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NSF I/UCRC Program Directors: Rathindra (Babu) DasGupta, Alex Schwarzkopf, Rita Virginia Rodriguez
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 community development endeavors includes a pending FY 2012 TIGER Discretionary Grant Proposal to U.S. Department of Transportation. This effort is led by FIU, who, in partnership with the City of Sweetwater, Miami-Dade Expressway Authority (MDX), and others, proposes to develop Advanced Transit Oriented Developments (ATODs). Through the efforts of FIU's Office of Finance and Administration and I/UCRC-CAKE, a paradigm shift in sustainable communities development and transportation improvements will be undertaken that includes the following components:
1. A world-competitive expert electronic wayfinding system hereinafter referenced as the "Informed Traveler Program and Application" (ITPA) will improve automotive trips from around the Southeast Florida Region to FIU and Sweetwater and will facilitate the use of available and reserved FIU and Sweetwater structured parking. ITPA will also provide very advanced and accurate multimodal information for seamless trip segments between FIU, Miami Intermodal Center and Miami Beach and it will eventually provide very useful multimodal information for all the transportation services available through Miami International Airport, Port of Miami, and various passenger rail, ports and mass transit systems (i.e., Amtrak, Tri-Rail, Metrorail, express bus services, and common carriers).
2. A pedestrian-oriented Advanced Transit and Multimodal Station (ATMS) that will receive and quick-release Miami-Dade Transit's (MDT) proposed SR-836 Express Enhanced Bus Service (836 Express) customers. MDT proposes to operate 60 feet long articulated diesel-electric hybrid buses between western Miami-Dade County communities, FIU and the Miami Intermodal Center at ten-minute peak headways during busy hours of the week.
3. UniversityCity Prosperity Project community improvements that facilitate large-scale pedestrian movements through Advanced Pedestrian-Oriented Complete Streets and Corridors (APOCSC) using plazas, traffic-calmed streets, mixed-mode streets, transit greenway systems, and very wide pedestrian Parabola Bridge, boardwalks, walkway improvements, pedestrian access areas and median improvements to support pedestrian movements to and from Sweetwater City Hall and the Green Library and for the crossing of US 41 at SW 109th Avenue.
4. Advanced Transit Operations, Multimodalism and Intermodalism (ATOMI) established through the: i) repositioning of the FIU CATS Shuttle System and the Sweetwater Community Transit routes that will be more clearly focused and frequent so as to encourage more pedestrian and small transit trips between FIU academic opportunities, the ATMS and Sweetwater City Hall via Sweetwater's Main Street (SW 109th Avenue) and the functional extensions thereof within the FIU Modesto A. Maidique; and ii) use of 836 Express bus services with some or all of the components of a bus rapid transit (BRT) system and the likely reuse of the Panther Express for this purpose as to trips between FIU's Maidique Campus ATMS, FIU.s Biscayne Bay Campus and MIC.
Using the pool of talent available at FIU's Office of Finance and Administration, I/UCRC-CAKE, IBM (which is an industrial member of and holds the Board chairmanship of the I/UCRC-CAKE), FIU College of Engineering and Computing, the FIU College Architecture + The Arts, FIU's Department of Parking and Transportation, Sweetwater's Maintenance Department staff and community transit personnel, MDX, Miami-Dade Aviation Department, Miami-Dade Transit, and FDOT, UniversityCity is likely to be a major game changer that: advances the development of sustainable communities; broadly expands on transportation system efficiencies, usefulness and safety; and significantly enhances express bus and passenger rail customer experience and revenues.
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 $24,000 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 at least $24K and preferably $50K or more; it may optionally state specific research that their fee should
be used to support
b. a small business member committing a first-year membership fee
of $5K; it may optionally state specific research that their fee should be
used to support (if the small business happens to be an NSF SBIR Phase
II Awardee then NSF will likely supplement with $45K and the member
can direct how the $50K will be utilized)
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), Armando Barreto, Christine Lisetti, Debra Davis, Malek Adjouadi, Ming Zhao, Raju Rangaswami, S. Masoud Sadjadi, Sakhrat Khizroev, Scott Graham, Shu-Ching Chen, Tao Li, Xiaowen (Jason) Liu, Zhenyu Yang, Zhonghong Tang.
FAU Faculty: Borko Furht (FAU Director), Ankur Agarwal, Ankur Agarwal, Daniel Raviv, Hari Kalva, Imad Mahgoub Ionut Cardei, Shihong Huang.
Dubna Faculty: Evgenia Cheremisina (Dubna Director), Nadezhda Terekhova, Anna Lyubimova.
Member companies: FIU: ADCi, AnthroTronix, BlueRisc, Condo.com, Content Creators, Corelogic Spatial Solutions, IBM, IHMC, ISCA Tech, Juhari, LTMB, Litstrat, NOA Inc, Neuroscience Centers of Florida Foundation, New Span Opto-Technology, RAMB, Soliton Enterprises, The Miami Herald, Vcom3D. FAU: Adventure Automation, Avocent/Emerson, Aware Technology, CGC.com, Hillers Electrical Engineering, ILS Technology, Jansyl Technologies, LastBestChance, LexisNexis, ProntoProgress, Relli Technologies, SmartVCR, Soren Technologies, Tecore Networks, Tecore Wireless Systems. Dubna members: 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
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.