About VACCINE
VACCINE's goal is to help this nation's 2.3 million extended homeland security personnel, including first-responders, perform their jobs more effectively by turning mass amounts of data into manageable information.
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Research
One of our visualization images for understanding ice formation in clouds is a top 10 finalist in the NSF/Science magazine Visualization challenge and is also in the running for the people's choice award. This is part of Insoo Woo's PhD work on the visualization software and Dr.Sonia Lasher-Trapp's research in cloud microphysics.
If you are interested or want to vote for our entry, the link is https://nsf-scivis.skild.com/skild2/nsf2012/viewEntryVoting.action
The overall goal of our research is to create innovative and effective integrated data and visual analytic environments-frameworks, methods, and software-that advance the start-of-the-art in analyzing massive, heterogeneous, incomplete, temporally evolving homeland security data for anticipating, detecting, and responding to DHS mission needs.
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VACCINE's goal is to educate current homeland security stakeholders and the next generation of talent and enable them to make effective decisions from the mass of multisource, multimedia data they will face in their careers. Our educational initiatives span the entire career development pipline ranging from PK-12 programs through undergraduate and graduate level work, to professional education and training programs.
Learn More...Announcements
- On May 26th through the 28th we will be conducting a workshop/retreat near Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada on Visual analytics. The goal of this workshop is to: expand, update, and potentially revise/improve the draft research agenda topics from the initial workshop “Defining Visual Analytics Solutions”, draft a complete research agenda for the Science of Interaction in the visual analytics context, and, finally define follow-on project topics. Read More
- Team VACCINE Student members Abish Malik, Silvia Oliveros, Satish Kunchakuri and Nimish Dharawat take second prize in the Gold Division of the Burton D. Morgan Business Plan Competition. More Information can be found here.
- John Stasko will be a presenter in Purdue’s Industrial Engineering Distinguished Seminar Series on February 19th and will be giving a talk titled “The Value of Visualization for Exploring and Understanding Data.” John’s presentation will identify the advantages that visualization brings to data analysis and the situations when it can be most beneficial. Read More.
- Joe DiRenzo, Division Chief of the Operations Analysis Division, Coast Guard Atlantic Area, will be visiting VACCINE. He will also be giving an invited lecture for the Department of Industrial Engineering on March 20th at 10AM in Armstrong B071
- The 2013 Homeland Security Summer Scholars Academy is offering an intensive, ten-week paid summer research experience for undergraduates, hosted by the University of Texas, El Paso. More information can be found here.
- VACCINE will be participating in two paid summer undergraduate research programs, SURF (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship) and SROP (Summer Research Opportunity Program). Students can apply by clicking here (SURF) or on this link (SROP).
Featured Projects
CgSARVA (Coast Guard Search and Rescue Visual Analytics)
CgSARVA was developed to assist the U.S. Coast Guard in understanding the risks associated with resource reallocation and station closures (risk-based visual analytic environment) on the Great Lakes, and has now been extended to the Atlantic Command and D9. Financial considerations in the decision making were incorporated to provide financial, safety, and risk-based comparative analysis. This tool was most recently used this past fall when Superstorm Sandy struck the East Coast. In using cgSARVA, the Coast Guard was able to quickly and easily determine how resources might be reallocated with the damage caused to stations in New Jersey. Additionally, this tool is having additional inputs to account for boat capabilities and various weather conditions. The system is also being validated at the Headquarters level for Coast Guard wide use and is being used in determining the needed capabilities and priorities in rebuilding 14 damaged or destroyed stations as a result of Superstorm Sandy.
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Purdue students contribute to Coast Guard
May 20, 2013
Purdue graduate students contributed to the development of a program to advance recovery from a hurricane. Researchers at Purdue with Visual Analytics for Command, Control and Interoperability Environments (VACCINE), part of the Purdue Research Pa
Read Full StoryU.S. Coast Guard accredits analytical system developed at Purdue
May 7, 2013
In efforts to prioritize and efficiently manage the repair of boats and stations damaged by Superstorm Sandy, the U.S. Coast Guard has accredited a system called Coast Guard Search and Rescue Visual Analytics (cgSARVA) developed in collaboration with
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Overview
VACCINE is dedicated to creating methods and tools to analyze and manage vast amounts of information for all mission areas of homeland security.
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Partner Universities
- Arizona State University
- Florida International University
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Indiana University
- Morgan State University
- Navajo Technical College
- Pennsylvania State University
- Purdue University
- Stanford University
- University of California, San Diego
- University of Houston, Downtown
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- University of Texas at Austin
- University of Washington
- Virginia Tech
- Carleton University, Canada
- Dalhousie University, Canada
- Justice Institute of British Columbia, Canada
- Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
- Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Swansea University, UK
- University of British Columbia, Canada
- University of Calgary, Canada
- University of Manitoba, Canada
- University of Oxford, UK
- University of Stuttgart, Germany
- University of Victoria, Canada
Featured VACCINE Student
Silvia Oliveros-Torres is a master's student in computer engineering graduating in May 2013.
Contact us:
Purdue University
500 Central Drive #226
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2022
Email: vaccine@purdue.edu
- Phone: (765) 496-3747
- Fax: (765) 494-1028



















