IDI-BD2KINCREASING DIVERSITY IN INTERDISCIPLINARY BIG DATA TO KNOWLEDGENIH 1R25MD010399-01 (09/25/2015 – 06/30/2020)

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PATRIC IA ORDÓÑEZ, PHD

University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras Campus College of Natural Sciences

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IDI- BD2K Goals•Increase Diversity of BD2K Research Community for both student and faculty populations•Increase Biomedical Big Data Research on campus•Increase Interdisciplinary Research on campus•Provide Interdisciplinary Biomedical Big Data research experiences at top BD2K research institutions

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Collaborating BD2K Centers• Patient-Centered Information Commons

Harvard University Medical School • Center for Causal Modeling and Discovery of Biomedical

Knowledge from Big Data University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh

• Center for Big Data in Translational Genomics University of California Santa Cruz

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IDI- BD2K Student Development

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IDI-BD2K Faculty DevelopmentOpen to full-time faculty members of the College of Natural Sciences and their collaborators.

Activities:• Workshops, seminars and hackathons (as participants and/or

mentors)• Short sabbaticals, summer research experiences, workshops and

other activities at the collaborating BD2K centers. • A call for funding faculty developmental activities will be done once a

year.

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Course Sequence for Undergraduates

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Some Accomplishments• BBD1 course offered twice and BBD2 offered once• The first cohort of students interned at our partner BD2K centers last summer

(10 students, all of Hispanic origin, 7 women)• 58 students on mailing list• Seven students have registered for BBD1 course.• Hacking Health in the Caribbean on November 2015 as part of Symposium of

Health Informatics in Latin America and the Caribbean - over 135 researchers and students participated

• Several professional seminars and a workshop on Causal Discovery

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Greatest Accomplishment IMHO

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Future Work• Three students participating in Quantitative Biology Workshop at MIT in

January 2017• Seminar and a workshop on Causal Discovery in January 2017• Offer BBD2 course in the spring 2017• Replicathon and Data Carpentry Workshop in March 2017• Continue with monthly professional activities• Possibly Data Science or Big Data Certification• Datathon in 2017-2018 academic year

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Key Personnel• Principal Investigators

oJosé E. García Arrarás, Department of Biology, UPRRPoPatricia Ordóñez, Department of Computer Science, UPRRPoMaría-Eglée Pérez, Department of Mathematics, UPRRP

• Other Key PersonneloHumberto Ortiz-Zuazaga, Department of Computer Science, UPRRPoLuis Raúl Pericchi, Department of Mathematics, UPRRPoRafael Irizarry, Harvard School of Public Health

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Additional IDI-BD2K Participating Faculty/Mentors

•Ioannis Koutis, Department of Computer Science, UPRRP

•Remi Maigret, Department of Computer Science, UPRRP

•Steve E. Massey, Department of Biology, UPRRP

•Miguel A. Acevedo, Department of Biology, UPRRP

• Abiel Roche, UPR Medical Sciences Campus

•José Conde, UPR Medical Sciences Campus

•Filipa Godoy-Vitorino, Department of Biology, Inter-American University, Metro Campus.

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Questions or Comments?

• Patricia Ordóñez, Department of Computer Science, UPRRP• patricia.ordonez@upr.edu• pattiordonez@gmail.com

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