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Four faculty members in the ICS department have each been
individually awarded
prestigious National Science Foundation
(NSF) CAREER awards in 1997. CAREER awards are
nationally-recognized 4 or 5-year funding awards designed to
support outstanding junior faculty in their fields.
The four faculty members are:
In addition,
Professor Rajesh Gupta
and
Professor David Redmiles also received NSF CAREER awards in recent
years, and thus, each of the 6 of the assistant professors in the
ICS department have received this prestigious award.
ICS continues to attract the best students according to information about
this fall's incoming freshman class. The average SAT score for incoming
ICS majors is 1216, an increase from last year's average of 1167. Last
year's ICS average was the highest at UCI, so this year's increase makes it
likely that ICS will repeat that distinction. The average GPA for these
students is an impressive 3.83, an increase from last year's 3.61.
The average SAT score of ICS freshman has increased steadily over the last
few years: 1019 ('94),
1052 ('95),
1167 ('96),
1216 ('97),
ICS Chair
Mike Pazzani
attributes these outstanding numbers to a number
of factors, including an increase in the number of freshman applications
received, scholarship funds provided by ICS alumni, the freshman honors
program, high school recruiting, and other efforts to attract strong
students to ICS.
Professor Lubomir Bic , leading a team of faculty
colleagues in ICS and other departments on campus, has been
awarded 2 significant grants in biomedical computing.
The first is a
GAANN award, Graduate Assistantships in Areas of National Need.
This grant has been awarded by the US Department of Education
and will provide Fellowships for students interested or pursuing
research in Biomedical Computing. Specifically, the following areas
will be addressed:
- Knowledge Discovery in Clinical Databases
- Computational Neuroscience
- Physiological Simulations
- Protein Structure Prediction
- Medical Image Processing
The grant provides funding of almost one million dollars, which will
support ten PhD students over a period of 3 years.
The second grant is an
NSF CISE Instrumentation Grant.
This grant has been awarded by the National Science Foundation and
will fund the establishment of a distributed computing laboratory
dedicated to Biomedical Computing. In its full configuration, this
will consist of approximately 20 Sun SparcStations interconnected by a
100 megabit/sec communication network and will be housed in IERF and
CSE buildings.
Professor Padhraic Smyth , with co-authors Professor Michael
Ghil and Dr. Kayo Ide (Department of Atmsospheric Sciences,
UCLA), Professor Andy Fraser (Systems Science, Portland State
University) and Joe Roden (JPL), received the best paper
award for applied research at the recent Third
International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and
Data Mining, August 1997, Newport Beach, CA.
The paper describes the application of probabilistic
clustering models to observational data from the Earth's
upper atmosphere. A key contribution of the work was the
objective confirmation by the models that upper atmosphere
low-frequency dynamics can be characterized by variability
associatd with three fundamental
spatial patterns (or "regimes"). The confirmation of three
regimes (which had been hypothesized in prior work) is
expected to lead to advances in predictive models of
upper atmosphere dynamics.
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