http://www.jzola.org/ Latest news from Jaroslaw Zola (c) 2010-2024 Jaroslaw Zola https://gitlab.com/SCoRe-Group/SKiM A new release of SKiM, our memory efficient metagenomic classifier, is out. This new version offers faster methods to create a reference database index. On the other note, we are working on a new version that will be tailored specifically for mobile devices. Mon Jul 7 15:19:50 EDT 2025 Mon Jul 7 15:19:50 EDT 2025 https://lostbits.net/the-basement/ "the basement" is an avid look at the glorious past of computing exemplified by a unique collection of vintage hardware that Ethan Blanton has collected in his basement. The resulting zine brings together my photos (done in a traditional black and white film photography) with Ethan’s narration. It is a mix of a fine-art photography and captivating storytelling that will grab your inner geek. The gallery of pictures from the zine is available from https://photo.jzola.org/Film/The-Basement, and you can access the digital version from https://lostbits.net/the-basement/. The first print of the zine is limited to 64 copies Fri Nov 1 00:00:01 EDT 2024 Fri Nov 1 00:00:01 EDT 2024 https://cse.buffalo.edu/~jzola/smarten/ A brand new version of our Coriolis metagenomic classifier is out! This release (0.2.1) brings new task scheduler that significantly improves classification throughput. Coriolis can perform real-time classification while running alongside a basecaller (e.g., dorado). Fri Sep 27 13:24:39 EDT 2024 Fri Sep 27 13:24:39 EDT 2024 https://www.computer.org/csdl/journal/td For the second time, I have been recognized with the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems Award for Editorial Excellence. Mon Apr 8 10:18:53 EDT 2024 Mon Apr 8 10:18:53 EDT 2024 https://cse.buffalo.edu/~jzola/smarten/ We have released a new version of our Coriolis metagenomic classifier and its accompanying frameworks. The classifier is specifically designed to operate efficiently on portable devices with limited main memory. Its primary use case is for mobile metagenomics, particularly with MinION DNA sequencers. Coriolis can perform real-time classification while running alongside a basecaller (e.g., dorado). Thu Dec 7 09:24:02 EST 2023 Thu Dec 7 09:24:02 EST 2023 https://2024.ccgrid-conference.org// I am on the program committee of CCGRID 2024. Mon Sep 11 09:06:51 CEST 2023 Mon Sep 11 09:06:51 CEST 2023 https://icpp23.sci.utah.edu/ I am on the program committee of ICPP 2023. Mon Apr 3 09:06:51 CEST 2023 Mon Apr 3 09:06:51 CEST 2023 https://www.ipdps.org/ I am on the program committee of IPDPS 2023. Tue Oct 18 12:40:16 CEST 2022 Tue Oct 18 12:40:16 CEST 2022 http://www.jzola.org/ Starting Fall 2022 I am on sabbatical leave, hanging out in Europe (till Summer 2023). As I seem to have some free time ;-) do not hesitate to ping me if you would like to meet! Tue Oct 18 12:40:10 CEST 2022 Tue Oct 18 12:40:10 CEST 2022 https://www.ipdps.org/ I am on the program committee of IPDPS 2022. This time the conference will be held in Lyon, France. It seems that the conference will be in person. Lyon is one amazing city which has plenty to offer, so you definitely should join us there! Tue Oct 19 10:58:35 EDT 2021 Tue Oct 19 10:58:35 EDT 2021 https://acm-bcb.org/ I am on the program committee of ACM BCB 2021. The conference is virtual this year. Please consider submitting your best work! The submission deadline is April 1, 2021. Tue Mar 16 13:15:47 EDT 2021 Tue Mar 16 13:15:47 EDT 2021 https://www.buffalo.edu/fellowships/faculty/myerson.html I am deeply honored to be recognized with the 2020-2021 President Emeritus and Mrs. Meyerson Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring. Thank you to all amazing undergraduate students I was privileged to work with! Thu Jan 7 16:26:55 EST 2021 Thu Jan 7 16:26:55 EST 2021 https://oaciss.uoregon.edu/icpp21/index.php I am on the program committee of ICPP 2021 (Algorithms Track). This is special year for ICPP – 50th Anniversary! Consider submitting your best work! The