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Presentation at CHMPR IAB Meeting May 26, 2010 yeyesha@umbc

UMBC Participation in CHMPR by Professor Yelena Yesha, UMBC site director. Presentation at CHMPR IAB Meeting May 26, 2010 yeyesha@umbc.edu. What is UMBC. The University of Maryland Baltimore County 2009 Newsweek #1 Up and Coming

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Presentation at CHMPR IAB Meeting May 26, 2010 yeyesha@umbc

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  1. UMBC Participation in CHMPR by Professor Yelena Yesha, UMBC site director Presentation at CHMPR IAB Meeting May 26, 2010 yeyesha@umbc.edu

  2. What is UMBC • The University of MarylandBaltimore County • 2009 Newsweek #1 Up and Coming • One of the three research campusesin the University of Maryland System • UMBC’s President Freeman Hrabowski is in Time Magazine’s list of 10 Best College Presidents, 2010. • Has 700 full-time, 300 part-time faculty; 12K undergraduate and 3K graduate students • Located in suburban Baltimore County, between Baltimore and Washington DC. • Special focus on science, engineering, information technology and public policy with > $100M in external research funding in 2008 • No football team, 8 time champion chess team

  3. CSEE @ UMBC Computer Science & ElectricalEngineering • UMBC’s largest department with 45 faculty,~1000 undergrad, ~200 grad students • Degree programs (graduate and undergraduate) • Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering • Among research universities, UMBC is #1 in BS CS production and #18 in PhD production • Many institutes, centers and labs • Institute for Language and Information Technology, Center for Information Security and Assurance, Center for Photonics, Lab For Advanced Information Technology, VLSI Lab, CADIP, … • Breadth and focus in research areas • ~ $6M/year in sponsored research from Government and Industry • Pervasive computing, AI, security, information retrieval, graphics, databases, VLSI, …

  4. CHMPR @ UMBC • UMBC Offers: • Hybrid Multicore Hardware • bluegrit.umbc.edu • Diverse Research Strengths • Access to graduate and undergraduate students • Strong existing relationships with potential sponsors in government and industry • Benefits to UMBC include: • Access to larger computational resources • Collaboration with other universities • Ability to embark on projects at a larger scale • Interaction and outreach programs

  5. Goals of CHMPR @ UMBC • Advance the computational and service training of university students, faculty and partners in multicore technologies. • Establish UMBC as world-wide center of competence in multicore computing education. • Create forum for active engagements between industry and academia to shape future developments in multicore technologies. • Provide internship and career opportunities for students to engage with industry in projects of relevance to the environment, aerospace, business intelligence, and medical research.

  6. Diverse Research Strengths • Hybrid Multicore Computing • Medical Informatics • Security/Trust/Privacy • Satellite Information Processing • Environmental Modeling • Cloud Computing • Social Media • Interactive Situational Awareness

  7. UMBC’s CHMPR Members Government National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) NSA Laboratory for Telecommunication Sciences Industry IBM Northrup Grumman Information Systems (NGIS) Small Business Innovim

  8. Additional Contacts • Current collaborations: • Florida International University and Florida Atlantic University (Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement CAKE) • CORBI Proposal with Prof. N. Rishe, B. Fuhrt • Tarek El Ghazawi, CHREC, • Technion Institute of Technology, Haifa Prof. E. Karnielli • Potential Members: • NSA/Lab for Physical Sciences • DHS • SAP • Lockheed Martin • Raytheon • CSC • Oracle • FDA, • NIST Manufacturing Div. • UMMS/Institute of Genomics

  9. Faculty Tim Finin, PhD Professor of Computer Science Semantic web, AI, social media, language technology,security, Anupam Joshi, PhD Professor of Computer Science Intelligent systems, social media, mobile/pervasivecomputing, networking, systems, security and privacy Yelena Yesha, PhD Professor of Computer Science Trusted information systems, intelligent informationsystems, multicore computing Yun Peng, PhD Professor of Computer Science Neural networks, reasoning with uncertainty, semantic web,ontologies, electronic commerce, expert systems,

  10. Faculty Milton Halem, PhD Research Professor of Computer Science High performance computing, scientific computing,cloud computing, systems John Dorband, PhD Associate Research Professor of Computer Science High performance computing, scientific computing,cloud computing, systems, computer architecture Michael Grasso, PhD, MD Assistant Research Professor of Computer Science U. of Maryland School of Medicine Clinical Instructorof Emergency Medicine Medical informatics, bioinformatics, human-computer interfaces Dr. Shujia Zhou Research associate professor of Computer Science High performance computing, scientific computing

  11. Students • J. Avery • T. Blattner • D. Chapman • D. Dalvi • A. Lahane • C. Lohr • R. Mahat • J. Martineau • P. Nguyen • L. Sebald • S. Yang • F. Zafar • C. Zellhofer

  12. CHMPR Projects @ UMBC • NOAA- Operational weather forecasting using GPUs • S. Zhou (PI), L. Sebald (graduate student) • Sponsor: NOAA/NCEP, Start date: 1 Sep 2009 • Distributed Cloud Computing • M. Halem (PI), D. Chapman & P. Nguyen (grad students) • Sponsor: NSA/LTS, Start date: 1 Sep 2009 • Runtime Malware detection architectures • J. Dorband (PI), Ya. Yesha (PI), • F. Zafar (grad student) • Sponsor: NGIS, Start Date: 30 Aug 2009

  13. Projects (continued) • Fundamental IR Decadal Change Data Record. • M. Halem (PI), D. Chapman & P. Nguyen (grad students) • Sponsor: IBM, Start date: 1 Sep 2009 • Hybrid OpenCL scalable computing • S. Zhou (PI), F. Zafar (graduate student) • Sponsor: IBM, Start date: 1 Sep 2009 • Hybrid Computing for Environmental Modeling • S. Zhou (PI), A. Lahane (grad student) • Sponsor: IBM, Start Date: 1 Feb 2010

  14. Projects (continued) • Data Assimilation in Infosphere Streams with applications to real-time wildfire and smoke detection and monitoring • K. Kalpakis (PI), Ya. Yesha (PI); S. Yang (Grad Student). • Sponsor: IBM, Start date: 1 Sep 2009 • Cell Image Classification • Ye. Yesha (PI), Co-PI’s: M. Grasso, A. Joshi, T. Finin, Ya. Yesha, M. Halem. • Sponsor: NIST, Start date: 1 Sep 2009

  15. Products • AIRS Infrared Hyperspectral 8‐year gridded data set • MODIS High‐resolution selected months of gridded data • Acquired and installed 16‐TB Parallel Virtual Storage File System • Implemented a cloud computing environment based on Apache open‐source Hadoop Publications • 1 journal paper: • 2010: C. Tilmes, Ye. Yesha, M. Halem, “Tracking Provenance of Earth Science Data”, submitted to Earth Science Informatics • 10 conference papers

  16. CHMPR Educational Contributions • Service Oriented Computing: CMSC 691S • Prof. M. Halem • Students: enrolled, 23 completed 21. • Multicore Programming: CMSC 491/691 • Prof. S. Zhou • Students: enrolled 34 and completed 22 • Operating Systems: CMSC 421 • Prof.’s Ye Yesha & J. Dorband • Students: 35 • Intro to Extreme Parallel Computing: CMSC 691/491 • Prof. J. Dorband • Students: 12

  17. Thank You!

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