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Data Science Course Development Program Awards

2022

  • Ashrant Aryal (Lead), Department of Construction Science; Applied Data Science for the Built Environment.
  • Scott A. Bruce (Lead), Department of Statistics; Lisa M. Perez, Department of High Performance Research Computing (HPRC); Computing Tools for Data Science.
  • Heng Cai (Lead), Department of Geography; Lei Zou, Department of Geography; Spatial Data Science: Advances and Applications.
  • Irfan Khan (Lead), Department of Marine Engineering Technology, Texas A&M University at Galveston; Data Science for Marine Cybersecurity.
  • Hui Liu (Lead), Department of Marine Biology, Texas A&M University at Galveston’ Advanced Methods for Environmental Data.
  • Jian Tao (Lead), Department of Visualization; Andre Thomas, Department of Visualization; Introduction to Digital Twins
  • Data Science Course Development Submissions

2021

  • Ulisses Braga-Neto (Lead),Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Scientific Machine Learning.
  • Fernando A. Luco Echeverría (Lead), Department of Economics; Data Science for Future Decision-Makers.
  • Simon Foucart (Lead), Department of Mathematics; Topics in Mathematical Data Science.
  • Ann McNamara (Lead), Department of Visualization; Derya Akleman, Department of Statistics; John Keyser, Department of Computer Science & Engineering; Data Visualization and Analytics.
  • Vincent VanBuren (Lead), Department of Medical Education; Machine Learning with Python for Medical Applications.
  • Xinyue Ye (Lead), Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning; Urban Data Science.
  • Shuang Zhang (Lead) & Darren W. Henrichs, Department of Oceanography; Applied Data Science in Geosciences.

Career Initiation Fellow Recipients

2021

  • Ashrant Aryal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Construction Science, College of Architecture, where he leads the Human-centered Intelligent Built Environments lab and works at the intersection of construction science and data science. As his TAMIDS engagement, Dr. Aryal plans to lead workshop on building sensing and data acquisition using open-source hardware with a focus on smart building applications.
  • Heath Blackmon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology, College of Science, where he develops computational methods to accelerate the analysis of data within a quantitative genetic or phylogenetic framework, in order to address fundamental questions arising in evolutionary theory. Dr. Blackmon will lead an interdisciplinary hackathon on phylogenetic comparative statistical methods that explore the relations between genetics, evolution, and ecology.
  • Dileep Kalathil is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, where his research focuses on reinforcement learning and its applications in large-scale real-world engineering settings such as power systems. Dr. Kalathil will pursue outreach to PK-12 students Sciences in Data Science, leveraging ideas and examples from Reinforcement Learning and AI.
  • David Lowe is an Assistant Professor and Digital Collections Management Librarian, Office of Scholarly Communications, University Libraries, where his work includes text mining and tools for document classification. He will develop a workshop on text mining and language processing with library collections.
  • Manoranjan Majji is an Assistant Professor in the Department Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering. where his research concerns data-driven modeling for control of autonomous system. Dr. Majji will organize a workshop on current trends and recent advances in data-driven dynamical systems in science and engineering.
  • Arash Noshadravan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, where his research concerns the intersection of uncertainty quantification and predictive computational science with several applications in civil engineering and computational mechanics. Dr. Noshadravan will develop a research workshop on uncertainty quantification and machine learning.
  • Daniel Tabor is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, College of Science, where his research focuses on problems combining machine learning, theoretical chemistry, and materials science. He plans to host a series of computational molecular design hackathons that aim to develop quick solutions to materials problems through physics-based machine learning models.
  • Na Zou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology & Industrial Distribution, College of Engineering, where her research concerns interpretability and fairness in machine learning, network modeling and inference, and brain informatics. Dr. Zou will develop a short course on fairness in AI.

