Dear Northeast Hub Community,

As new program activities launch under our second phase of NSF funding, we are delighted to welcome new community members to our leadership team who will help guide the Hub forward, and to thank those whose service has helped us reach this point. Following a search made by our project team last month, we are pleased to welcome John Goodhue of the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, Carsten Eickhoff of Brown University, and Laura Dietz of the University of New Hampshire to our Steering Committee. The Steering Committee plays an active role in advancing the mission of the Hub and broadly represents the interests of Hub stakeholders, and our new members bring a wealth of experience to their roles. Learn more about their backgrounds at our leadership page, and please join us in welcoming them to the team.

We also thank our current Steering Committee members whose terms are concluding. Vasant Honavar and Andrew McCallum have both provided outstanding commitment to the Northeast Big Data Hub, with each of them serving on the Steering Committee since our first phase. Both will continue as co-PIs on our NSF award #1916585, and Vasant will additionally transition in a new role representing the Northeast Big Data Hub on the National Coordinating Committee. Many thanks to both for their leadership and guidance.

As part of our second phase, the Hub will administer an annual Seed Fund of $250,000 to support community activities in data science. We are pleased to announce that David Bader of NJIT has agreed to serve as our Inaugural Seed Fund Steering Committee Chair, and is working with the Executive Director's Office on a search for committee members. We look forward to sharing more details on the Seed Fund in the coming months.

On behalf of the Hub, many thanks to all of our leadership and constituents, for everything you do. You make our community stronger.

Sincerely,

NSF has awarded a $200,000 RAPID COVID grant to PI Jeannette Wing for the creation of a COVID Information Commons website to facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration across various COVID research efforts, beginning with NSF-funded COVID Rapid Response Research (RAPID) projects. This is multi-institutional effort led by the Northeast Hub in close collaboration with the Midwest, South, and West Hubs. The COVID Information Commons will serve as a valuable resource for researchers as well as decision-makers from government, academia, not-for-profit, and industry to ingest and digest the RAPID COVID award information, enabling collaboration and acceleration of the most promising research to mitigate the broad societal impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Click here to read more about this award.

The Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics invite researchers to submit papers for the 2020 Foundations of Data Science Conference, which aims to address foundational data science challenges in prediction, inference, fairness, ethics, and the future of data science through interdisciplinary efforts. The deadline for submissions is May 15, 2020, and the conference will take place October 18-20, 2020, in Seattle, Washington.

Click here for more information about the conference and submission rules.

Visit http://nebigdatahub.org/covid19/ for updated COVID-19 research funding opportunities, datasets, networks, virtual events, and other resources.

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