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ern states,” said Srinivas Aluru, Georgia Tech’s lead principal investi- gator and professor in the School of Computational Science and Engi- neering. “Data science touches all as- pects of the human experience and the Hub will enable us to bring data together in a complementary way for better problem solving in our com- munities. It already is initiating new collaboration and dialogue among many large stakeholders in a way that would not have happened other- wise.”
Each of the NSF BD Hubs will
engage businesses and research or- ganizations in their region to develop common big data goals that would be impossible for individual members to achieve alone. The Hubs will develop community-driven governance struc- tures as well as “spoke projects” based on regional priorities and part- nerships. “The important problems of our
time — from solving disparities in health care to understanding the risks of coastal storms and floods — nvolve making sense of massive amounts of data,” said Ashok Krishnamurthy, deputy director at RENCI and co-PI with Aluru on the South BD Hub proj- ect. “The chance to lead this project with Georgia Tech means we will be at the forefront of using data for the pub- lic good.” The South BD Hub will serve
the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louis - iana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. It will be developed in three phases: an initial bootstrap phase that will establish the basic gover- nance structure; a transitional phase that will move toward an operational structure; and a final operational phase. It will have dual locations in Atlanta and the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina, with co- executive directors who will be ac-
December, 2015 Big Data Regional Hub....
countable to Hub partners. Initial spokes of the South BD
Hub will aim to apply big data analy- sis to scientific and social issues in five areas:
Health Care, including disparities in health, access to health care, and health outcomes, precision medicine, and health analytics.
Coastal Hazards, including under- standing and mitigating the conse- quences of natural and manmade disasters.
Industrial Big Data, including cy- ber-physical systems, the Internet of Things, data-driven management of physical infrastructure, and power generation, transmission, and distri- bution from a variety of sources.
Materials and Manufacturing, including data-driven contributions to the materials genome initiative and bridging the gap between mate- rials science and manufacturing practice.
Habitat Planning, including urban infrastructure, smart cities efforts, transportation, rural-urban infra- structure, and wildlife habitat and conservation.
Aluru said Georgia Tech will
host national data repositories and provide big data transfer capabilities through Southern Crossroads (SoX), a non-profit founded by Georgia Tech and partners and recognized as one the highest-bandwidth Internet gate- ways in the South-connecting 21 member institutions and universi- ties. Georgia Tech also is preparing to build a multi-story, 750,000- square-foot building in the heart of Atlanta devoted to data science and high-performance computing for cen- tralized collaboration among indus- try, academia and government. Through existing assets such as SoX and planned infrastructure under- way, Georgia Tech will provide what it calls unprecedented regional and national connectivity. The South BD Hub team will put to use lessons learned in develop-
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