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Sanghani Center Faculty Meeting - Friday, April 1 at 12 pm
by Shalaby, Wanawsha 01 Apr '22

01 Apr '22

Hi All, Our next Sanghani Center Faculty meeting is scheduled for Friday, April 1 at 12:00 - 1:30 pm. If you have any recent news or updates since our last faculty meeting, please send them my way so that I may add them into our meeting slides. Updates include awards, proposals, grants, conference presentations, events etc. Please send all updates by Wednesday, March 30. Below is the Zoom information for our meeting. Join Zoom Meeting https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/81630978632 Meeting ID: 816 3097 8632 One tap mobile +13126266799,,81630978632# US (Chicago) +19294362866,,81630978632# US (New York) Dial by your location +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) 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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Faculty candidate Michael Correll - Tues Apr 5
by Chris North 29 Mar '22

29 Mar '22

Please sign up to meet our final (!?!) CS faculty candidate Michael Correll https://correll.io <https://correll.io/> Seminar: https://cs.vt.edu/News/Seminars/Michael_Correll.html <https://cs.vt.edu/News/Seminars/Michael_Correll.html> Avoiding Data Visualization Disasters Meeting sign up: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Wprr42li0gBs7LOxjSvuOd5Wwgu0tDjib-e… <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Wprr42li0gBs7LOxjSvuOd5Wwgu0tDjib-e…> thanks, -Chris

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HCAI Workshop this week
by Chris North 23 Mar '22

23 Mar '22

Workshop: Human-Centered AI for Research, Innovation, and Creativity: Creating Connections across Disciplines Thurs & Fri this week https://docs.google.com/document/d/14rCmBOyB5ReNwBRRU1O4LNXs7d5yolh4fHYB_3G… <https://docs.google.com/document/d/14rCmBOyB5ReNwBRRU1O4LNXs7d5yolh4fHYB_3G…>

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Fwd: DDREAM flyer distribution
by Shalaby, Wanawsha 23 Mar '22

23 Mar '22

FYI. ________________________________ From: Brian Mayer <bmayer(a)cs.vt.edu> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2022 1:15 PM To: Shalaby, Wanawsha <wanah92(a)vt.edu> Subject: Fwd: DDREAM flyer distribution Wanawsha can you forward to the Sanghani faculty and student list? ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Min Wang <minwang(a)vt.edu<mailto:minwang@vt.edu>> Date: Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 10:01 AM Subject: DDREAM flyer distribution To: DADS-all <dads-all-g(a)vt.edu<mailto:dads-all-g@vt.edu>> Our next DDREAM series is this Friday 3/25/2022, 12-1pm. For this session, the topic is "The Dog Aging Project", presented by Dr. Audrey Ruple from the Department of Population Health Sciences in the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech. Please help distributing the attached flyer. Zoom link for this seminar is also added. Thank you, Min Min Wang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, VTC School of Medicine Virginia Tech -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DADS-all" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dads-all-g+unsubscribe(a)vt.edu<mailto:dads-all-g+unsubscribe@vt.edu>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/vt.edu/d/msgid/dads-all-g/3a265b3e-06a4-43ea-ac…<https://groups.google.com/a/vt.edu/d/msgid/dads-all-g/3a265b3e-06a4-43ea-ac…>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/a/vt.edu/d/optout. -- Brian Mayer bmayer(a)cs.vt.edu<mailto:bmayer@cs.vt.edu> 540-231-5907 Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics<https://sanghani.cs.vt.edu/> - Virginia Tech<https://vt.edu/>

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Updated invitation: Sanghani Center Faculty Meeting @ Fri Apr 1, 2022 12pm - 1:30pm (EDT) (sanghani-faculty@cs.vt.edu)
by Wanawsha Shalaby 22 Mar '22

