Belated but heartfelt congratulations to a UCD4IDS faculty member, Professor Ilias Tagkopoulos, for winning the NSF National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes grant ($20M!) and establishing the AI Institute for Next Generation Food Systems (AIFS)!

For the details, see the campus news: https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/uc-davis-lead-new-artificial-intelligence-institute-next-generation-food-systems/

All the best,

Dear all,

I found the Harvard Data Science Review (an open access platform of the Harvard Data Science Initiative) is quite interesting and informative: https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/
There are several articles there that would be quite useful for us to think further, e.g.,

• All the seminar talks will be conducted online via zoom. For the further information on the zoom and the talk schedule, please visit https://sites.google.com/view/maddd/ .
• Some of the talk slides should be available soon after each talk at https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~saito/ucd4ids/ .

Dear all,

I received the following solicitation from NSF.  The deadline of submitting a full proposal is 12/04/2020.

Sincerely,

Naoki

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National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes
Accelerating Research, Transforming Society, and Growing the American Workforce

PROGRAM SOLICITATION
NSF 20-604

Dear all,

Please join me to congratulate our co-PI Chen-Nee Chuah and a Steering Committee member Jesus De Loera for their 2020 ADVANCE Scholar Awards from the UC Davis Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, through the ADVANCE Program and its Center for the Advancement of Multicultural Perspectives in Science (CAMPOS)! For the details, please check: https://diversity.ucdavis.edu/news/2020-uc-davis-advance-scholar-award-recipients .

All the best,

Dear UCD4IDS members,

I hope this email finds you and your family well under the current extraordinary circumstances. Also, I hope that you are successfully finishing up the most unusual and difficult academic year.

Before entering our summer break, I would like to announce the following great news.
We successfully hired three fantastic postdocs under our NSF TRIPODS grant (with coordination with mathematics and statistics departments). We are so lucky since quite a number of our cohort TRIPODS institutes have difficulty in hiring their postdocs.