BIG DATA REGIONAL INNOVATION HUBS& SPOKES Overview of the Program for the AI Community Fen Zhao Nov 18, 2016 1 National Science Foundation
KEY TAKEAWAYS 01 01 THE THE PR PROGRAM OGRAM Brings together domain scientists, computer scientists, and end users to use data to solve challenges 03 PARTICIP 03 ICIPATION ION AI is a critical part of accelerating science and innovation using Big 02 02 THE THE ST STAKEHOLDE AKEHOLDERS Dat Encourages collaborations with industry, state & local governments, non profits, and others that are not typical NSF participants 2 National Science Foundation
WHAT IS THE HISTORY BEHIND BDHUBS? The National Big Data R&D Initiative & Data to Knowledge to Action (Data2Action) Launch Data2Action MAR NOV OSTP and NITRD Agencies 90 organizations announce 29 new Big Data 2012 2013 (lead by NSF) kick off the partnerships supported by $100M in non-federal funds National Big Data R&D Initiative with new federal programs totaling $200M Partnerships Bear Fruit JUN Partnerships update NITRD on 2014 midterm outcomes from announced projects BDHubs MAR NSF initiates BDHubs 2015 Big Data Partnerships Workshop effort to sustain and MAY Industry, academia, and government scale up collaborative 2013 representatives gathered to learn about Big Data innovation current Big Data partnership and activities brainstorm new ideas 3 National Science Foundation
WITHIN THE BIG DATA PORTFOLIO OF PROGRAMS Within the broader portfolio, BD Hubs and BD Spokes focuses on building partnerships around Big Data RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE Critical Techniques & Data Infrastructure Technologies for … Building Blocks Big Data (BIGDATA) (DIBBS) PARTNERSHIPS EDUCATION Big Data Regional National Research Innovation Hubs: Traineeship (NRT) Spokes (BD Spokes) 4 National Science Foundation
THE HISTORY BEHIND BD SPOKES BD Spokes is the second phase of a long term NSF agenda for Big Data Partnerships BD Hubs Launched Hubs Proposals Submitted MAR JUN BD Hubs solicitation to fund Large collaborative proposals submitted to NSF 2015 2015 four regional Hubs is released Hubs Awards Made SEPT Awards made to coordinating 2015 institutions BD Spokes NOV BD Spokes solicitation 2015 Big Data Regional Charrettes Held released before 5 th DC APR Industry, academia, and government national charrette 2015 representatives gathered in four charrettes (bdhubs.info) around the country 5 National Science Foundation
Alaska & Hawaii are part of the West region NORTHEAST 106 Personnel US Territories can participate in any region 79 Organizations MIDWEST 193 Personnel 12 states 99 Institutions 9 States UW (PI) UND(co-PI) U of M (co-PI) Iowa State (co-PI) Columbia (PI) Berkeley (PI) Indiana U (co-PI) UIUC/NCSA (PI) UNC/RENCI (PI) UCSD/SDSC (PI) WEST Georgia Tech (PI) University 86 Personnel HPC Center 47 Organizations Non-profit 13 States Government SOUTH Industry BD Hubs 116 Personnel 95 Organizations Founding organizations for BDHubs in 2015 15 States + DC Points indicate affiliations of individuals named as steering council members and/or task leads or senior personnel. 6 National Science Foundation
The strategy behind BD SPOKES BD Spokes are not your typical R&D project nor are they mini Hubs 7 7 National Science Foundation
MISSION DRIVEN SPOKES BD Spokes proposals must articulate a clear focus within a specific Big Data topic or application area, while highlighting their Big Data Innovation theme. All BD Spokes must have clearly defined mission statements with goals and corresponding metrics of success. 8 National Science Foundation
SPOKES MAJOR SPOKES TO DIRECTLY THEMES ADDRESS Three different ways of slicing the Big Data Innovation problem 9 National Science Foundation
AREAS OF EMPHASIS Some NSF priority areas include NEUROSCIENCE REPLICABILITY & SMART & REPRODUCABILITY CONNECTED IN DATA SCIENCE COMMUNITIES DATA PRIVACY DATA INTENSIVE EDUCATION RESEARCH IN THE SOCIAL, BEHAVIORAL, & ECONOMIC SCIENCES 10 National Science Foundation
Alaska & Hawaii are part of the West region US Territories can participate in any region MIDWEST NORTHEAST WEST BD Spokes: SOUTH Phase 1 Planning Grant Lead Planning Grant Non-lead Includes lead and non-lead institutions for Spokes and Planning Grants Spoke Lead Spoke Non-Lead or Subaward 11 National Science Foundation
IBM WATSON + ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE “Using Big Data for Environmental Sustainability: Big Data + AI Technology = Accessible, Usable, Useful Knowledge!” Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is the world's largest database of biological species and other biodiversity information. EOL also works closely with scores of other biodiversity datasets such as BISON, GBIF, and OBIS. This project seeks to make EOL and related biodiversity data sources accessible, usable, and useful, by integrating extant artificial intelligence tools for information extraction, modeling and simulation, and question answering. (1) Cognopsi : semantically annotate documents in EOL through controlled vocabularies for specific domains within ecological and environmental science (2) MILA-S : constructs conceptual models of ecological phenomena and automatically spawns simulation models; use with EOL TraitBank, to generate and test explanatory hypotheses as well as make predictions about ecosystems Georgia Tech & (3) Watson+: adds semantic processing to Watson to act as a virtual research assistant; will train Watson+ for answering Smithsonian Institution questions about biological species using EOL. Lead Proposal: 1636848 12
KEY TAKEAWAYS 01 01 THE THE PR PROGRAM OGRAM Brings together domain scientists, computer scientists, and end users to use data to solve challenges 03 PARTICIP 03 ICIPATION ION AI is a critical part of accelerating science and innovation using Big 02 02 THE THE ST STAKEHOLDE AKEHOLDERS Dat Encourages collaborations with industry, state & local governments, non profits, and others that are not typical NSF participants 13 National Science Foundation
FOR FURTHER QUESTIONS CONTACT Fen Zhao, fzhao@nsf.gov 703 292 7344 NSF Headquarters, Arlington VA 14 National Science Foundation
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