Looking for collaborators in data science? The MBDH Collaboration Cafe is open!
The Collaboration Cafe is a monthly webinar open to all that is focused on building a community of data science researchers in the Midwest and beyond to explore funding opportunities and develop proposals. We are focused on elevating early-career scholars, particularly from underresourced institutions, but everyone is welcome, including participants from industry, nonprofits, and government agencies.
The Collaboration Cafe is an informal meeting, but has some structured elements during each session, including a funding opportunity walk-through, lessons learned from prior awardees, researcher lightning talks, small group discussions, and a speed-networking segment.
To tell us more about your interests, or to present at the Collaboration Cafe, please fill out the form in the sidebar.
Upcoming webinars:
April 23, 2024 | 2:00–3:00 p.m. CT / 3:00–4:00 p.m. ET
Topic: Support for Early-Career Researchers
Solicitation:
- • NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) (22-586)
Host: John MacMullen | MBDH Executive Director
Guest Presenter: Dr. Juan Jenny Li, NSF Program Director, Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC), Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)
May 22, 2024 (tentative) | 3:00–4:00 p.m. CT / 4:00–5:00 p.m. ET
Topic: Multidisciplinary Data Science in Health
Solicitation:
- • NSF/NIH Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science (SCH) (NSF 23-614)
Host: John MacMullen | MBDH Executive Director
Registration coming soon:
Prior webinars:
March 27, 2024
Presenter: John MacMullen, Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub
Guest Presenter: Dr. Vishal Sharma, NSF Program Director, Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS), Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)
Topic: Building Data-Enabled Climate-Resilient Communities
Solicitation: NSF Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC) (24-534)
Host: John MacMullen | MBDH Executive Director View the slides (pdf)
February 28, 2024
Presenter: John MacMullen, Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub
Prior Awardee Guest: Daniel Pemstein, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, North Dakota State University
Topic: Research Infrastructure for Human Networks and Data Science
Solicitation: NSF Human Networks and Data Science (HNDS) (23-568)
Host: John MacMullen | MBDH Executive Director View the slides (pdf)
January 31, 2024
Presenter: John MacMullen, Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub
Guest Presenter: Dr. Kimberly Littlefield, NSF Program Director, Office of Integrative Activities (OIA)
Topic: Understanding Research Administration Capacity Challenges and Opportunities in the Midwest Region
Solicitation: NSF Growing Research Access for Nationally Transformative Equity and Diversity (GRANTED) (PD 23-221Y)
Host: John MacMullen | MBDH Executive Director View the slides (pdf)
Research Administration Needs Assessment Poll
November 9, 2023
Presenter: John MacMullen, Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub
Guest Presenter: Dr. Elizabeth Hoffman, Associate Director, Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), NIH
Topic: Workforce Development for Biomedical Big Data
Solicitation: NIH Education Activities for Responsible Analyses of Complex, Large-Scale Data (R25) (RFA-DA-24-027)
Host: John MacMullen | MBDH Executive Director View the slides (pdf)
October 18, 2023
Presenter: John MacMullen, Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub
Guest Presenter: Thomas Gulbransen, NSF Program Director, Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC), Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), NSF SCIPE lead
Prior Awardee Guest: Karen Tomko, Director of Research Software Applications, Ohio Supercomputer Center
Topic: Cyberinfrastructure Workforce Development
Solicitation: NSF Strengthening the Cyberinfrastructure Professionals Ecosystem (SCIPE) (23-521)
Host: John MacMullen | MBDH Executive Director View the slides (pdf)
September 20, 2023
Presenter: John MacMullen, Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub
Guest Presenter: Dr. Ashok Srinivasan, NSF Program Director, Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC), Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), NSF CyberTraining
Topic: Cyberinfrastructure Workforce Development
Solicitation: NSF Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CyberTraining) (23-520)
Host: John MacMullen | MBDH Executive Director View the slides (pdf)
August 16, 2023
Presenter: John MacMullen, Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub
Guest Presenter: Dr. Allison Dennis, NIH Program Officer, National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Topic: Data Science for Biomedical Discovery
Solicitation: NIH NLM Research Grants in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science (R01) (PAR-23-034)
Host: John MacMullen | MBDH Executive Director View the slides (pdf)
July 19, 2023
Presenter: John MacMullen, Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub
Guest Presenter: Dr. Adrienne Dixson, NSF Program Director, NSF INCLUDES program
AI Institute Prior Awardee Guest: Ron Payne, Managing Director, Molecule Maker Lab Institute (MMLI)
INCLUDES Alliance Prior Awardee Guest: Rylan Chong, Co-PI (Chaminade University of Honolulu), Alliance Supporting Pacific Impact through Computational Excellence (ALL-SPICE)
Topic: Connecting Research and Teaching through the INCLUDES Network
Solicitation: NSF Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES) (22-622), with a focus on the new Network Connectors track
Host: John MacMullen | MBDH Executive Director View the slides (pdf)
Co-Host: Ashley Atkins | Executive Director, West Big Data Innovation Hub
June 21, 2023
Presenter: John MacMullen, Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub
Guest Presenter: Dr. Ann Stapleton, USDA NIFA National Program Leader for AFRI Data Science for Food and Agricultural Systems (DSFAS)
Prior Awardee Guests: Luiz Fernando Brito, Associate Professor of Animal Sciences, Purdue University; Gustavo De-Sousa-E-Silva, Assistant Professor of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine, Iowa State University; and Nadia Shakoor, Senior Research Scientist, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Topic: Data Innovations in Agriculture
