News

11/08/2022 [EVENT]
The 2022 Advances in Public Safety Technology Workshop will take place at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab. Dr. Tao participated in the discussion on how technology will play a critical role in developing more effective public safety solutions.

11/07/2022 [EVENT]
2022 5th IEEE 5G Workshop on First Responder and Tactical Networks took place at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab. Dr. Tao gave an invited lightning talk on Roadmap for a Digital-Twin Enabled Testbed for Public Safety Communication Technologies.

10/28/2022 [EVENT]
The AI3 Prize Competition sponsors and organizers hosted an informational webinar in late October 2022. The TAU group is in charge of the technical component of the competition.

10/23/2022 [GRANT]
Dr. Tao was selected as an ADVANCE NCFDD Faculty Success Fellow for Spring 2023.

10/21/2022 [GRANT]
The Digtial Twin Lab led by Dr. Tao is one of the two new Thematic Labs announced by the Texas A&M Institute of Data Science.

10/21/2022 [EVENT]
Alyssa Cassity, Hieu Le, and Sree Kiran Prasad Vadaga presented 3 posters at the Conference on Adances in Data Science: Theory, Method and Computtation.

10/10/2022 [EVENT]
The Fall kickoff meeting of the SAE AutoDrive Challenge II took place at the University of Michigan. Dr. Tao is a faculty advisor of the Texas A&M AutoDrive Challenge II Team and attended the meeting.

09/09/2022 [TEAM]
Dr. Tao serves as the Testbed Committee Co-Chair of the IEEE Public Safety Technology Initiative.

08/17/2022 [TEAM]
Samira Vafa will join the Gordon Center for Medical Imaging at Harvard Medical School as a postdoc researcher in October 2022. Congratulations!

08/05/2022 [EVENT]
Texas A&M and US Ignite announced the Smart Communities, Smart Responders – AI for IoT Information (AI3) Prize Competition.

07/15/2022 [EVENT]
Samira Vafay gave a TAMIDS Tech Talk on Neural Architecture Search for Magnetic Resonance Image Reconstructions.

06/15/2022 [GRANT]
The Texas A&M team led by Dr. Tao was awarded $1.2M for the NIST Public Safety Innovation Accelerator Program 2022 (PSIAP-2022) program.

05/10/2022 [TEAM]
Revanth Reddy will work at Amazon as an intern in the summer of 2022. Congratulations!

05/06/2022 [TEAM]
Nina Kang will graduate and join Goldman Sachs in May 2022. Congratulations!

05/06/2022 [TEAM]
Sree Kiran Prasad got an internship at NVIDIA in the summer of 2022. Congratulations!

04/28/2022 [TEAM]
Samira Vafay successfully defended her thesis on Convolutional Neural Network Optimization and Parallel Compressive Sensing Algorithms for Accelerated MRI Reconstruction. Congratulations!

04/22/2022 [GRANT]
Dr. Tao is among the seven awardees of the Texas A&M Institute of Data Science Career Initiation Fellow Program. The program was designed to provide early career support to faculty working in any area involving Data Science and to encourage them to propose engagements with TAMIDS activities, programs, or broader mission, to be undertaken during the year of the award. Each Fellow received a $10,000 research bursary.

02/17/2022 [EVENT]
The Texas A&M Institute of Data Science kick started the Data Science Ambassador Scholarship Program that solicits applications from Texas A&M Ph.D. students who wish to serve as representatives for TAMIDS and champions for Data Science literacy in their departments. Dr. Jian Tao serves as the Program Advisor

02/15/2022 [EVENT]
Dr. Tao helped organize the 2022 Student Data Science Competition hosted by Texas A&M Institute of Data Science.

02/14/2022 [GRANT]
Dr. Tao and Andre Thomas received a grant through the TAMIDS Course Development Program to develop a course on digital twins.

02/08/2022 [EVENT]
Dr. Tao hosted the Online Digital Twin Workshop to help identify and bring together members of the academic community at Texas A&M who are interested in studying and building digital twins.

02/01/2022 [GRANT]
The Texas A&M team co-led by Dr. Jian Tao was awarded nearly $1.2M for the NIST Public Safety Innovation Accelerator Program - Artificial Intelligence for IoT Information (PSAIP - AI3) program.

01/21/2022 [GRANT]
The TAU Group received a subaward for a project funded by NSF on West Coast Fisheries Management. The PI of the project is Dr. Piers Chapman.

01/19/2022 [GRANT]
The TAU Group received a subaward to work on one of the 2021 Catalyst Fund Projects to develop research intelligence tools that contribute to the VIVO platform: an open-source software development project. The PI of the Texas A&M team is Dr. Bruce Herbert.

01/15/2022 [TEAM]
Revanth Reddy, a Master’s student from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering joined the group.

01/15/2022 [TEAM]
Two Ph.D. candidates from the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Hieu Le and David Santos joined the group.

01/06/2022 [EVENT]
The TAU Group represented by Sree Kiran Prasad Vadaga and Dr. Jian Tao was selected as one of the 12 teams (49 participants total) to compete for the Food for Thought international competition organized by USDA and Coleridge Initiative

12/01/2021 [TEAM]
Samira Vafay Eslahi (Co-chaired by Dr. Jian Tao with Dr. Jim Ji from ECE), a Ph.D. candidate from the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering joined the group.

11/01/2021 [TEAM]
Alyssa Cassity, an undergraduate student from the Department of Visualization, and Nina Kang, an undergraduate student from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering (Minors in Mathematics & Statistics) joined the group.

10/01/2021 [TEAM]
Sree Kiran Prasad Vadaga, a graduate student in the Master of Science in Data Science program joined the group.

09/01/2021 [GRANT]
In September 2021, the Texas A&M team co-led by Dr. Jian Tao was awarded more than $900,000 for the Public Safety Innovation Accelerator Program: Public Safety Radio Data Grant.

09/01/2021 [TEAM]
Dr. Jian Tao was appointed as the Assistant Director of the Texas A&M Institute of Data Science. He will be primarily responsible for the development of research projects relevant to data science.

09/01/2021 [TEAM]
Dr. Jian Tao joined the Department of Visualization in the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. The TAU Group was born.