submission deadline is April 16, 2021. Thu Jan 7 16:26:55 EST 2021 Thu Jan 7 16:26:55 EST 2021 http://www.hicomb.org/ I am on the program committee of HiCOMB 2021. Submissions deadline: January 29, 2021. Tue Jan 5 00:01:55 EST 2021 Tue Jan 5 00:01:55 EST 2021 https://www.computer.org/csdl/journal/td I am excited to join IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems as an Associate Editor. Thu Aug 13 11:25:06 EDT 2020 Thu Aug 13 11:25:06 EDT 2020 https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-parallel-and-distributed-computing/ I have been invited to join the Editorial Board of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Processing in the role of Associate Editor. Thu Apr 23 13:38:36 EDT 2020 Thu Apr 23 13:38:36 EDT 2020 http://engineering.buffalo.edu/home/research/faculty/awards/seas.html I have been recognized with the 2019 Early Career Teacher of the Year Award by the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Fri Feb 28 22:17:37 EST 2020 Fri Feb 28 22:17:37 EST 2020 https://cse.buffalo.edu/~jzola/blog/simple_setup/ Here is a short blog post summarizing the setup I use for delivering and recording lectures. Wed Jan 22 11:24:37 EST 2020 Wed Jan 22 11:24:37 EST 2020 https://gitlab.com/SCoRe-Group/SABNA-Release We released SABNA 3.001, our end-to-end Bayesian network learning platform. In this release, we add fully parallel network structure search capability. We also migrated from OMP to Intel TBB (better performance!). Wed Jan 22 11:24:37 EST 2020 Wed Jan 22 11:24:37 EST 2020 http://www.jzola.org/ I have open PhD position in the domain of parallel and distributed computing with applications to data analytics. Fri Sep 6 13:55:30 EDT 2019 Fri Sep 6 13:55:30 EDT 2019 http://www.icpp-conf.org/s I am on the programming committee of ICPP 2020. Abstracts are due March 2, 2020, the full papers deadline is March 9, 2020. Fri Sep 6 13:54:47 EDT 2019 Fri Sep 6 13:54:47 EDT 2019 https://sites.google.com/view/mmm2019/home I am giving invited talk during the Workshop on Microbiomics, Metagenomics, and Metabolomics (MMM), which is hosted together with the ACM-BCB 2019. Fri Sep 6 13:50:28 EDT 2019 Fri Sep 6 13:50:28 EDT 2019 https://tinyurl.com/y4ju4czz I have been awarded NSF CNS Core grant to work on new solutions for fully-mobile DNA analytics (based on ONT MinION portable DNA sequencer). This is amazing collaborative effort with Steve Ko (UB CSE) and Lou Sassoubre (UB CSEE). The project code name is SMARTEn. Tue Jun 18 12:22:16 EDT 2019 Tue Jun 18 12:22:16 EDT 2019 https://tinyurl.com/y2vy366o Together with my collaborator Olga Wodo (PI), we have been awarded NSF CMMI grant to continue and expand our work on data analytics for materials science. This project is a joint effort with Baskar Ganapathysubramanian from Iowa State University. Tue Jun 18 12:16:33 EDT 2019 Tue Jun 18 12:16:33 EDT 2019 http://tinyurl.com/yx8gs32o Together with my collaborators Varun Chandola (PI), Nils Napp (Co-PI) and Olga Wodo (Co-PI) we have been awarded NSF OAC Core grant to continue and expand our work on non-linear spectral dimensionality reduction methods. Tue Apr 23 22:53:37 EDT 2019 Tue Apr 23 22:53:37 EDT 2019 http://tinyurl.com/y8ef9hke I have been awarded NSF CAREER grant to continue work on scalable probabilistic graphical modeling with applications to biomedical informatics. Wed Feb 6 13:35:51 EST 2019 Wed Feb 6 13:35:51 EST 2019 http://cse.buffalo.edu I have been recognized with Early Career Faculty Teaching Award by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UB. Wed Feb 6 13:33:52 EST 2019 Wed Feb 6 13:33:52 EST 2019 http://www.ipdps.org I am a Workshops Vice-Chair for IPDPS 2019. Sat Aug 18 10:23:52 CEST 2018 Sat Aug 18 2018 10:23:52 CEST https://graal.ens-lyon.fr/sbac-pad/index.php I am on the program committee of SBAC-PAD 2018. Tue May 22 15:00:55 PDT 2018 Tue May 22 2018 15:00:55 PDT http://www.hipc.org/ I am on the program committee of HiPC 2018. Paper submission deadline June 15, 2018. Tue May 22 15:00:55 PDT 