22 Mar '22

This event has been changed. Title: Sanghani Center Faculty Meeting Hi All,I hope everyone is doing well. It's been a while since I've sent out one of these emails! I appreciate Juanita and Brian holding down the fort while I was out on maternity leave. Please note that our first Sanghani Faculty meeting for the semester is scheduled for Friday, March 4 at 12:00 - 1:30 pm. As usual, if you have any recent news or updates since our last faculty meeting, please send them my way so that I may add them into our meeting slides. Updates include awards, proposals, grants, conference presentations, events etc. Please send all updates by Wednesday, March 2. I'll be sending out a reoccurring calendar invite for our scheduled meetings this semester. Below is the Zoom information for our meeting, please note that it's the same link for all our Sanghani Faculty meetings this semester.Join Zoom Meetinghttps://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/81630978632 Meeting ID: 816 3097 8632One tap mobile+13126266799,,81630978632# US (Chicago)+19294362866,,81630978632# US (New York)Dial by your location        +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)Thank you,Wanawsha  (changed) When: Fri Apr 1, 2022 12pm – 1:30pm Eastern Time - New York Calendar: sanghani-faculty(a)cs.vt.edu Who: * Wanawsha Shalaby - organizer * blmicale(a)vt.edu * naren.ramakrishnan(a)gmail.com * ilourentzou(a)vt.edu * zhoud(a)vt.edu * mayer2(a)vt.edu * sanghani-faculty(a)cs.vt.edu Event details: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=NjdhcGYza3BwbmVh… Invitation from Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this courtesy email at the account sanghani-faculty(a)cs.vt.edu because you are an attendee of this event. To stop receiving future updates for this event, decline this event. Alternatively you can sign up for a Google account at https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ and control your notification settings for your entire calendar. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to send a response to the organizer and be added to the guest list, or invite others regardless of their own invitation status, or to modify your RSVP. Learn more at https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding

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Fwd: CFP: CHCI planning grants in human-centered AI
by Chris North 17 Mar '22

