Data-Driven Discovery

Data fuels important decisions at every level of society. The exponential growth and availability of big data presents numerous challenges and opportunities. It is voluminous, fast, increasingly complex, and comes in a range of formats. But if managed effectively, big data can deliver powerful benefits. It can result in more accurate analyses in fields ranging from health care to genomics to business informatics to physics. More accurate analyses lead to more confident decision-making. And better decisions can mean greater operational efficiencies, cost reductions, and decreased risk.

Quick Hits

Computer science Professor Gautam Das, Assistant Professor Won Hwa Kim, and alumna Senjuti Basu Roy are helping make data more usable by increasing the role of humans in the data science pipeline.

Computer science Professor Sharma Chakravarthy is investigating ways to develop a process by which data points in multiple graph layers of a large dataset can be connected in a highly scalable way that also allows analysts to look at it in greater depth.

Electrical engineering Professor Frank Lewis and Associate Professors Yan Wan and Ali Davoudi are working to improve control of networked convoys that include autonomous vehicles and those operated by humans.

Data-Driven Discovery Stories

Cancer Care

Refining lung cancer treatments

Researchers from UTA and UT Southwestern (UTSW) Medical Center are teaming up to develop a biopsy image analysis system that...

Pointed

Better data for robots

Using a new field of applied mathematics, a UT Arlington computer scientist hopes to enhance the perception capabilities of robots....

On Time

Physicist aims to expand reach of particle detector

Assistant Professor Jonathan Asaadi is one of just 76 scientists nationwide to earn this year’s U.S. Department of Energy Early...