CyberShARE Center of Excellence
Computational Knowledge and Resources for Research and Education
Ann Gates1, Aaron Velasco2, Craig Tweedie3, Leticia Velasquez4, Miguel Argaez4, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva1, Vladik Kreinovich1
The University of Texas at El Paso
1Computer
Science Department; 2Geological Sciences Department; 3Environmental Sciences Department; 4Mathematical Sciences
Department
(agates, aavelasco, ctweedie, leti, margaez, paulo, vladik)@utep.edu
Mission and Goals
To advance and integrate education and
research in uncertainty, trust, and
optimization in support of
cyberinfrastructures and to develop
scientist-centered software services and
tools that encourage collaborative and
interdisciplinary research approaches.
A Quest to Understand
and Trust Scientific
Results
Computer Science Project
Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Vladik Kreinovich,
and Ann Gates
Goals:
• Enhance cyber-results with provenance
The goals of the Center are to:
1. create a CI-enabled synergistic
environment to support advances in
earth and environmental science
2. train and educate a new generation
of computer and interdisciplinary
scientists
Geoscience-Integrated
Analysis for
Development of
3-D Models of Earth
Structure
• Extend provenance to include
uncertainty models
• Compute levels of uncertainty from
uncertainty-enhanced provenance
• Extend provenance to include trust
models
• Compute trust recommendations from
trust-enhanced provenance
Earth Science Project
Aaron Velasco, Leticia Velazquez,
Miguel Argaez, and Vladik Kreinovich
Goals:
• Advance knowledge in the physical
properties of the earth by developing
data fusion methods for integrating data
with varying accuracy and sensitivity
• Quantify assumed and measured data
parameters required in the modeling
process using multiple expressions of
uncertainty
• Modify the modeling process to handle
multiple functions of parameter
uncertainty and minimize error
Dr. Ann Gates with
Ph.D. students
Aida Gandara and
Irbis Gallegos.
• Provide better evaluation of goodness of
fit
Cyber-ShARE actively
recruits and funds
undergraduate and
graduate students, in
particular students from
underserved groups, to
conduct fundamental
research associated
with Cyber-ShARE
projects.
funded by grant
HRD-0734825
Advancing the Utility of
Cyberinfrastructure in
the Environmental
Sciences
Environmental Science Project
Craig Tweedie and Vladik Kreinovich
Goals:
• Optimize data streams and sensor
arrays in ecological and environmental
networks by targeting improved
characterization of environmental
phenomena and processes
• Develop quality assurance and
optimization tools for advanced static
field-based instrumentation that improve
characterization of environmental tipping
points and stochastic events
• Develop tools for integrating voluminous
data streams from movable sensor
platforms
• Customize back-end tools that link,
spatially extrapolate, and animate real
time and archived data
Geological Sciences Postdoctoral Researcher Musa Hussein
and Computer Science Ph.D. students Omar Ochoa and
Leonardo Salayandia discussing crustal modeling semantic
abstract workflows
Opportunities
UTEP Computational Science, Computer Science, and Geology
students/staff conducting seismic field work in the East Potrillo
Mountains, near El Paso, Texas.
• Undergraduate Research Experiences
• Scholars Program
• Distinguished Lecturer Series
• Visiting researcher program
• Workshops for students, teachers,
scientists
• Opportunities to share resources through
web portals
Contact Information
http://cybershare.utep.edu
Executive Director: Rodrigo Romero
(raromero2@utep.edu)
Geology Building, room 124
The University of Texas at El Paso
500 West University Ave., El Paso, Texas, 79902, USA
Phone: (915) 747-5916, Fax: (915) 747-7871
Environmental Science Ph.D. Santonu Goswani in Alaska.