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The Department of Information Systems’ Chair Dr. Aryya Gangopadyhay was pleased to receive a letter recently from the leadership committee of the EarthCube initiative. The letter was a statement of thanks for Dr. Janeja’s participation in the Strategic Visioning Workshop held in October of 2012, and underscored the value of UMBC’s participation via Dr. Janeja in this important initiative.
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Strategically envisioning the future:
IS Faculty Dr. Vandana Janeja Represents UMBC at the “Early Career Strategic Visioning Workshop” for the National Science Foundation’s EarthCube Initiative.
The Department of Information Systems’ Chair Dr. Aryya Gangopadyhay was pleased to receive a letter recently from the leadership committee of the EarthCube initiative. The letter was a statement of thanks for Dr. Janeja’s participation in the Strategic Visioning Workshop held in October of 2012, and underscored the value of UMBC’s participation via Dr. Janeja in this important initiative.
EarthCube, which is funded and managed out of the National Science Foundation (NSF), is a “ten-year initiative to develop the cyber-infrastructure for the geosciences in order to better enable transformational science
within and across disciplines – facilitating research on some of the most pressing challenges in Earth Science”². The challenge of organizing and coordinating research data in such a way that the whole of knowledge is greater than the sum of all the pieces of data is not an easy one. To that end, the NSF held an invitation only workshop entitled the
EarthCube Early Career Strategic Visioning Workshop in October of 2012. The two day event
Dr. Vanadana at the event, in red, just right of center in the first standing row¹.
was held at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. The NSF and academic leaders of EarthCube selected 68 participants who they felt were the brightest and most enthusiastic scholars in the cross-section of geoscience and computer science. Dr. Janeja was one of those 68 selected to participate in this workshop. Dr. Janeja has been recognized for her expertise and research in the area of data mining, and applied that expertise in her participation at the Workshop, (see illustration above³). In the letter to Dr. Gangopadyhay, the EarthCube leadership described Dr. Janeja as a “talented scholar with whom we see great promise”.
¹ ² https://dco.gl.ciw.edu/earthcube-early-career-strategic-visioning-workshop
³ http://www.flickr.com/photos/umbcinfosystems/8270580556/in/photostream/lightbox/