17 Mar '22

> Begin forwarded message: > > From: Douglas Bowman <dbowman(a)vt.edu> > Subject: CFP: CHCI planning grants in human-centered AI > Date: March 17, 2022 at 9:21:02 AM EDT > To: chci-faculty-g(a)vt.edu > Reply-To: dbowman(a)vt.edu > > CHCI colleagues, > > We are pleased to announce our new call for planning grants. We are calling for proposals for planning activities leading to large-scale external proposals related to human-centered AI. Five-page proposals from interdisciplinary teams with budgets of up to $40k are due April 8. > > This call complements next week’s CHCI workshop <https://hci.icat.vt.edu/workshops/chci-6th-annual-workshop--human-centered-…> on the same topic. We strongly encourage you to register for and attend the workshop to help you identify collaborators and research topics. The due date for proposals is two weeks after the workshop ends. > > The full CFP is below and will be on the CHCI website shortly. > > Please pass this on to your networks, and let me know if you have any questions! > > Best, > Doug > Call for Proposals: Planning Grants for Large-Scale Research Efforts in Human-Centered AI > > Center for Human-Computer Interaction > > > Proposal Deadline: April 8, 2022, 5:00 PM EDT > > Overview and Purpose > > The Center for Human-Computer Interaction (CHCI) invites proposals for internal planning grants leading to large-scale externally funded research efforts in the broad area of “human-centered AI.” The goal of this program is to identify and support interdisciplinary teams of researchers in convergent research areas to prepare for submission of large external grant proposals. In this context, “large” grants are defined as externally funded projects with a total budget of $2M or more. A CHCI planning grant will support new or existing teams to perform activities, such as team building and project scoping, that are necessary to enable the submission of a competitive large proposal in the future. This internal planning grant should lead directly to an external proposal submission as a next step, but the external submission may be a stepping stone to the envisioned large grant (i.e., an external planning grant or small grant). > Research Areas > > Following from the theme of the 2022 CHCI workshop <https://hci.icat.vt.edu/workshops/chci-6th-annual-workshop--human-centered-…>, we are seeking proposals on topics related to human-centered artificial intelligence. Convergence between HCI, AI, and one or more domain areas is strongly encouraged. > Investigators > > Proposals should come from teams of at least two investigators from at least two different departments or disciplines. In addition to listing the core investigators, proposals should identify additional faculty members, disciplines, or external partners that the team will engage during the planning grant period. > Activities Eligible for Support > > Planning grants aim to support a range of planning activities intended to foster a convergent research team that can effectively integrate multiple disciplinary perspectives, explore the research theme in depth, build collaborations with relevant stakeholders, and hone specification of research gaps, questions, and hypotheses. Activities within scope include, but are not limited to, workshops, stakeholder meetings, literature reviews, data collection, preliminary experiments, prototypes, and pilots. In all cases, the proposed activities should be designed as a step along the path to a future large-scale external grant. > Available Funding and Budget Guidelines > > The program has a total budget of $40,000, which may be used to support one or multiple awards. Teams should propose a budget commensurate with the scope of their proposed activities and their intended next steps. In particular, teams proposing activities leading to an external planning grant might request a smaller amount, while teams proposing to submit a large-scale external grant immediately after the planning grant activities might request a larger amount. The maximum allowable budget for a proposal is $40,000. The total requested amount, as well as the individual line items, should be clearly justified in the budget section of the proposal. The anticipated outcome(s) of the planning grant should be articulated in as much detail as possible to assist reviewers in clearly understanding the connection between scope of proposed activities and requested budget. > > Eligible budget categories include faculty time (summer salary and/or AY course buyout), student assistantships and/or wages, travel (for team building), equipment, materials & supplies, and participant support costs. > > Funds will be transferred to the PI’s home department. Unspent funds must be transferred back to CHCI within 45 days of the project’s end date. > Proposal Content > > Proposals should be no more than five (5) single-spaced pages, using Times New Roman 12-point font. > > Proposals should address the following topics: > Definition of the research theme/area and motivation for its importance > History and current status of the research theme at Virginia Tech > Vision for development of the research theme > Qualifications of the interdisciplinary team > Specific large, external grant objective and target source > Roadmap to achieve the large-scale funding objective > Proposed activities for this planning grant > (If applicable) proposed next steps before large-scale proposal submission > Budget and budget justification > Timeline (projects should start in May or June 2022, and be no more than one year in duration) > Submission Process > > In addition to the five-page proposal narrative, submissions should include a cover sheet with signatures of the investigators and their department heads. > > Email a PDF copy of your submission, including cover page with all necessary signatures, to Andrea Kavanaugh at kavan(a)vt.edu <mailto:kavan@vt.edu> by 5:00 p.m. EDT on April 8. > > Review Process and Criteria > > Proposals will be reviewed and funding decisions will be made by the CHCI executive committee. Review criteria will include: > Strength and potential of the interdisciplinary team > Importance and potential of the research theme > Opportunity for the team to create a distinct and compelling research niche > Clarity and feasibility of the plan to achieve large-scale external funding > Overall potential return on investment > Relevance of the theme to the vision and interests of CHCI, VT, and the nation > Important Dates > > March 17, 2022: Call for proposals released > April 8, 2022: Submissions due by 5:00 PM EDT > April 29, 2022: Awards announced > > -- > Doug A. Bowman > Frank J. Maher Professor, Computer Science > Director, Center for Human-Computer Interaction > Senior Fellow, Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology > Virginia Tech > dbowman(a)vt.edu <mailto:dbowman@vt.edu> > https://wordpress.cs.vt.edu/3digroup/author/dbowman/ <https://wordpress.cs.vt.edu/3digroup/author/dbowman/> > Group: https://wordpress.cs.vt.edu/3digroup/ <https://wordpress.cs.vt.edu/3digroup/> > Center: http://hci.vt.edu/ <http://hci.vt.edu/> > Twitter: @CHCI_VT >

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Sign up to meet Xiang Li -- Mar 16
by Chris North 13 Mar '22

13 Mar '22

Sanghani seminar and CS faculty candidate after Spring Break: Wed Mar 16, 10am Xiang (Lorraine) Li https://people.cs.umass.edu/~xiangl/ <https://people.cs.umass.edu/~xiangl/> Probabilistic Commonsense Knowledge in Language https://cs.vt.edu/News/Seminars/Lorraine_Li.html <https://cs.vt.edu/News/Seminars/Lorraine_Li.html> Please sign up to meet with her here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17f53JlSREBmHdmr3WVVRUx5l_-20DyPGxea… <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17f53JlSREBmHdmr3WVVRUx5l_-20DyPGxea…> Btw Thanks for all your efforts will all the many candidates so far. Only (!) 3 more Data/ML candidates to go, hopefully.

