Talk Tuesday event. iHARP Senior Research Panel Includes: Dr. Vandana P. Janeja Janeja, UMBC -- Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, Professor in Information Systems Department, PI & Director NSF HDR Institute - iHARP Dr. Mathieu Morlighem, Dartmouth -- Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Dartmouth College, iHARP Co-PI & Co-Director Dr. Shashi Shekhar, UMN -- Professor, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Distinguished University Teaching Professor, ADC/CSE Chair, AI-CLIMATE Institute Director, iHARP Co-PI For event link, please click the following URL to: https://lnkd.in/eu4NY2Cy

iHARP Hackathon Kickoff Event Success!! Kicking off the NSF HDR Machine Learning Challenge to Identify Anomalies in Challenges of Societal Importance, iHARP hosted a Hackathon at UMBC on November 22, 2024. Participants of the kickoff Hackathon had the opportunity to engage with three different data sets curated by three different NSF HDR Institutes. Challenge winners will get to showcase their work at a co-located workshop at the AAAI Conference in March 2025. Thank you to everyone who attended and participated in the Hackathon Kickoff Event and a special thanks to all those who provided support and guidance to participants throughout the event! Josephine Namayanja Aneesh Subramanian Subhankar Ghosh Bayu Adhi Tama Akila Sampath Francis Ndikum Nji SUDIP CHAKRABORTY Maloy Kumar Devnath Sai Vikas Amaraneni #NSF #NSFHDR #NSFFUNDED #Machinelearning #hackathon

Tolulope Ale and Maloy Kumar Devnath Kumar Devanth have been officially admitted to the Candidacy . On November 1, 2024, Tolulope Ale had the opportunity to participate in the time honored tradition of the UMBC Candidacy Ceremony marking a crucial milestone in the PhD journey. While unable to attend the ceremony, Maloy Kumar Devanth was out of town presenting his PhD research at the SIGSPATIAL 2024. Please join us in congratulating Tolulope and Maloy on achieving this monumental milestone! #iharp University of Maryland Baltimore County #phdcandidacy UMBC Department of Information Systems

UMBC High Performance Computing (HPC) Boot Camp Expanding iHARP and UMCES Research Capabilities To expand research capabilities, iHARP hosted a High Performance Computing (HPC) Bootcamp on November 12, 2024 led by iHARP Research Assistant Sai Vikas Amaraneni with support from DoIT members Roy Prouty, Philip Henry, Beamlak Bekele, and Max Breitmeyer. iHARP and UMCES CGC-SCIPE researchers were introduced to UMBC’s HPC resources and gained hands-on training in the Ada High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster. The bootcamp introduced fundamental concepts in Ada such as BASH basics, and environment setup for efficient research workflows, as well as managing jobs with SLURM. Attendees used a case study involving Patch-CNN for predicting sea ice extent in the Antarctic region (research project being presented at AGU this year), in order to understand the role of HPC in research boththrough single GPU and Multi-GPU training. We would like to thank Sai Vikas Amaraneni and DoIT members Roy Prouty, Phil Henry, Beamlak Bekele, and Max Breitmeyer for their support and dedication to furthering research capabilities in iHARP and UMCES. #iharp #umces #umbc #hpc #training #nsf #nsffunded #research

Maryland State Senator Sarah Elfreth visited the iHARP center at University of Maryland Baltimore County on October 22, 2024. During her visit, she engaged with researchers and learned about their groundbreaking work. While at the center, Senator Elfreth experienced the immersive Virtual Ice Museum, created through a collaboration between iHARP and the Imaging Research Center (IRC) at UMBC. This Virtual Ice Museum allows audiences to explore climate change research in a new immersive and interactive format through virtual reality (VR). We would like to thank the iHARP researchers who shared their work, as well as Ryan Zuber, the IRC Technical Director, for demonstrating the Virtual Ice Museum. We especially appreciate Senator Elfreth for taking the time from her busy schedule to meet with iHARP members and collaborators. #iharp #VirtualReality #UMBC #NSFfunded #NSF #NSFHDR #research #climatechange