2018 Tue May 22 2018 15:00:55 PDT http://www.jzola.org/ SCoRe group and I have moved to new location in Capen Hall. My new office is Capen 209 (enter through Capen 212). Mon Feb 19 10:08:12 EST 2018 Mon Feb 19 2018 10:08:12 -0500 http://www.jzola.org/ I have several open positions for UTAs in CSE250 "Data Structures" in Spring 2018. If you are interested, please send me email or stop by my office! Mon Dec 11 10:27:43 EST 2017 Mon Dec 11 2017 10:27:43 -0500 https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.07370 Our paper on Applications and Challenges of Real-time Mobile DNA Analysis in now available in arXiv. Tue Nov 21 09:51:32 EST 2017 Tue Nov 21 2017 09:51:32 -0600 http://engineering.buffalo.edu/home/news/seas.host.html/content/shared/engineering/home/articles/news-articles/2017/middle-schoolers-say-i-can--to-college.detail.html UB SEAS News has a nice summary of the "I Can!" program run by the UB's Liberty Partnership Program. Together with Oliver Kennedy from CSE@UB I have been participating in the program as an instructor. Mon Aug 21 13:07:40 EDT 2017 Mon Aug 21 2017 13:07:40 -0600 http://ipdps.org/ipdps2018/2018_call_for_workshops.html I am a Workshops Vice-Chair for IPDPS 2018. The deadline for workshop proposals and renewal requests is September 1, 2017. Mon Jul 17 15:41:19 EDT 2017 Mon Jul 17 2017 15:41:19 -0600 http://hipc.org/ I am on the programming committee of HiPC 2017. Abstracts are due June 5, the full papers deadline is June 15. Fri Jun 2 10:59:35 EDT 2017 Fri Jun 2 2017 10:59:35 -0600 http://www2.sbc.org.br/sbac/2017/ I am on the programming committee of SBAC-PAD 2017. Tue May 30 00:14:51 EDT 2017 Tue May 30 2017 00:14:51 -0600 http://www.sigbioinformatics.org/ I am now serving as a Director of Web Communications for the ACM SIGBio, the ACM's special interest group focusing on research in bioinformatics and biological and biomedical data, knowledge, and information management. Thu Jan 6 09:30:30 CDT 2017 Thu Jan 6 2017 09:30:30 -0600 http://www.acm-bcb.org/ I am serving as a co-chair of the "Advancing Algorithms and Methods" track of ACM-BCB 2017. Papers submissions deadline: April 10, 2017. Mon Jan 9 11:09:31 EST 2017 Mon 09 Jan 2017 11:09:31 -0500 https://www.hicomb.org/ I am on the program committee of HiCOMB 2017. Submissions deadline, January 30, 2017. {af07ecec1-aac0-aef1-a7ae-1ccde3461270} Wed, Nov 16 20:29:56 EST 2016 https://www.ppam.pl/ I am on the program committee of the 12th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM). {ff07ecec1-aa90-aef1-a7ae-1ccde3461270} Thu, Nov 3 00:11:30 EDT 2016 https://www.computer.org/web/tcpp/index I will be serving as the Student Travel Awards Chair for the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP). Currently, IEEE TCPP sponsors several conferences including IPDPS, the flagship conference of IEEE on parallel and distributed processing. {ff07ece71-0aae-aef1-a7ae-1ccde3461122} Thu, Nov 3 00:11:26 EDT 2016 https://gitlab.com/SCoRe-Group/SABNA-Release My student, Subhadeep Karan, and I have released SABNA – our software toolkit for exact Bayesian networks structure learning. The source code and documentation are available from https://gitlab.com/SCoRe-Group/SABNA-Release. The accompanying preprint describing the optimal path extension technique, which is at the core of SABNA, is available from arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.02682. Enjoy! {07deae71-0aae-aef1-a7ae-1ccde3460105} Wed, Aug 10 11:44:29 EDT 2016 https://www.buffalo.edu/research/research-services/find-funding/find-ub-funding/current--annual-and-ongoing-funding/impact-funding.html I have been awarded a small seed grant from the UB Innovative Micro-Programs Accelerating Collaboration in Themes (IMPACT). Together with Tevfik Kosar and Michael Buck we will be working on OneBioStore, a distributed smart storage and scalable algorithms for collaborative biomedical discovery. {c9deae71-0aae-1e01-a7ae-1c0de04601e1} Mon, Jul 11 11:37:00 EDT 2016 http://www.bigls.org/ Thanks to the