This workshop activity gathers US and India researchers to explore collaboration opportunities in Computational and Data-Enabled Science & Engineering (CDS&E). The overall goal is to eventually establish a virtual institute as a coordinating entity for ongoing research and joint collaborations. The workshop is co-located with the International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC) in Bengaluru, India. Intellectual merit and broader impact are noted as in the outcomes that will focus on paths forward for joint research activities and identification of effective models for lasting and powerful collaborative research among US and India.
This is the era of large-scale computation, data and observation. Computational and Data-intensive applications are at the forefront of research in this decade. Research and education in converting massive data in to useful knowledge is key to future discoveries, innovation and economic development. Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E) is now clearly recognizable as a distinct intellectual and technological discipline lying at the intersection of applied mathematics, statistics, computer science, core science and engineering disciplines. It is dedicated to the development and use of computational methods and data mining and management systems to enable scientific discovery and engineering innovation. CDS&E has become an increasingly important dimension of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) research and education, and current and planned investments at NSF (e.g., CIF21) and India in CDS&E make this an opportune time to foster and nurture collaborations among CDS&E researchers towards addressing common challenges that can have a significant global societal impact. This award partially supported 3 workshops, which involved the participation of leading researchers and industrial leaders from the US and India. The immediate objective of this series of workshops was to explore opportunities for synergy and collaboration between researchers in the US and India in the area of CDS&E. The longer-term goal was to establish a virtual institute that will provide a hub of excellence in CDS&E and catalyze new thinking, paradigms, and practices in STEM research and education. Typical workshop programs consisted of presentations and panel sessions by researchers from the universities, national laboratories and industrial laboratories in in the US and India.
