NSF I/UCRC Program Directors: Rathindra (Babu) DasGupta, Rita Virginia Rodriguez, Alex Schwarzkopf, Larry Hornak
The National Science Foundation's (NSF) FIU-FAU-Dubna Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement (CAKE) was established to develop long-term partnerships among industry, academe and government. The Center is supported primarily by industry center members, with NSF taking a supporting role in its development, evolution, and core funding.
The Center's mission is to conduct industry-relevant studies and deployments in the representation, management, storage, analysis, search and social aspects of large and complex data sets, with particular applications in geospatial location-based data, disaster mitigation, healthcare, transportation, and town planning.
The Center's government&industry-funded applications include Real Estate: Real estate Trends Cadastre: USA FL Local: Municipalities Beach Crime Deeds White pages Hydrology: USGS S.FL Radiance: AIRS&MODIS Retail: Yellow pages with radius demographics Relief: Joplin tornado Ishinomaki Tsunami Gulf Oil Spill Impact Haiti Ergonomic Geospatial Query Interface: Schools Census Income US towns World AutoPilots: Miami Port NSF Washington Rio Grande Detroit Seattle Star Island FIU Oleta Park Vancouver Olympics Spiral Car movement visualization: Chicago Paths Historical urban development: Miami Washington Dubai Vancouver
The Center's Director, Naphtali Rishe, is the inaugural Outstanding University Professor of FIU and the principal investigator of $45M in grants. The FAU Site Director, Borko Furht, is the Chairperson of the FAU Department of Computer & Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Dubna International University, Russia, joined the Center in August 2010 under the Site Directorship of Academician Eugenia Cheremisina.
The Center's Chair of the Industrial Advisory Board is Oded Cohn, Director of the IBM Haifa Research Center.
Center affiliation is open to industrial members and government agencies.
Affiliation benefits include early access to the Center's research
innovations, twice-yearly meetings on a university campus, and
opportunities to interact with faculty, students, and industry peers.
Benefits include:
— Access to students trained in industry and government relevant research
challenges
— The University waives almost the entire overhead on industrial
contributions to the Center, so contributions go further
— Affiliate representatives form an Industrial Advisory Board which has a
voice in the Center's research direction and long-term strategy
— Members direct which I/UCRC research projects their membership fees are
to be invested in
— Members can utilize at no charge I/UCRC technology, including its mapping engine TerraFly and its applications suitable for the member's activities.
— Members have access to and benefit from the results of all
I/UCRC projects funded with any membership fees. This creates a
multiplier effect — a member paying a fee of $50,000 benefits from
at least $600,000 worth of research.
— The Center can accept funds from any government agency,
normally
without a bidding process and almost without overhead, via an
intra-government transfer mechanism facilitated by NSF. These funds
can be directed to any aspect of the Center's research, including work
beneficial
the Center's industrial members, and can also be used for
collaborative research with industrial members.
Member Commitment
a. a regular industrial member committing a first-year membership fee
of $50K or more
Industrial Advisory Board (IAB)
Members are represented at IAB. At the inaugural CAKE IAB meeting in Miami on 10/19/2008 (pics) and 10/20/2008 (pics), the IAB elected as its Chairman Oded Cohn, Director, IBM Haifa Research Lab.
Center Faculty
FIU Faculty: Naphtali Rishe (Center Director),
Malek Adjouadi,
Ankur Agarwal,
Armando Barreto,
Bogdan Carbunar,
Shu-Ching Chen,
Peter Clark,
Debra Davis,
Scott Graham,
Martha Gutierrez,
S.S. Iyengar,
Sakhrat Khizroev,
Tao Li,
Christine Lisetti,
Jason Liu,
Raju Rangaswami,
Shaolei Ren,
Naphtali Rishe,
Masoud Sadjadi,
Zhonghong Tang,
Ming Zhao.
FAU Faculty:
Borko Furht (FAU Director),
Ankur Agarwal,
Daniel Raviv,
Hari Kalva,
Imad Mahgoub
Ionut Cardei,
Shihong Huang.
Dubna Faculty:
Evgenia Cheremisina (Dubna Director), Nadezhda Terekhova, Anna Lyubimova.
Member companies:
Coordinated via FIU:
ADCi,
AnthroTronix,
BlueRisc,
CVISION,
Condo.com,
Content Creators,
Corelogic Spatial Solutions,
Guiedwire,
IBM,
IHMC,
ISCA Tech,
Independence Science,
LTMB,
Litstrat,
NOA Inc,
Neuroscience Centers of Florida Foundation,
New Span Opto-Technology,
RAMB,
Streamline Automation,
The Miami Herald,
Vcom3D,
ViewPlus.
Coordinated via FAU:
Adventure Automation,
Avocent/Emerson,
Aware Technology,
CGC.com,
Hillers Electrical Engineering,
ILS Technology,
Jansyl Technologies,
LastBestChance,
LexisNexis,
Omega Optics,
ProntoProgress,
Relli Technologies,
SmartVCR,
Soren Technologies,
Tecore Networks,
Tecore Wireless Systems,
Video Semantics.
Coordinated via Dubna:
Information Center of Technology in Natural Resource Use "CITvP",
Information Center of VNIIgeosystems LLC "IC VNIIgeosystems",
Information Systems in Education,
Laboratory of Networking Technologies,
Mezon,
Open University of Information Technologies.
Contact:
Naphtali David Rishe
b. a small business member committing a first-year membership fee
of $5K
Director, NSF FIU-FAU-Dubna Industry-University Cooperative Research Center
Florida International University
University Park, ECS-243, Miami, FL 33199
Direct: (305)672-6471; Secretary: (305)348-1706; Fax: (305)348-1707
Presented by
National Science Foundation's Industry-University Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement at Florida International and Atlantic Universities and Dubna International University (Russia) (I/UCRC-CAKE).
This material is based in part upon work supported by the National
Science
Foundation under Grant Number IIP-0829576.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s)
and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.