support from the NSF, the ACM International Workshop on Big Data in Life Sciences (BigLS) offers travel grants for students and postdocs from US academic institutions! Application deadline August 5, 2016. {99aeaeae-cc0e-6fa6-07ae-1b1a317601e1} Thu, Jun 30 14:11:52 EDT 2016 http://www.buffalo.edu/ccr/outreach/k-12-outreach/summer-workshop.html On June 29, I am giving a talk during the Eric Pitman Annual Summer Workshop in Computational Science organized by the Center for Computational Research at the University at Buffalo. {cefeaeae-cc0e-0fac-17ae-1b1a317601e1} Wed, Jun 28 15:04:10 EDT 2016 https://goo.gl/maps/Xo9EpFze6o82 The Biomedical Informatics Department at UB moved to a new location on Goodell St. (UB Gateway). My office is on 5th floor (suite 540B). {77f47eae-e7ae-10f7-77ce-f01ac4132ea1} Thu, May 12 10:07:13 EDT 2016 http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~yliu/wacebi2016/ I am on the program committee of the Workshop on Accelerator-Enabled Algorithms and Applications in Bioinformatics (WACEBI 2016). Papers submission deadline is October 9, 2016. {e0f47eae-a7ae-10f7-77ce-a01ac6131ea4} Tue, May 10 10:16:47 EDT 2016 http://acm-bcb.org/ I am on the program committee of ACM-BCB 2016. Papers submission deadline is May 20, 2016. {10a37eae-97ae-20f7-07ee-001ac6131ea4} Tue, Apr 26 23:15:43 EDT 2016 https://aws.amazon.com/grants/ I have been awarded by Amazon $10,000 in AWS cloud credits for research on cloud software for long reads analysis. {f0ae7eae-97ae-40f7-47ee-1b1cc6701fe1} Mon, Apr 11 23:05:45 EDT 2016 http://www.smbs.buffalo.edu/biomedicalinformatics/ On March 23, 12pm I will be presenting at the Biomedical Informatics Grand Rounds. Title: "Parallel Computing and Bioinformatics — Practitioner's Point of View". The talk will be in UB's CTRC 5019A. {ecae7eae-a7ae-0f7c-47ee-1b1cc6701ce3} Mon, Mar 21 12:23:45 EDT 2016 http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~whkinney/Cabaret/ On March 9, 7pm in the Ninth Ward at Babeville in Buffalo I will be talking about "Signal of Life: DNA and Computers" during the Science and Art Cabaret 17.0. Come and enjoy! {fcde8eae-97ae-cf7c-e7ee-0b1c86761ce3} Thu, Feb 11 21:20:40 EST 2016 http://www.ipdps.org/ I am on the program committee of IPDPS 2016. Submission deadline is October 16, 2015. {9cd78eae-a70e-9fac-37ae-eb0786760ce1} Thu, Sep 17 22:51:32 EDT 2015 http://www.hicomb.org/ I am a program co-chair of HiCOMB 2015. Submission deadline is December 18, 2015 - this is great workshop, consider submitting a paper! {9cdefeae-a70e-9fac-37ae-eb0786760ce1} Thu, Sep 17 22:47:20 EDT 2015 http://http://psalsa.gatech.edu/ I have been invited to present during the pSALSA Workshop hosted in conjunction with the ACM BCB conference. {9cdefeae-070e-afac-c7ae-eb0746760ce1} Thu, Aug 20 20:25:20 EDT 2015 http://www.bigls.org/ Thanks to the support from NSF, BigLS 2015 offers travel grants for students and postdocs from US academic institutions. {aedefeae-bf0e-dfac-e7ae-eb0736760ce0} Tue, Aug 4 21:56:24 EDT 2015 http://www.bigls.org/ Eva K. Lee from Georgia Tech will deliver this year keynote presentation at BigLS 2015! Prof. Lee is well known for her outstanding contributions to Operations Research in medicine and health care. {aedeceae-af0e-0fac-17ae-eb0736760ce0} Thu, Jul 16 16:28:34 EDT 2015 http://sc15.supercomputing.org/schedule/event_detail?evid=wksp122 I am co-organizing a half-day workshop on "Computational and Data Challenges in Genomic Sequencing" during the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing 2015. We lined up some outstanding speakers -- you should attend! {fefe7eae-af0e-bfac-c7ae-eb0736760ce0} Thu, Jul 16 16:21:44 EDT 2015 http://www.buffalo.edu/ccr/outreach/k-12-outreach/summer-workshop.html On June 2, I am giving a talk "Decoding DNA mysteries with Supercomputers" during the Eric Pitman Annual Summer Workshop in Computational Science organized by the Center for Computational Research at the University at Buffalo. The workshop is a great K-12 outreach activity. Stop