Postdoctoral Project Program Awards

2020

  • Youngjib Ham (PI), Department of Construction Science, Theodora Chaspari (Co-PI), Computer Science & Engineering, Boosting Workplace Productivity; Data-driven Framework for Enhancing Occupant Environmental Comfort.
  • Matthias Katzfuss (PI), Department of Statistics, Sparse Approximation of Dense Kernel Matrices for Scalable Data Science.
  • Hye-Chung Kum (PI), Health Policy & Management, School of Public Health, Mark Fossett (Co-PI), Department of Sociology, Alva Ferdinand (Co-PI), Health Policy & Management, School of Public Health, Population Informatics: Data Science using Big Data about People in Social, Behavior, Economic,and Health Sciences.
  • Yang Ni (PI), Department of Statistics, Irina Gaynanova (Co-PI), Department of Statistics, Robert Chapkin (Co-PI), Department of Nutrition & Food Science, Raymond Carroll (Co-PI), Department of Statistics,  Studying Microbial Interactions and Host Heterogeneity via Data Integration.
  • Shahin Shahrampour (PI), Industrial & Systems Engineering, Shallow Networks in Over-Parametrized Regimes: Rethinking Bias-Variance Tradeoff.
  • Xiaoning Qian (PI), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Raymundo Arroyave (Co-PI), Materials Science & Engineering, Physics-Constrained Machine Learning for Intelligence Augmented Materials Discovery.

2019

  • Youngjib Ham (PI), Department of Construction Science, Theodora Chaspari (Co-PI), Computer Science & Engineering, Boosting Workplace Productivity; Data-driven Framework for Enhancing Occupant Environmental Comfort.
  • Matthias Katzfuss (PI), Department of Statistics, Sparse Approximation of Dense Kernel Matrices for Scalable Data Science.
  • Hye-Chung Kum (PI), Health Policy & Management, School of Public Health, Mark Fossett (Co-PI), Department of Sociology, Alva Ferdinand (Co-PI), Health Policy & Management, School of Public Health, Population Informatics: Data Science using Big Data about People in Social, Behavior, Economic,and Health Sciences.
  • Yang Ni (PI), Department of Statistics, Irina Gaynanova (Co-PI), Department of Statistics, Robert Chapkin (Co-PI), Department of Nutrition & Food Science, Raymond Carroll (Co-PI), Department of Statistics,  Studying Microbial Interactions and Host Heterogeneity via Data Integration.
  • Shahin Shahrampour (PI), Industrial & Systems Engineering, Shallow Networks in Over-Parametrized Regimes: Rethinking Bias-Variance Tradeoff.
  • Xiaoning Qian (PI), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Raymundo Arroyave (Co-PI), Materials Science & Engineering, Physics-Constrained Machine Learning for Intelligence Augmented Materials Discovery.

Data Science Resource Development Program Awards

2020

  • Raymundo Arroyave (PI), Department of Materials Science & EngineeringDevelopment of a Software Platform For Accelerated Microstructure Design: From Data Generation to Curation and Analysis.
  • Amir Behzadan (PI), Department of Construction Science, Theodora Chaspari (Co-PI),Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Preeti Zanwar (Collaborator): Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, CoFABS-Q: A dataset of face, body and speech cues in web-mined COVID-19 conversational vlogs.
  • James Cai (PI), Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, Enabling Single-Cell Data Resource to TAMU Investigators in Interdisciplinary Research.
  • Xia Ben Hu(PI), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, AutoAD: Exploiting Automated Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection.
  • Zhe Zhang (PI), Department of Geography, A Spatial Decision Support System for Cardiovascular Disease Risk Assessment in Response to the COVID-19 Crisis.
  • Lei Zou (PI)Department of Geography, Jian Tao (Co-PI), Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, Ali Mostafavi (Co-PI), Departmental of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tracking Social and Governmental Responses to Covid-19 Using Geospatial Big Data.

