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Who We Are

Business, research, government, and individuals now create digital data at an unprecedented pace. However, the great challenge is how to harness these large, complex data sets and research findings into economic growth and positive impacts on people and communities. The South Big Data Hub accelerates partnerships among people in business, academia, and government who apply data science and analytics to help solve regional and national challenges.

The South Hub is part of a network of four regional Big Data Hubs, launched by the National Science Foundation and funded in part by host universities and other partners. Managed jointly by the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the South Hub serves 16 states and the District of Columbia—from Texas to Delaware—with more than 1000 members from universities, corporations, foundations, and cities committing their support.

 

 

What We Do

Data Science Education and Workforce

The South Hub supports multiple education and workforce programs, engaging across all of the hub’s activities to create resources and map assets pertaining to data science education.

Data Sharing and Cyberinfrastructure

The South Hub supports open discussion around cyberinfrastruture best practices and facilitates access for the South region and beyond to cyberinfrastructure resources.

Advancing Science and Addressing Societal Challenges

The South Hub continues to advance science and address societal challenges, with a unifying focus on challenges and opportunities important to the South.

Connecting and Mobilizing the Hub Community

The South Hub continues to accelerate academic, industry, and community stakeholder engagement in big data and data science. The hub maintains a commitment to enabling networking and dialogue among stakeholders to assess needs and increase the sharing of success stories, lessons learned, and best practices.

 

Who We Serve

Our Team

Renata Rawlings-Goss
Renata Rawlings-Goss
Executive Director, Georgia Institute of Technology

Dr. Renata Rawlings-Goss is the co-Executive Director of the South Big Data Regional Innovation Hub, who’s vision is to support universities, industry, and government in creating productive partnerships around Big Data, Data Science and the “Internet of Things”. One of only four federally funded Big Data Hubs in the nation, the South Hub services Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Texas.

Formerly, she was with the National Science Foundation in the directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE-OAD) working on the Big Data research program, as well as Big Data policies and priority goals for the foundation. She worked with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to create the National Data Science Organizers Group, which facilitates data science groups to address national “Grand Challenge” problems. She sat on the NITRD interagency Big Data Senior Steering group charged with strategic planning for Big Data research funded by the federal government.

Dr. Rawlings-Goss is a biophysicist where her research interests include data-driven analysis of genetic/expression variation among worldwide human populations.

Shannon McKeen
Shannon McKeen
Deputy Director, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Mr. McKeen has a strong background in consulting in interim senior management roles for companies restructuring in the textiles space. He is an Instructor in Kenan-Flagler’s online MBA program and in the Undergraduate Business program at  Wake Forest. Shannon has 20 years of executive experience in sales, marketing and general management, with extensive expertise in growth strategies, new products and brand rejuvenation. As an entrepreneur Shannon has worked with start-up companies and with new divisions of larger companies. His work has included starting ecommerce sites in the US and China and raising capital for medical products companies. He serves on the Fryeburg Academy Board of Trustees and the City of Winston-Salem Budget Advisory Council. He is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and the North Carolina Inception Micro Angel Fund.

Srinivas Aluru
Srinivas Aluru
PI, Georgia Institute of Technology

Dr. Aluru is a PI of the South Big Data Hub, a co-Executive Director of the Georgia Tech Interdisciplinary Research Institute (IRI) in Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS), a professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering within the College of Computing, and an adjunct professor in the school of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Aluru conducts research in high-performance computing, large-scale data analysis, bioinformatics and systems biology, combinatorial scientific computing, and applied algorithms. He pioneered the development of parallel methods in bioinformatics and systems biology and contributed to the assembly of genomes and metagenomes, next-generation sequencing bioinformatics, and gene network inference and analysis. His contributions in scientific computing lie in parallel fast multipole method, domain decomposition methods, spatial data structures, and applications in computational electromagnetics and materials informatics.

Stanley Ahalt
PI, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dr. Stan Ahalt is the Director of the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) at UNC-Chapel Hill. As Director, he leads a team of research scientists, software and network engineers, data science specialists, and visualization experts who work closely with faculty research teams at UNC, Duke, and NC State as well as with partners across the country. RENCI’s role is to provide enabling cyberinfrastructure to these research collaborations, which entails working on the challenges of data management, sharing, integration, and security. Dr. Ahalt is also a Professor in the UNC Computer Science Department and the Associate Director of the Informatics and Data Science (IDSci) Service in the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute (NC TraCS), UNC’s CTSA award. Dr. Ahalt earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Clemson University and has over 30 years of experience in high-performance computing, signal processing, and pattern recognition.

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