by if you are in the area :) {cffe7eae-7c0e-dfac-c7ae-db1a367601e0} Thu, 25 Jun 2015 09:57:03 EDT http://www.jzola.org/ I have been invited to the AAAS-FBI roundtable on enhancing the research and educational environment at U.S. universities. {cefe7eae-ac0e-cfac-a7ae-db0a36760ce0} Mon, 22 Jun 2015 09:33:33 EDT http://homepages.wmich.edu/~fts4732/ I am on the program committee of the IEEE High Performance Computing for Big Data Computational Biology Workshop (IEEE HPC-BCB) 2015. This is a new, hopefully interesting, workshop. The paper submission deadline is September 10, 2015. {ceff7eae-7c0e-efac-a7ae-db0a36760ced} Mon, 22 Jun 2015 09:28:13 EDT http://www.hipc.org/ I am on the program committee of HiPC 2015. The paper submission deadline is June 5, 2015. {aeff7eae-ac0e-efac-a7ae-eb0a36760ced} Mon, 4 May 2015 23:51:33 EDT http://www.bigls.org/ The call for papers of BigLS 2015, the workshop devoted to Big Data in life sciences that I am co-organizing, has been posted. Papers submission deadline is June 19. {aeff7eae-a80e-efab-a7ae-eb0a36760ced} Thu, 30 Apr 2015 08:01:02 EST http://acm-bcb.bme.gatech.edu/2015/ I am on the program committee of the 6th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM BCB). This the flagship conference of the ACM SIGBio. The submission deadline is May 8, 2015. {aecf7eae-a80e-efab-a7ae-eb0a36700ceb} Tue, 10 Mar 2015 19:52:11 EST http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/working/kudos.html UB Reporter has a short story on my involvement in the AAAS/FBI Working Group on Big Data in Life Sciences and National Security. {aedfaeae-b80e-efa3-a7ae-eb0a36700ceb} Tue, 20 Jan 2015 18:47:13 EST http://www.alcf.anl.gov/mira I have been granted resource allocation on the ALCF Mira IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer - the 5th fastest supercomputer in the world. Together with the Argonne team I will be working on extending ELaSTIC. {aeacafae-7807-3fa3-b7ae-eb3a3570aceb} Tue, 25 Nov 2014 20:46:32 EST http://www.aaas.org/report/national-and-transnational-security-implications-big-data-life-sciences AAAS and FBI published a joint report on "National and Transnational Security Implications of Big Data in the Life Sciences." To prepare the project AAAS involved a working group of experts in which I participated. On December 11, AAAS will hold a public discussion on the report. {aeacaeae-c80e-3fa3-b7ae-eb0a36700ceb} Tue, 25 Nov 2014 20:39:28 EST http://www.jiit.ac.in/jiit/ic3/ I am serving as a co-chair of the Algorithms track for IC3 2015. {f0acaeae-adbe-3fa3-bdae-eb0a36700ceb} Mon, 24 Nov 2014 21:33:45 EST http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/score/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=opportunities I am looking for a graduate student to work on a collaborative project with Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, home to the 5th fastest supercomputer in the world. This position is available immediately! Visit http://www.score-group.org/doku.php?id=opportunities for more details. {f0acceae-adbe-3fa3-cdae-e70a36700ceb} Fri, 26 Sep 2014 02:45:11 GMT http://www.buffalo.edu/ After two years with the Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute I am moving to an assistant professor position in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the SUNY at Buffalo. I will be also working in the Department of Biomedical Informatics in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Do not hesitate to contact me if you would like to join my research group! {f0acfeae-aaae-50a3-cdae-a90a36700ceb} Wed, 23 Jul 2014 18:35:15 GMT http://www.bigls.org/ Thanks to the support from the NSF the ACM BigLS offers travel grants for students and postdoctoral researchers from US academic institutions. You can learn more at http://www.bigls.org/. {f0acfeae-aaae-40a3-cdae-f90a36700ceb} Wed, 23 Jul 2014 18:35:15 GMT http://www.sciencemag.org/site/products/lst_20140613.xhtml Science Magazine has a brief story on how Big Data impacts life sciences, featuring