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[Bburg-fac] Virginia Tech and Amazon establish machine learning research partnership | VTx | Virginia Tech (fwd)
by Lenwood S. Heath 10 Mar '22

10 Mar '22

Congratulations, Naren! And congratulations too to everyone at the Sanghani Center! Lenny -- Lenwood S. Heath Professor 1160 Torgersen Hall Office phone: (540) 231-4352 Department of Computer Science Cell phone: (540) 392-6672 Virginia Tech FAX: (540) 231-6075 Blacksburg, VA 24061-0106 Email: heath(a)vt.edu WEB: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~heath/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message and signature (c)2022 Lenwood S. Heath All rights reserved -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 08:19:50 -0500 From: Cal Ribbens via Bburg-fac <bburg-fac(a)cs.vt.edu> Reply-To: Cal Ribbens <ribbens(a)vt.edu> To: CS Faculty & Staff <facstaff(a)cs.vt.edu> Subject: [Bburg-fac] Virginia Tech and Amazon establish machine learning research partnership | VTx | Virginia Tech Congratulations to Naren Ramakrishnan and Sanghani Center colleagues on this exciting announcement in this morning's VT News! https://vtx.vt.edu/articles/2022/03/research-amazon-machine-learning-partne… Cal -- Head, Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech https://cs.vt.edu/people/faculty/cal-ribbens.html https://twitter.com/CalRibbens_VTCS _______________________________________________ Bburg-fac mailing list Bburg-fac(a)cs.vt.edu

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Fwd: Inventory of Text Datasets
by Shalaby, Wanawsha 04 Mar '22

04 Mar '22

Hi All, Please make note of Brian's email below. Wanawsha ________________________________ From: Brian Mayer <bmayer(a)cs.vt.edu> Sent: Friday, March 4, 2022 4:21 PM To: Shalaby, Wanawsha; Butler, Patrick; Self, Nathan Subject: Inventory of Text Datasets All, Please take time to start filling out this google sheet with information of text datasets that you have that would be available for others at VT to use for research purposes. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1obZR8STrA68sdfUbX4QKtlH_XSOasT18Eg_… We will revisit at next month's faculty meeting. The link can be shared with anyone at VT. Thanks, Brian -- Brian Mayer bmayer(a)cs.vt.edu<mailto:bmayer@cs.vt.edu> 540-231-5907 Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics<https://sanghani.cs.vt.edu/> - Virginia Tech<https://vt.edu/>

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Sanghani Faculty Meeting - Friday, March 4 at 12 pm
by Shalaby, Wanawsha 03 Mar '22

03 Mar '22

Hi All, I hope everyone is doing well. It's been a while since I've sent out one of these emails! I appreciate Juanita and Brian holding down the fort while I was out on maternity leave. Please note that our first Sanghani Faculty meeting for the semester is scheduled for Friday, March 4 at 12:00 - 1:30 pm. As usual, if you have any recent news or updates since our last faculty meeting, please send them my way so that I may add them into our meeting slides. Updates include awards, proposals, grants, conference presentations, events etc. Please send all updates by Wednesday, March 2. I'll be sending out a reoccurring calendar invite for our scheduled meetings this semester. Below is the Zoom information for our meeting, please note that it's the same link for all our Sanghani Faculty meetings this semester. Join Zoom Meeting https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/83052682262 Meeting ID: 830 5268 2262 Dial by your location: +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) Thank you, Wanawsha

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