Solicitation: USDA NIFA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative—Foundational and Applied Science Program (USDA-NIFA-AFRI-009755)
Host: John MacMullen | MBDH Executive Director View the slides (pdf)
May 17, 2023
Presenter: John MacMullen, Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub
Guest Presenter: Kevin Thompson, NSF Program Director, Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC), Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)
Prior Awardee Guests: Grant Scott, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri–Columbia; and Daniel Andresen, Professor of Computer Science, Kansas State University
Topic: Building Regional CI Capacity
Solicitation: NSF Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*) (23-526)
Host: John MacMullen | MBDH Executive Director View the slides (pdf)
April 19, 2023
Presenter: John MacMullen, Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub
Topic: Use-Inspired CI Research and Implementation
Solicitation: NSF CISE Community Research Infrastructure (CCRI) (22-509)—CCRI program now renamed as Community Infrastructure for Research in Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CIRC) (23-589): now due September 8, 2023
Host: John MacMullen | MBDH Executive Director View the slides (pdf)
March 15, 2023
Topic: Building New Data Science Collaborations in the Midwest
Solicitation: NSF Research Coordination Networks (RCN) (23-529)
Host: John MacMullen | MBDH Executive Director View the slides (pdf)
February 15, 2023
Presenter: John MacMullen, Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub
Guest Presenters: Dr. Sandhya Xirasagar, NIH Program Director, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) Office of Genomic Data Science; and Dr. Lucia Hindorff, NIH Program Director, NHGRI Training, Diversity, and Health Equity Office
Topic: Data Science Education and Workforce Development in Genomics
Solicitation: NIH Research Experience in Genomic Research for Data Scientists (R25) (PAR-21-075)
Host: John MacMullen | MBDH Executive Director View the slides (pdf)
January 25, 2023
Presenter: John MacMullen, Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub
Guest Presenter: Dr. Eleanor Sayre, NSF Program Director, Division of Undergraduate Education, Directorate for STEM Education
Prior Awardee Guests: Xiaoxia “Nina” Lin, Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor; Christopher Bartlett, Principal Investigator, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital; and Jennifer Gleason, Associate Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas
Topic: Support for Mid-Career Researchers
Solicitation: NSF Mid-Career Advancement (MCA) (22-603)—Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Host: John MacMullen | MBDH Executive Director View the slides (pdf)
November 17, 2022
Presenter: John MacMullen, Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub
Prior Awardee Guests: Addison (Addy) Carroll, 2nd-year FFAR Fellow in Genetics, Kansas State University; Paul Oladele, 2nd-year FFAR Fellow in Animal Sciences, Purdue University; Sara Tondini, 3rd-year FFAR Fellow in Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Annemarie (Krug) Mysonhimer, 2019–2022 FFAR Fellow in Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (currently a 6th-year doctoral student)
Topic: Early-Career Funding in Agriculture
Solicitation: Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) Fellows Program (FFAR Fellows)
Host: John MacMullen | MBDH Executive Director View the slides (pdf)
October 26, 2022
Prior Awardee Guests: Jim Wilgenbusch, Director of Research Computing, Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota; David Hudak, Executive Director, Ohio Supercomputer Center; Winona Snapp-Childs, Chief Operating Officer, Pervasive Technology Institute, Indiana University; Kevin Brandt, Assistant Vice President for Research Cyberinfrastructure, South Dakota State University; Timothy Middelkoop, Senior Research Engagement Engineer, Internet2; and Michael Zentner, Director of Sustainable Scientific Software, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego
Topic: Next Steps for Collaboration on Midwest CI Workforce Development
Solicitation: NSF Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CyberTraining)
Host: John MacMullen | MBDH Executive Director
September 22, 2022
Presenter: John MacMullen, Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub
Topic: Midwest Workshop on Data for Healthy, Resilient Communities
Solicitations: NIH Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings (R13) (PA-21-151) and AHRQ Conference Grant Programs (R13) (PA-22-238)
Host: John MacMullen | MBDH Executive Director View the slides (pdf)
Co-Host: Dr. Kimberly Zarecor | Professor of Architecture, Iowa State University
Co-Host: Dr. Angie Raymond | Director of Ostrom Workshop Data Management and Information Governance, and Associate Professor of Business Law and Ethics, Indiana University
August 18, 2022
Presenter: John MacMullen, Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub
Guest Presenters: Dr. Peter Atherton, NSF Program Director, POSE Program, and Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)/Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs; and Dr. Deepankar (Deep) Medhi, NSF Program Director, Computer & Network Systems (CNS) Division
Topic: Building Open-Source Ecosystems
Solicitation: NSF Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) Phase II (22-572)
Host: John MacMullen | MBDH Executive Director View the slides (pdf)
July 21, 2022
Presenter: John MacMullen, Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub
Prior Awardee Guests: Yang Wang, Associate Professor of Information and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Sandra Kübler, Professor of Linguistics, Indiana University; and David (Eric) Chan-Tin, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Loyola University of Chicago
Topic: Cybersecurity & Big Data
Solicitation: NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) (22-517)
Host: John MacMullen | MBDH Executive Director View the slides (pdf)
June 16, 2022