my comments on the topic. {ffaafeae-aaae-40a3-cdae-f90a36700ceb} Fri, 13 Jun 2014 16:10:25 GMT http://www.jzola.org/elastic I am happy to annouce that the ELaSTIC tool for large-scale similarity graphs construction from biological sequences is now available! {ffaafeae-aaae-40a3-a2fe-a60a46700ceb} Tue, 10 Jun 2014 18:12:25 GMT http://www.bigls.org/ I am very excited to announce that Larry Smarr will deliver this year's BigLS keynote address. Larry Smarr is a terrific speaker and a luminary in using high performance computing in life sciences. {ffeefeae-aaae-40a3-a2fe-a60a46700ceb} Thu, 29 May 2014 20:03:15 GMT http://www.jiit.ac.in/jiit/ic3/ I am serving on the program committee of IC3 2014. {ffeefeae-a30e-40a3-a2fe-a60a46700ceb} Thu, 29 May 2014 12:58:21 GMT http://reu.dimacs.rutgers.edu/ I will be giving this year tutorial for DIMACS REU students. Title: "How to Find Who Lives on Your Belly Button: Not Too Short Introduction to Metagenomics." The focus of the tutorial is on computer science problems in metagenomics. Date: June 4th, 10am-12am and 1pm-2pm in CoRE 431. {aceefeae-030e-40a3-a2fe-a60a46700ceb} Thu, 08 May 2014 13:50:21 GMT http://www.aaas.org/news/big-data-offers-big-challenges-and-opportunities-life-sciences-and-national-security AAAS published a summary of the "Big Data, Life Sciences and National Security" event hosted in D.C. by the AAAS Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy and the Biological Countermeasures Unit of the FBI Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate. This event is one of the outcomes of the AAAS and FBI working group I participate in. {bace0eae-231e-40a3-a2fe-960a46700ceb} Mon, 28 Apr 2014 07:42:34 GMT http://www.bigls.org/ The 2nd ACM International Workshop on Big Data in Life Sciences will be held in conjunction with the ACM BCB in Newport Beach, CA on Saturday, September 20, 2014. The call for papers is now posted! Please, visit http://www.bigls.org/ and help us spread the news :-) {face0eae-231e-40a3-a2fe-960a46700ce3} Tue, 1 Apr 2014 02:52:34 GMT http://www.jzola.org/ I have been invited to participate in a joint AAAS and FBI working group on Big Data in Life Sciences and National Security. The group brings together experts in technology, science, and security to review the current scientific and technological advancements in Big Data analytics in life sciences, and their impact on national security. {aa000eae-431e-40a3-a2fe-960a467eace3} Thu, 9 Jan 2014 20:42:13 GMT http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1346452&HistoricalAwards=false I have been awarded an NSF STTR Phase I grant to work with our small business partner on using Big Data to support supply chain analytics and optimization. A brief summary of the proposal is available from the NSF web page. {ffdefeae-7eee-4543-a2fe-960a467eace3} Mon, 30 Dec 2013 14:35:33 GMT http://www.jzola.org/resources/job-opening-rdi2.pdf I am currently looking for a higly motivated individual to fill in a position of Research Associate or Postdoctoral Associate in Big Data analytics. The focus of this position is on using Big Data for supply chain management, and it involves a close collaboration with industry partners. Please contact me if you want to learn more or are interested. {ffdefeae-74af-4543-a2fe-960a467eace3} Fri, 13 Dec 2013 15:03:13 GMT http://www.iccabs.org/ I am a publicity chair of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS). This time we are going to Miami, Florida. The submission deadline is March 1, 2014. {aedefaae-a4af-2503-12ee-960a467eace3} Fri, 13 Dec 2013 15:03:13 GMT http://www.scienceengineering.org/ase/conference/2014/bigdata/sanjose/website/ I am on the program committee of the 2nd IEEE/ASE International Conference on Big Data Science and Computing. This quite competitive conference (the acceptance rate in 2013 was 8.5%) focuses on very broadly defined Big Data challanges. The submission deadline is March 1, 2014. {acdefaae-74af-2a03-10ee-060e467aace3} Fri, 13 Dec 2013 15:03:12 GMT