New and Revived

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• RESOURCES, DATA, AND PLATFORMS: Currently have an Edge IoT Testbed (R-Pi4 and Jetson Nano cluster). Topics for collaboration include federated machine learning, AI and cloud resources, data, and SDN based on SRv6.
  • Led by:
    • Kohei Ichikawa - Associate Professor, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)
  • Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/u/2/g/pragma-wg-resources
    

Excursions are new efforts starting up in PRAGMA (as of Summer 2023). All PRAGMA members are welcome to join any of the efforts below by contacting the leads and/or joining the mailing groups below.

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• BIODIVERSITY: Sites or individuals interested in exploring biodiversity topics across PRAGMA sites. New work is looking at sharing fishery health technology developed at USM with fishery sites in Indonesia and sharing expertise with biodiversity AI models and algorithms.
  • Led by:
    • Nurul Hashimah Ahamed Hassain Malim - Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)
  • Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/u/2/g/pragma-e-biodiversity

• CLIMATE CHANGE: Sites or individuals interested in collaborating on climate change topics across PRAGMA site. New work is looking at gathering drought data from as many countries as possible and integrating into LandSage.
  • Co-leaders:
    • Fang-Pang Lin - Division Director of Cloud Technology and System Integration, National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC)
    • Wanida Putthividhya - Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Thammasat University
  • Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/u/2/g/pragma-e-climate

• DISASTER MANAGEMENT: Sites or individuals interested in exploring disaster management technlogies across PRAGMA sites. New work is looking at integrating additional data into LandSage like meteorological data from Malaysia. Other sites are welcome to join.
  • Led by:
    • Prapaporn (Nan) Rattanatamrong - Lecturer; Department of Computer Science, Thammasat University
  • Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/u/2/g/pragma-e-disaster-mgmt

• FEDERATED LEARNING: Sites or individuals interested in exploring federated machine learning across PRAGMA sites. New work is looking at developing a federated machine learning model to share/optimize batch queue configurations between NCHC and AIST. Other sites are welcome to join.
  • Co-leaders:
    • Jason Haga - Chief Senior Research Scientist, Continuum Computing Architecture Research Team, Digital Architecture Research Center, AIST
    • Weicheng Huang - Research Fellow, Division Director of Software Technology Division, NCHC
  • Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/u/2/g/pragma-e-fedml

• HEALTH AI: Sites or individuals interested in sharing of resources/tools to enable scaling of AI for Health research at PRAGMA sites. New work is looking at exploring additional resources and tools to support AI Health research at YARSI and Universitas Indonesia.
  • Co-leaders:
    • Sri Chusri Haryanti - Deputy Head of Information Technology at Faculty of Information Technology, Universitas YARSI
    • Ummi Azizah Rachmawati - Dean of Faculty of Information Technology, Universitas YARSI
  • Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/u/2/g/pragma-e-health-ai

Ongoing

• LIMNOLOGY: Predicting lake eutrophication and training the next generation of lake scientists. Current lead(s) are:
  • Cayelan Carey - Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech
  • Paul Hanson - Distinguished Professor of Research, Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin
  • Renato Figueiredo - Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida

Retired

• TELESCIENCE: Making and improving access to or use of remote equipment (e.g., tiled-diplay walls or sensors)
• BIOSCIENCES: Creating stable infrastructure to perform computational genomics analyses with a focus on rice breeding and integrating technologies to create an infrastructure to advance the screening of potential compounds to combat infectious diseases
• CYBERLEARNING: Developing simulation-based learning technology

Biodiversity: Understanding adaption in extreme environments. Current lead(s) are:

• Aimee Stewart - Research Architect, Lifemapper Lead Developer, KU Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum, University of Kansas
• Nadya Williams - Research Programmer, University of California, Irvine

ENT: Developing an experimental network testbed for experimenting with software-defined networks and monitoring impacts of choices. Current lead(s) are:

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