Graduate Travel Grant Presentations

  • Zhengyang Wang (Computer Science and Engineering, Advisor: Shuiwang Ji), SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2019), “Spatial Variational Auto-Encoding via Matrix-Variate Normal Distributions
  • Megnan Du (Computer Science and Engineering, Advisor: Ben Hu), IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2019), “Learning Credible Deep Neural Networks with Rationale Regularization
  • Hongyong Gao (Computer Science and Engineering, Advisor: Shuiwang Ji), International Confernece on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD 2019), “Graph Representation Learning via Hard and Channel-Wise Attention Networks
  • Imtiaz Ahmed (Industrial and Systems Engineering, Advisor: Yu Ding), IISE Annual Conference & Expo 2019, “Neighborhood Structure Assisted Non-negative Matrix Factorization and its Application in Unsupervised Point Anomaly Detection”.
  • Jeff Martin (Wildlife & Fisheries, Advisor: Perry Barboza), American Society of Mammologists (ASM) 2019, “Drought and temperature influence spatial and temporal variation in growth of North American Bison
  • Rachel Short (Ecosystem Science & Management, Advisor: Michelle Lawing), North American Paleontologist Convention (NAPC) 2019, “Community limb morphology of Artiodactyla as an environmental predictor”
  • Peter Ferguson (Physics and Astronomy, Advisor: Louis Strigari), RRL/CEP 2019- Frontiers of Classical Pulsators: Theory & Observations Conference 2019, “Three-dimensional structure of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal core from RR Lyrae”
  • Daniel Osario (Electrical & Computer Engineering, Advisor: James Cai), Algorithms and Models for Single Cell Genomics Workshop 2019, “Single-Cell Expression Variability Implies Cell Function
  • Jingjia Li (Ecosystem Science and Management, Advisor: Claudia Casola), The Society for Molecular Biology & Evolution Conference 2019, “Identifying promoter DNA regulatory motifs associated with drought related genes”
  • Megha Yadav (Computer Science and Engineering, Advisor: Theodora Chaspari), IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, 2019, “Speak Up! Studying the Interplay of Physiological Indices with Individual and Contextual Factors for Quantifying Public Speaking Anxiety”
  • Elham Nikbakht (Educational Psychology, Advisor: Fuhui Tong), TESOL International Conference, 2019, “Investigating the interplay of translanguaging on bilingual learners’ reading-to-write tasks
  • Anne Salvador (Molecular and Cellular Medicine, Advisor: David Threadgill), Training in Dr. Gudrun Brockman’s Lab in Berlin Germany

Software

  • Osorio, D., Cai, J. (2020), scTenifoldNet: Construct and Compare scGRN from Single-Cell Transcriptomic Data https://cran.r-project.org/package=scTenifoldNet
  • Osorio, D., Cai, J. (2020), scTenifoldKnk: In-Silico Knockout Experiments from Single-Cell Gene Regulatory Networks https://cran.r-project.org/package=scTenifoldKnk

Talks

  • Hee Cheol Chung (2020), Phylogenetically informed Bayesian truncated copula graphical models for microbial association networks, International conference CMStatistics, Dec 20, 2020 
  • J. Cai (2020), 3rd Workshop on Computational Advances for Single-Cell Omics Data Analysis (CASCODA 2020), 12/10/2020
  • J. Cai (2020), 7th NCHU GEAR UP forum, 12/3/2020
  • J. Cai (2020), TAMU-NCHU research forum, 11/29/2020
  • J. Cai (2020), 1st Annual Gulf Coast Consortia (GCC) Single Cell Omics Cluster Symposium,10/8/2020
  • J. Cai (2020), EUSTM-2020 on COVID-19 – 7th Annual Congress of the European Society for Translational Medicine on Covid-19, 9/25/2020

Publications

  • Attari, Vahid, Pejman Honarmandi, Thien Duong, Daniel J. Sauceda, Douglas Allaire, and Raymundo Arroyave. Uncertainty propagation in a multiscale CALPHAD-reinforced elasto-chemical phase-field model. Acta Materialia 183 (2020): 452-470.
  • Feng K., Zanwar P., Behzadan A.H., Chaspari T (2020), Exploring Speech Cues in Web-mined COVID-19 Conversational Vlogs, Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Aesthetic and Technical Quality Assessment of Multimedia and Media Analytics for Societal Trends (ATQAM/MAST’20), 28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Seattle, WA: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3423268.3423584
  • Osorio, D., Cai, J. (2020), Systematic determination of the mitochondrial proportion in human and mice tissues for single-cell RNA sequencing data quality controlBioinformatics. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa751
  • Osorio, D., Zhong, Y., Li, G., Huang, J., Cai, J. (2020) scTenifoldNet: a machine learning workflow for constructing and comparing transcriptome-wide gene regulatory networks from single-cell data. Patterns. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2020.100139
  • Kevin Feng, Preeti Zanwar, Amir H. Behzadan, Theodora Chaspari, Exploring Speech Cues in Web-mined COVID-19 Conversational Vlogs, ACM Multimedia workshop on Media Analytics for Societal Trends (MAST), 2020.

Past Programs

Research Workshop Grants Program

Instructional Workshop and Tutorial Program

Past Seminars and Lectures

TRIPODS Distinguished Lectures (one lecture per semester)

Materials from Past Events