Surfing the Tidal Wave of Data

Surfing the Tidal Wave of Data

At the dawn of a new information age, Cathy Wu’s star keeps rising Cathy Wu, like a lot of college students, was having a hard time finding her way. The year was 1982, and the young woman who would become UD’s data-science guru was facing a quandary familiar to female...
Digital Boot Camp Helps Researchers Expand Coding Skills

Digital Boot Camp Helps Researchers Expand Coding Skills

Two-day event helps 87 upgrade code for high-performance computing A two-day digital boot camp hosted by the University of Delaware helped 87 participating scientists ramp up their data analysis skills. The July event, held in partnership with GPUhackathon.org, was...
Illicit Mineral Trade

Illicit Mineral Trade

Interdisciplinary UD team to map global illicit trade in energy-critical materials Even in an era of information overload, where it seems like no piece of information can slip through the cracks without being scrutinized, when it comes to the shipment and supply of...
Data Science Leader

Data Science Leader

Cathy Wu, director of UD’s Data Science Institute, discusses the future of this fast-growing field A tidal wave of data seems to flow from us and around us every day. The University of Delaware’s Cathy Wu is helping the world figure out how to handle, protect and make...
Programming the Soon-to-Be World’s Fastest Supercomputer

Programming the Soon-to-Be World’s Fastest Supercomputer

UD’s Chandrasekaran leads team on the exascale frontier What’s it like designing an app for the world’s fastest supercomputer, set to come online in the United States in 2021? The University of Delaware’s Sunita Chandrasekaran is leading an elite international team in...
Highly Cited Researchers

Highly Cited Researchers

Seven UD professors named to 2020 global list Seven University of Delaware professors have been named to the 2020 Highly Cited Researchers list from Clarivate, the global analytics company. The annual list identifies researchers who have demonstrated significant...