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.

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.

Education

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.

Announcements

• On May 26^th through the 28^th 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). 

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