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    <Title>Prof. Vinjamuri receives NSF IUCRC Phase II award</Title>
    <Tagline>Supports UMBC's partnership in the BRAIN Center</Tagline>
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          <div class="html-content"><img src="https://ai.umbc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/734/2023/07/Conversation-Vinjamuri-lab.jpg" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"><div><br></div><div><div>UMBC CSEE Professor <strong><a href="https://www.csee.umbc.edu/ramana-vinjamuri/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Ramana Vinjamuri</a></strong> received a new <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2333292" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>NSF IUCRC Phase II award</strong></a> to support participation as a partner in <a href="null" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>BRAIN</strong></a>, the Building Reliable Advances and Innovations in Neurotechnologies Industry-University Cooperative Research Center.</div><div><br></div><div>BRAIN's overall goal is to develop and validate new technologies that address the needs of physically and neurologically impaired individuals and those of the growing aging population. </div><div><br></div><div>Research in <a href="https://vinjamurilab.cs.umbc.edu/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Dr. Vinjamuri's lab</strong></a> complements existing strengths in other BRAIN sites and expands research into new areas, including artificial intelligence, neural imaging and stimulation, cyber-human systems, human-centered computing, neural signal processing, and virtual/augmented/mixed reality.</div></div><div><br></div><div>NSF funds Industry–University Cooperative Research Centers like BRAIN to conduct joint research with innovative industry partners.</div></div>
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    <Summary>UMBC CSEE Professor Ramana Vinjamuri received a new NSF IUCRC Phase II award to support participation as a partner in BRAIN, the Building Reliable Advances and Innovations in Neurotechnologies...</Summary>
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  <Title>UMBC CARTA Center for data analytics research</Title>
  <Tagline>NSF continues funding the IUCRC for five years</Tagline>
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    <div class="html-content"><div><img src="https://ai.umbc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/734/2024/01/CARTA_PhaseII_vision.jpg" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></div><div><br></div><div>UMBC's <a href="https://carta.umbc.edu/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Center for Accelerated Real Time Analytics </strong></a>(CARTA) team will advance its work in investigating data analytics using next-generation computing hardware with the launch of the next phase of the multi-institutional research collaboration.  CARTA is an <a href="https://iucrc.nsf.gov/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center</a> (IUCRC) that helps fund collaborations between universities and researchers from industry and government agencies.</div><div><br></div><div><div>UMBC is partnering with Rutgers University, the University of Miami, and Arizona State University to deploy CARTA Phase II. The focus is on data analytics research to develop new accelerated and real-time approaches to address advanced technology integration in industries such as health care, finance, and security.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://carta.umbc.edu/projects/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Current projects</strong></a> at UMBC include legal text analytics, optimizing semantic knowledge graph systems on GPUs, using machine learning to improve understanding of weather and wildfire spreading, and developing better analytics to detect malware.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Read more about CARTA's new award in this <a href="https://umbc.edu/stories/center-for-accelerated-real-time-analytics/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>UMBC News article</strong></a>.</div></div>
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  <Summary>UMBC's Center for Accelerated Real Time Analytics (CARTA) team will advance its work in investigating data analytics using next-generation computing hardware with the launch of the next phase of...</Summary>
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  <PostedAt>Fri, 26 Jan 2024 11:20:54 -0500</PostedAt>
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