iHARP students, senior researchers and faculty members: Atefeh Jebeli, Chhaya Kulkarni, Naomi Tack, and Drs. Don Engel, Bayu Adhi Tama had the opportunity to have their papers accepted into IGARSS this year for their 43rd Annual Symposium! This group attended the week-long symposium in Pasadena, California where they presented their research papers and findings this July of this year.

As part of their experience at IGARSS, our researchers were able to meet with researchers from all over the world, including NASA, NOAA, and other academic institutions; attending tutorials, speeches, and presentations. iHARP researchers plan to expand their work to continue to integrate data science and polar science for physics-informed, data-driven discoveries.     

Our iHARP Graduate Assistants and postdoctoral researcher: Dr. Bayu Adhi Tama, Emam Hossain, Akila Sampath, and Atefeh Jebeli, along with a student from University of Colorado Boulder, Nidhin Harilal had a great opportunity to visit the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)! 

This group from iHARP attended the week-long “Machine Learning Institute” from June 26-30th where they received training on topics such as Introduction to Computing Clusters and Python environments, Supervised and Unsupervised Learning, Deep Learning Techniques, and briefly touched upon distributed deep learning using PyTorch. 

As a part of the workshop experience, our researchers  toured TACC infrastructure firsthand, observing the LoneStar6, Stampede2, and Frontera servers. iHARP researchers plan to utilize the TACC resources in various projects in a scalable environment integrating data science and polar science for physics-informed, data-driven discoveries.

iHARP is recruiting the executive director to provide critical leadership in the center's operations working alongside the iHARP team, a person who is dedicated to the center’s growth as well as building a sustainable center for years to come. The ideal candidate will be active in building community relationships and related programming, involved in strategic planning for the center's growth, and work with researchers to identify new grant and funding opportunities. 

For more information about the position and how to apply,  please visit: https://listings.umbc.edu/cw/en-us/job/494168/executive-director-for-iharp

By Nikki Monczewski, M.S. '22, human centered computing

We are excited to announce that iHARP has FOUR research papers accepted as part of the  oral presentation program for the upcoming International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2023 happening in July. 

Accepted papers included: 

1. N. Tack, B. A. Tama~, A. Jebeli, V. Janeja, D. Engel, R. Williams, Metrics for the quality and consistency of ice layer annotations, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, July 2023, Accepted

2. A. Jebeli, B. A. Tama~, V. Janeja, N. Holschuh, C. Jensen, M. Morlighem, J. A MacGregor, M. Fahnestock, TSSA: two-step semi-supervised annotation for englacial radargrams on the Greenland ice sheet. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, July 2023, Accepted

3. C. Kulkarni, V. P. Janeja, N. Schlegel, Multi-contextual learning: Analyzing melt over the Greenland ice sheet, Poster at the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, July 2023, Accepted

4. N. Tack, N. Holschuh, S. Sharma, R.  Williams, D. Engel,  Development and Initial Testing of XR-based Fence Diagrams for Polar Science, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, July 2023, Accepted

Join us in congratulating iHARP Students and Senior Researchers for all their hard work and getting their papers accepted to the upcoming 43rd Annual IGARSS Symposium. 

By Nikki Monczewski, M.S. '22, human centered computing

Tolulope Ale, doctoral student, will present his research on studying the anomalous relationships of atmospheric variables of Greenland at the 2023 CRA_WP Grad Cohort Workshop for IDEALS in Honolulu, Hawaii which will take place March 23 - 25, 2023.

Presentation Topic: Multi-domain relationship heterogeneous temporal data

Mentor: Dr. Vandana Janeja --  Professor,  iHARP Director,  and UMBC Department of Information Systems Chair

To find out more about the workshop, please click here.

Tolulope (Tolu) Ale, MSc., is a doctoral student in the information systems department. He obtained a master's degree in physics from the University of Texas at El Paso in 2021 with a focus on computational biophysics. He is interested in applied Data Science and Machine Learning. Tolu is conducting research in the Datamining/Machine Learning area under Dr. Vandana Janeja. His interest is in identifying anomalous associations in temporal data that can be further used in predictive analytics. Tolu's research is focused on mining multivariate anomalous temporal events in the Arctic domain.