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NSF Partnerships for International Research and Education

NSF OISE-0730065http://pire.fiu.edu/

CI-PIRE: A Global Living Laboratory for Cyberinfrastructure Application Enablement

Florida International University

Nov. 2010

Latin American GridLAGrid

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CI-PIRE Introduction• Provides international research and career

development opportunities to students from FIU, FAU, UNCC, UM, and UPRM

• Focuses on research and education excellence in cyberinfrastructure (CI) application enablement, especially on Hurricane Mitigation, Bioinformatics, and Healthcare applications

• Provides global training in cross-cultural collaboration and creates scholars ready to compete in the global marketplace

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CI-PIRE Introduction• Engages highly qualified science and

engineering students at all ranks• Pays for collaboration-research trips of 6 weeks

to full semesters in length to research sites in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, France, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and Spain

• Provides fellowships of up to $10,000 per semester to superbly-qualified PhD students

• Provides limited tuition and stipend to excellent students who maintain their collaborations after their travel

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CI-PIRE Partnership Model

• Adding world-class institutions that bring unique and significant contribution to CI-PIRE

• Leveraging the LA Grid’s established partnerships:– FIU, FAU, UM, & UPRM– IBM (T.J. Watson, Almaden, CRL, IRL, and TRL)– BSC/UPC, UdeG, UNLP

• Going beyond LA Grid– UNCC (USA)– Tsinghua (China), UCLM (Spain), UFF (Brazil), UFG (Brazil),

USP (Brazil), UdR (France), PoliMi (Italy), NII (Japan), Eindhoven (Netherlands)

– INRIA (France), Yahoo! (Spain), REIN (France)

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CI-PIRE Triangle for Workforce Development

A Student-Centric Model

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Participant Process Model:Project Management & Evaluation

RecruitmentApplication

Global Train.Collaborative Research, Education, and Training

LogisticsIndustry Experience

International Experience

SummitReport

Project Management

Internal & External Evaluation

Engaging Int’l Partners

Faculty Advisors’ Short Visits to Collab.Monitoring the Progress of ProjectsMonitoring the Students Int’l Exposure Review

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Monitoring the Safety of Students

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LA Grid Summit 2009 & 2008

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Student and Faculty Travels

• First three years– 20 travels by faculty members

• ~1 week long– 60 travels by student participants

• ~8 weeks long

• First two years– 94% expectations from the program were met– 100% recommend this program to others

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Publications Summary

• Published– 4 journal articles– 4 book chapters– 26 conference and workshop papers– 64 posters

• To be published– 2 under review– 2 ready for submission– 16 under preparation

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CI-PIRE Past Participation Highlights• PhD Students

– Tariq King: Asst. Prof. at North Dakota State – Selim Kalayci: Instructor and HPC Director at East Tennessee State University– Eric Meyer: Prof. at Miami Dade College

• MS Students – Ingrid Bukley: Pursuing PhD– Paula Carrilla: Working at Texas Instruments– One is now working for Infor

• BS Students – Marlon Bright: Pursuing MS in UT Austin; will continue to PhD– Christopher Holder: Employed at Microsoft as a SDET in Sharepoint– AJ Munoz and Sajjad Zaidi: Working at Kaseya; – Jonathan Sanchez is the eFollett coordinator– One working for Turner Construction – One undergraduate student got internship at Siemens

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CI-PIRE Triangle PanelJavier Delgado, PhD student

Florida International UniversityHurricane Mitigation

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CI-PIRE Triangle Xabriel Collazo, PhD student

Florida International UniversityTransparent Grid/Cloud Enablement

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