Presenter: John MacMullen, Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub
Guest Presenter: Dr. Juan Jenny Li, NSF Program Director, Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC), Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)
Prior Awardee Guests: Sagar Samtani, Assistant Professor of Operations and Decision Technologies, Indiana University; Chia-Fang (Christina) Chung, Assistant Professor of Informatics, Indiana University; Murat Yildirim, Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Wayne State University; and Maoyuan Sun, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Northern Illinois University
Topic: Early-Career Funding
Solicitation: NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) (22-598)—Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Host: John MacMullen | MBDH Executive Director View the slides (pdf)
May 19, 2022
Presenter: John MacMullen, Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub
Guest Presenter: Dr. Fenglou Mao, NIH Program Officer, NIH Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS)
Lightning Talk Presenter: Franco Delogu, Associate Professor of Psychology, Lawrence Technological University [Slides (pdf)]
Prior Awardee Guests: Fengjun Li, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Kansas; and Mei Liu, Associate Professor of Medical Informatics, University of Kansas Medical Center
Topic: Multidisciplinary Data Science in Health
Solicitation: NSF/NIH Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science (SCH) (NSF 21-530)
Host: John MacMullen | MBDH Executive Director View the slides (pdf)
Co-Host: Dr. Ivo Dinov | Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan
April 21, 2022
Presenter: John MacMullen, Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub
Prior Awardee Guests: David Crandall, Professor of Computer Science, Indiana University; Katherine (Kay) Connelly, Professor of Informatics, Indiana University; Andrew Margenot, Assistant Professor of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Kimberly Marion Suiseeya, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University; and Deepak Khazanchi, Professor of Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis, University of Nebraska–Omaha
Topic: Building Smart and Resilient Communities
Solicitation: NSF Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC) (22-529)
Host: John MacMullen | MBDH Executive Director View the slides (pdf)
March 17, 2022
Presenter: John MacMullen, Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub
Guest Presenter: Dr. Alan Sussman, NSF Program Director, Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC)
Prior Awardee Guests: Elaina Sutley, Associate Professor of Structural Engineering, University of Kansas; and Matt Daly, Assistant Professor of Materials Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago
Topic: Early-Career Funding
Solicitation: NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER): Includes the description of NSF Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) (20-525)—Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Host: John MacMullen | MBDH Executive Director View the slides (pdf)
February 17, 2022
Presenter: John MacMullen, Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub
Guest Presenter: Dr. Ann Stapleton, USDA NIFA National Program Leader for AFRI DSFAS
Prior Awardee Guests: Zhou Zhang, Assistant Professor of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Bhuwan Thapa (representing Sarah Lovell), Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Missouri; Malia Gehan, Principal Investigator, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center; and Cristina Connolly, Assistant Professor of Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of Connecticut
Topic: Data in Food and Agriculture
Solicitation: USDA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative—Foundational and Applied Science Program—Data Science for Food and Agricultural Systems (DSFAS) program (USDA-NIFA-AFRI-007692)—DSFAS priority area due date has been changed: now due November 17, 2022
Host: John MacMullen | MBDH Executive Director View the slides (pdf)
January 13, 2022
Presenter: John MacMullen, Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub
Prior Awardee Guest: Jessica Faul, Research Associate Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
Topic: Data Science Education and Workforce Development in Genomics
Solicitation: NIH Research Experience in Genomic Research for Data Scientists (R25) (PAR-21-075)
Host: John MacMullen | MBDH Executive Director View the slides (pdf)
Co-Host: Dr. Ivo Dinov | Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan
November 18, 2021
Presenter: John MacMullen, Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub
Prior Awardee Guests: Raghu Machiraju, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University; and Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Professor of Engineering, Iowa State University
Topic: AI in the Midwest
Solicitation: NSF National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes: Accelerating Research, Transforming Society, and Growing the American Workforce (22-502)—NSF National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes Program Webinar Video and Slides (November 16, 2021)—Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Host: John MacMullen | MBDH Executive Director View the slides (pdf)
October 21, 2021
Presenter: John MacMullen, Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub
Prior Awardee Guests: Karen Tomko, Director of Research Software Applications, Ohio Supercomputer Center; and Daniel Lapine, Senior Technical Program Manager, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Topic: Cyberinfrastructure Workforce Development
Solicitation: NSF Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CyberTraining)
Host: John MacMullen | MBDH Executive Director View the slides (pdf)
September 28, 2021
Presenter: John MacMullen, Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub
Topic: Cyberinfrastructure
Solicitations: NSF Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) and NSF CISE Community Research Infrastructure (CCRI)—CCRI solicitation updated: now due January 11, 2022
Host: John MacMullen | MBDH Executive Director View the slides (pdf)