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IDIES Director Alex Szalay elected to National Academy of Sciences
IDIES Director Alex Szalay was among the 120 scientists elected as a member of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences for 2023.

Announcing the 2023 IDIES Summer Student Fellows
In its commitment to nurturing the already burgeoning growth of student-led data-intensive research at Johns Hopkins, The Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES) has the privilege of providing

Announcing the 2023 IDIES Seed Funding Awardees
Every fall, The Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES) offers its members the chance to receive up to $25,000 in grant funding for eligible data-intensive research projects.

Our Team is Growing—IDIES Employment Opportunities
We have several opportunities for you to become part of our team at the Institute of Data Intensive Engineering and Science at Johns Hopkins University. We’re currently hiring for Software Developers (Junior and Senior), a Senior Grants & Contracts Analyst, an Administrative Manager, a Dev Ops Engineer, and a Data Scientist/Scientific Software Developer.

IDIES Selects 2022 Seed and Fellowship Awardees
Each year IDIES—The Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science—offers its members and students funding opportunities through their Seed Funding Initiative and Summer Student Fellowships. The goal of the

Dr. Nicolas Giraldo Awarded 2022 USCAP Benjamin Castleman Award
AstroPath team member emeritus Dr. Nicolas Giraldo-Castillo was just awarded the 2022 Benjamin Castleman Award by the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) for his previous work on Astropath with Dr. Taube. The award is granted for an outstanding paper in the field of pathology published during the preceding year.

Alexander Szalay, Ph.D. and Janis Taube, M.D., M.Sc., receive Life Sciences 2021 award for AstroPath at Falling Walls Science Summit
“The Johns Hopkins submission titled “Breaking the Wall to Mapping Cancer Using Multispectral Microscopy” was selected from hundreds of entries for the AstroPath platform design. AstroPath is a new, comprehensive platform for imaging and mapping microscopic sections of tumors to identify and validate predictive biomarkers to guide precision immunotherapies for cancer.”

IDIES 2022 Research Funding Opportunities
For the ninth year, the Institute of Data Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES) will offer its Seed Funding Initiative. IDIES Seed research funding offers faculty and research teams a one-year, $25,000 pilot award for data-intensive computing projects in order to promote the growth of data-intensive, multidisciplinary, multi-investigator sponsored projects at Johns Hopkins University.

Intel adopts IDIES load balancer technology
IDIES researchers Alan Liu and Vladimir Braverman have developed a new strategy for managing traffic to websites that has been adopted by the Intel software stack, which powers millions of

Associate Director, Charles Meneveau talks about the large-scale ocean wind farm project, Vineyard Wind
“We are building towards a major infrastructure change,” said Meneveau. “It points to a future where many of these could exist.”

Team of SDSS Members Honored with 2021 SIGMOD Systems Award
I am pleased to report that the Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named a team of SDSS members the

Next-generation Database will Democratize Access to Massive Amounts of Turbulence Data
The project will provide access to and the manageable download of more than 2.5 million gigabytes of data for modeling turbulent flows Written by Lisa Ercolano and Caroline Swartz Led