http://icpp.cs.umn.edu/index.php?target=home I am on the program committee of the 43rd International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2014). The conference will be in Minneapolis, MN. The submission deadline is March 1, 2014. {dacacaae-e4af-ea03-e0ee-a60e467aace5} Mon, 7 Oct 2013 18:55:43 GMT https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20131007-our-bodies-our-data/ The Quanta magazine published a story on Big Data in life sciences, featuring some of my comments on the topic. {fafaceae-e4af-ea03-e0ee-a90e467aace5} Mon, 7 Oct 2013 15:52:17 GMT http://www.jzola.org/faster2 I released a new slightly updated version of Faster2. Enjoy! {fffacdae-e4af-da03-c1ee-290e467aace5} Tue, 4 Sep 2013 1:31:13 GMT http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1307743&HistoricalAwards=false I have been awarded a small grant to work with B. Ganapathysubramanian (ISU) and D. DiCarlo (UCLA) on a very exciting project in CFD. I will be looking into underlying optimization questions. A brief summary of the proposal is available from the NSF web page. {aef0cdae-a4af-3a03-c1ee-200ebebaace5} Tue, 3 Sep 2013 2:26:33 GMT http://www.jzola.org/ I am on program committes of ACM-BCB 2013 and SBAC-PAD 2013. In the meantime we are working to prepare a summary of the BigLS meeting, which was a clear success! {00f0cdae-a0af-0a03-c1ee-100cbebaace5} Mon, 1 July 2013 1:19:52 GMT http://nsfcac.rutgers.edu/uff/ The joint team from RDI2 and Iowa State University, which I led, participated recently in the UberCloud experiment. We executed some amazing computational work. You can find more details at http://nsfcac.rutgers.edu/uff/. {eafacdaf-ceaf-ac03-c0ae-0005beba4ce5} Mon, 1 July 2013 1:16:39 GMT http://www.bigls.org/ Together with Ananth Kalyanaraman we are starting a new workshop dedicated to theory and practice of Big Data in life sciences. BigLS, pronounced "Beagles", will be inaugurated on Thursday, June 13, 2013, and will consist of a set of invited presentations, followed by a joint panel discussion. You are highly welcome to participate! {cafacdaf-aeaf-dc02-cbae-efb5beba4ca3} Fri, 10 May 2013 5:27:41 GMT http://www.iccabs.org/ I am a publicity chair for the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS). This fairly new conference supported by IEEE is becoming a very interesting venue to present all types of computational biology, bioinformatics and life sciences oriented research. The paper submission deadline is April 5, 2013. The conference will be held in New Orleans, LA, June 12-14, 2013. {cafacdaf-deaf-ac02-cbae-bbb5beba4ca3} Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:49:03 GMT http://www.asesite.org/conferences/bigdata/2013/ I am on the program committee of 2013 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Big Data. Washington D.C., September 8-14, 2013. {cafaadaf-ceaf-dc02-cbae-bcb5beba4ca3} Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:06:51 GMT http://pbc.ppam.pl Together with Bertil Schmidt and David Bader we are organizing the Fifth Workshop on Parallel Computational Biology. As usually we welcome all papers that are balancing on a thine line between HPC and biology ;-) PBC is held in conjunction with the PPAM. {fafaadaf-0eff-cc02-c0ae-ec95beb84ca3} Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:22:13 GMT http://ppam.pl I am on the program committee of the 10th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM). PPAM is organized every two years in different parts of Poland. It is really fun conference to attend! This time it will be held in Warsaw. {cafaadaf-aeff-ac02-c0ae-dc95bdb8cca7} Fri, 02 Nov 2012 23:34:47 GMT http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2012/10/03/bigdata The BIGDATA collaborative proposal by Srinivas Aluru (PI), Charles Sing, Patrick Schanble, Wu Feng, Kunle Olukotun and me, got awarded by NSF! NSF/NIH and Iowa State posted related press releases. {cada1daf-1eff-ad02-caae-dc95bdb8cca7} Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:42:13 GMT