April 2021 - Sanghani-faculty - mailman.cs.vt.edu

REMINDER re: Information on student thesis/dissertation defenses
by Barbara Micale 26 Apr '21

26 Apr '21

Good morning, Just a reminder to please let us know about your master's and Ph.D. students' upcoming thesis/dissertation presentations as we would like to cover these on our Sanghani social media as we have in the past. - Student name - Advisor/committee members - Degree - Title of thesis/dissertation - Date/Time of defense Thanks for your help with this effort! blm Barbara L. Micale Public Relations Specialist <https://sanghani.cs.vt.edu/> Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data <https://sanghani.cs.vt.edu/> Virginia Tech blmicale(a)vt.edu

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Fwd: NASA Paid PhD Fellowship Opportunity in Applied ML, NLP, and Text Classification Research
by Shalaby, Wanawsha 16 Apr '21

16 Apr '21

FYI. From: "Ruffridge, Brandon J. (GRC-VE00)" <bruffridge(a)nasa.gov<mailto:bruffridge@nasa.gov>> Date: Thursday, April 15, 2021 at 4:40 PM To: Edward Fox <fox(a)vt.edu<mailto:fox@vt.edu>> Subject: NASA Paid PhD Fellowship Opportunity in Applied ML, NLP, and Text Classification Research Dear Dr. Fox, My name is Brandon Ruffridge. I work for NASA, and I’m leading a distributed team that is building PeTaL<https://github.com/nasa-petal> (the Periodic Table of Life), an open source artificial intelligence (AI) design tool that leverages data and information from nature and technology to advance biomimicry research and development. We are seeking a first or second year PhD student to participate in a 3 year paid research grant. We are looking for expertise in the field of machine learning and especially natural language processing and text classification. Our current area of focus is on developing a text classification algorithm that takes research papers as input and categorizes them using our predefined biomimetic taxonomy. This is a space with little training data available so novel approaches may be required. For more information about this opportunity and how to apply, please direct qualified, interested students to the attached, “MSI Fellowships Guide 2021.pdf”. Proposals are due May 24, 2021. Thank you for your consideration, Brandon Ruffridge Scientific Computing and Visualization Team<https://gvis.grc.nasa.gov/> OCIO<https://www.grc.nasa.gov/ocio> | NASA Glenn Research Center<https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/> | (216) 433-2887

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Sanghani Center Faculty Meeting - Friday, April 2 at 1:30 pm
by Shalaby, Wanawsha 02 Apr '21

02 Apr '21

Hi All, Our next Sanghani Center faculty meeting is scheduled for Friday, April 2 at 1:30 - 3:00 pm. Please let me know if you have any updates, you'd like to share in the meeting slides including any proposals, grants, awards, conferences, upcoming events, etc. Please send all updates by Wednesday, March 31. Below is the Zoom information for the meeting. Join Zoom Meeting https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/82603412395 Meeting ID: 826 0341 2395 One tap mobile +19294362866,,82603412395# US (New York) +13017158592,,82603412395# US (Washington DC) Dial by your location +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) Meeting ID: 826 0341 2395 Thanks, Wanawsha Wanawsha Shalaby Manager of Operations UrbComp Program Coordinator Sanghani Center for AI and Data Analytics - Virginia Tech 900 N. Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22203 Phone: (571) 858-3361 E-Mail: wanah92(a)vt.edu<mailto:wanah92@vt.edu>

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