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Machine Learning Meetup Group Workshop Saturday 1/20/18

CCS is excited to host the Machine Learning Meetup Group for a hands-on workshop on extracting information from scientific publication metadata. Join us on Saturday, January 20th, for a deep dive into a subset of the Semantic Scholar dataset: labs.semantic scholar.org/corpus, which represents papers in computer science, neuroscience and biomedical sciences. The meetup will start with an open discussion of the types of questions that...

Pizza Seminar Series on Using Data Ensembles Wednesday 11/30/2016

This is another in the Department of Computer Science Pizza Seminar Series. "Exploring the Potential of Data Depth for Uncertainty Characterization and Visualization of Ensembles" Wednesday, November 30th 2016, 5:00 p.m., UB230 by Dr. Mahsa Mirzargar, Department of Computer Science, University of Miami. When computational models or predictive simulations are used, researchers, analysts and decision makers are not...

CDD and CCS receive NIH SBIR Award

Collaborative Drug Discovery (CDD) and researchers at the Center for Computational Science of the University of Miami received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) (Small Business Innovation Research) SBIR Award to develop novel assay annotation technology for the CDD Vault leveraging our BioAssay Ontology (BAO). The project leads at UM are Dr. Stephan Schurer, Lead Cheminformatics Scientist at CCS and Dr. Ubbo Visser, Associate...

RoboCanes Place 2nd in International Robot Soccer Competition

Saminda Abeyruwan, Justin Stoecker, Andreas Seekircher, and Professor Ubbo Visser accept their trophy at the RoboCup in Mexico City. The College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Computer Science RoboCanes team recently placed 2nd in 3D soccer simulation at the RoboCup 2012 in Mexico City. RoboCanes competed against 13 teams from 11 countries in the event, placing 2nd behind a team from the University of Texas at Austin. Ubbo...

Qiong Cheng, PhD

[tab:Summary] Research Analyst Dr. Qiong Cheng joined the University of Miami’s Center for Computational Science in February 2014. Dr. Cheng graduated from Georgia State University in December 2009 with a PhD in Computer Science. Upon graduating, She spent a little over a year training in CCS and then began work as a researcher with the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Cheng's...