Industry and Government
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PEPI-G: Program to Empower Partnership with Industry and Government
PEPI-G Program 2020 | Applications Open March 1 - April 1
The Program to Empower Partnerships with Industry and Government (PEPI-G) supports data faculty members, research scientists, postdocs, and graduate and undergraduate students from across the country in working on high level problems for the federal government. PEPI-G fellows will work with our 2020 partner, DHS-ARPA, using data science to fight human trafficking, discover best practices for IoT analytics that inform human decision making, or on other relevant projects Fellows may propose. Fellowships with DHS-ARPA will last 3, 4, 5, 6 months beginning either in the summer or the fall based on approval. PEPI-G
The Program to Empower Partnerships with Industry allows early career professionals to visit industries in order to kick-start new collaborations and research.
2019 PEPI-G Fellows Selected
Two fellows were selected for the 2019 cycle of the PEPI-G Program. The Program to Empower Partnerships with Industry and Government (PEPI-G) supports faculty members, research scientists, postdocs, and graduate and undergraduate students (rising juniors and seniors as of 2019) from the 16 states that comprise the South Hub. DataStart [Archived Program]
The Southern Startup Internship Program in Data Science allows graduate students in good standing at accredited universities from the South region the opportunity to work with host data-related startup companies on data-intensive business challenges important to the company. PEPI Builds Bridges Between Industry and Researchers
The South Big Data Hub’s Program to Empower Partnerships with Industry (PEPI) pairs early-career faculty and researchers throughout the South with Industry Partners and support their travel to make collaboration possible. Earth observation and citizen science workshop video materials now available
The proliferation of mobile devices and low-cost sensors has enabled citizens to collect timely geospatial information and contribute to scientific research and fieldwork that addresses locally relevant, global environmental issues, including disaster management, food security, and climate change. This collaborative exchange, in which citizens as well as scientists and policymakers, actively participate in the creation of new scientific knowledge, is called citizen science to contribute, together with scientists and policymakers, to address locally relevant, global environmental issues, including disaster management, food security, and climate change. This collaborative exchange, in which citizens are active participants in the co-creation of new scientific knowledge, is known as Citizen Science. If you missed the citizen science workshop or want to review the content that was presented there, SWF has posted the workshop agenda, video and links to the slides of presenters. Mobile Health Workshop sparks ideas for future research
Participant recap of the mHealth Workshop, held in Chapel Hill, NC in May 2017. The workshop was supported by the South Big Data Hub and the National Consortium for Data Science (NCDS). Wenbin Zhang is a first-year PhD student in the department of information systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He attended the South Big Data Hub/NCDS Mobile Health Workshop in May with travel support from the South Hub. Can wearable devices lead to better health outcomes?
Reflections on the South BD Hub mHealth Workshop in May 2017. Chenzhang Bao was a student at the University of Texas at Dallas majoring in information systems. He was one of several students who the South Big Data Hub supported to attend an mHealth Workshop in May. The Conference was held in Chapel Hill and sponsored by the South Big Data Hub and the National Consortium for Data Science in collaboration with the Institute for the Future. The 2017 All Hands Meeting of the South Big Data Hub
On Friday, June 9, 2017, more than 75 people from across sectors and disciplines—academia, government, nonprofits, and industry—met at the Microsoft Chevy Chase Pavilion near Washington, DC, to assess the progress of the South Big Data Hub, and shape its future.The recent 2017 South Hub All-Hands meeting allowed several Hub stakeholders, members, partners, and funded projects, called “spokes,” to convene and report on progress and upcoming activities. It also was a forum for members to connect with colleagues across disciplines to form collaborations as new hopefuls for the next round of "spokes" funding. Vire the post to learn more about the meeting, speakers, and outcomes. Separating the wheat from the chaff in an age of bots and trolls
In the age of ubiquitous connectivity and social media, information is at our fingertips. Unfortunately, so is misinformation and often it is hard to tell one from the other.
A recent roundtable discussion sponsored by the South Big Data Hub examined the rapidly changing landscape for building online communities, sharing information, and creating what often appears to be a groundswell of support for particular points of view.