Center for Dynamic Data Analytics (CDDA)

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Center for Dynamic Data Analytics (CDDA)
Inauguration meeting of the Industrial Advisory Board (IAB)
and Review of the Projects, November 16-17, 2011

Overview and Rationale

On November 16-17, 2011, the Center for Computational Biomedicine Imaging and Modeling (CBIM) with SUNY Stony Brook’s Visualization Group will host a day-and-a-half inauguration meeting of the IAB for current and prospective industrial members of the recently funded I/UCR Center for Dynanic Data Analytics. During the meeting, out team lead by Professors Dimitris Metaxas (Rutgers) and Arie Kaufman (SUNY, Stony Brook) will present their current and future research efforts that focus on dynamic and massive data analytics. The goals of the workshop are to provide proposed members with 1.) the vision and goals of the Center; 2.) to inform existing and proposed members about membership opportunities, benefits, and annual fees; 3.) to ascertain the level of interest by the proposed members in Center research activities; 4.) to develop, based on proposed member feedback forms, a pro-forma operating budget for the Center’s first 36 months of operation and 5) get guidance from the NSF personnel affiliated with the I/UCR program.

Workshop Organization

Perhaps the two most important outcomes of the meeting will be the determination of existing and proposed member interest and the pro-forma budget. In order to obtain this information, we will give representatives of each participating company a feedback online form (LIFE form) for each research presentation. The Life form will ask respondents to 1.) provide comments about the talk (e.g. ‘pros’ and ‘cons’) and 2.) rate the presentation in terms of research quality and funding interest (‘1’ being the highest and ‘5’ being the lowest). At the conclusion of the workshop, Professors Metaxas, Kaufman and Pavlovic, will review the feedback forms to ascertain the specific areas of research that interested the industrial members the most and to develop a final three-year operating budget for the Center.

The first day of the workshop we will focus on research presentations and informal discussions among the participants and the second day will focus on project selection, setting the Industrial Advisory Board and select a chairman. During the meeting all workshop participants exchange ideas about the organization of the Center, research foci, membership structure and benefits (specifically the type and amount of intellectual property to which members will have access dependent upon level of membership), and Center expansion. Below we have provided a proposed Schedule of Events.

Responsibilities of staff and presenters

The logistics and local activities needed to arrange for a proper venue for the workshop will be the responsibility of the Rutgers University administrative assistant under supervision of the PI Metaxas and help from co-PI Kaufman. The workshop sessions and meals will take place at the Rutgers, New Brunswick campus, CBIM Center, 617 Bowser Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, on November 16-17, 2011.

The draft agenda shown below includes tentative presenter assignments to each session. Project presentations will be made by faculty members, involved students and, if appropriate, collaborators from industry. All slide presentations will be duplicated and made available in advance to workshop participants.

Hotel and Travelling

Rooms are reserved at Holiday Inn, Somerset, NJ.

Agenda

Presentations

Posters