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May, 2020

Graduate student Michaelangelo Fields successfully defended his thesis titled as “Use of Machine Learning Methods for Vehicle Predictive Maintenance” and received his Masters in CS degree.

May, 2020

Debzani Deb chaired Session: Courseware and Curricula at EduPar Workshop colocated with IEEE IPDPS, 2020.

March, 2020

Debzani Deb presented a poster at 51th ACM SIGCSE Conference, 2020.

February, 2020

Michaelangelo Fields and David Rodriguez-romero made oral and poster presentations at NSF/AAAS ERN conference, 2020

November, 2019

Debzani Deb performed the role of Program Chair at EDUHPC 2019 workshop colocated with Supercomputing 2019.

September, 2019

Debzani Deb is awarded NSF Award 1900087 , $299,962, 2019-2022.

July, 2019

Debzani Deb is awarded NSF Award 1912214 , $249,825, 2019-2022.

July, 2019

Debzani Deb Presented a poster at 24th ACM ITiCSE 2019

June, 2019

Debzani Deb Hosted CSinParallel Piedmont 2019 Regional Workshop at Winston-Salem State University

May, 2019

Debzani Deb Organized NSF Faculty Workshop on Data Science Pedagogy & Practice link

March, 2019

Debzani Deb presented a paper and chaired a session at 50th ACM SIGCSE Conference

February, 2019

David Rodriguez-romero and James Roberts presented posters at NSF/AAAS ERN conference 2019, in Washington D.C.

November, 2018

Debzani Deb co-chaired EDUHPC 2018 workshop colocated with Supercomputing 2018 in Dallas, TX

May, 2018

Debzani Deb presented a paper at EDUPAR 2018, an IEEE IPDPS Workshop in Vancouver, CA

February, 2018

Debzani Deb, served on a panel at SIGCSE 2018 in Baltimore, MD which focused on Curriculum Initiative on Parallel and Distributed Computing.

February, 2018

George Mathis presented a poster and Sebastian Cousins gave an oral presentation at the NSF AAAS/ERN Conference 2018 in Washington, DC. Sebastian Cousins was awarded 1st place in the Undergraduate Computer Sciences and Information Management Oral Presentation category.

January, 2018

Debzani Deb became a reviewer for Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), published by Elsevier

January, 2018

Sehar Afzal, a Graduate Computer Science major, joined the research team.

December, 2017

James C Roberts, an Undergraduate Mathematics major, joined the research team.

November 17, 2017

George and Sebastian each presented a poster at NC-LSAMP's Annual Undergraduate Research Conference at NC State University. Sebastian was awarded 2nd place prize in Computer Science.

September, 2017

George Mathis, an undergraduate Computer Science major, joined the research team.

June 12-23, 2017

Sebastian spent a week at Duke University conducting research in the Dept of Computer Science.

April 6, 2017

Noelle and Sebastian presented posters at Winston-Salem State University's Scholarship Day.

March 8-11, 2017

Debzani Deb presented a poster in SIGCSE 2017 at Seatle, Washington.

March 1, 2017

Debzani Deb attended HBCU-UP CREST PI/PD meeting at Washington DC.

October, 2016

Henock Yewaydemam, an undergraduate Computer Science major, joined the research team.

September, 2016

Sebastian Cousins, an undergraduate Information Technology major, joined the research team.

July, 2016

Noelle Harp, an undergraduate Computer Science major, joined the research team.

NSF supported WSSU Faculty Workshop on Data Science Pedagogy & Practice

Time: Thursday, May 16th, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Location: Elva Jones Computer Science Building, WSSU, Winston-Salem, NC

Organized By: Debzani Deb, Department of Computer Science, WSSU

Contact: debd@wssu.edu

Workshop Agenda

8:45 AM – 9:00 AM: Registration

9:00 AM – 9:10 AM: Welcome & Opening Remark

Speaker: Dr. Debzani Deb, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, WSSU

Speaker: Dr. Elva J Jones, Professor & Chair, Department of Computer Science, WSSU

9:10 AM – 10:00 AM: Invited Talk: South Big Data Innovation Hub: Activities & Opportunities. Slides

Speaker: Dr. Renata Rawlings-Goss, Executive Director, South Big Data Innovation Hub

School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Tech

Speaker: Shannon McKeen, Deputy Director, South Big Data Innovation Hub

10:00 AM – 10:20 AM: BREAK with refreshment

10:20 AM – 12:00 PM: Data Science: Tools and Techniques Slides

Cities.csv Countries.csv CitiesExt.csv

PythonBasics.ipynb PythonPanda.ipynb PythonPlot.ipynb

diabetes.csv

Speaker: Dr. Debzani Deb, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, WSSU

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: Lunch (provided)

1:00 PM – 1:30 PM: Incorporating Data Science into the Urban Studies & Sustainability Curriculum and Spatial Justice Research at WSSU Slides

Speaker: Dr. Russell M. Smith, Professor, Department of Geography, WSSU

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM: Data Science Pedagogy & Practice: World Café Discussions by Groups

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM: Group Presentations and Discussions

3:00 PM – 3:20 PM: Break with refreshment

3:20 PM – 4:00 PM: Funding Opportunities, Survey & Wrap up Slides

Useful Links

Speaker: Dr. Debzani Deb, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, WSSU