Projects
Pulley Ridge
Pulley Ridge is a 100+km long series of N/S trending, underwater barrier islands on the SW Florida Shelf (approximately 250 km west of Cape Sable). A relatively healthy mesophotic (mid-light)
Santa Cruz del Islote
The weekend before Thanksgiving, UM School of Architecture Prof. Adib Cure was working with CCS’s Software Engineering program at Santa Cruz del Islote, off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia, continuing
Historic Coral Gables
The 26-story tower of the historic Biltmore Hotel rises majestically into the sky over Coral Gables. Visible for miles, it’s an icon, a landmark on the National Historic Register, and a
Vistapolis
A project to produce a common codebase from which we can draw to develop geospatial applications for smart cities and other applications. Also, a general purpose web-based application. The Vistapolis
Zenciti, Yucatán, MEXICO
In March 2016, the University of Miami announced a hemispheric collaboration between its Center for Computational Science (CCS) and the Yucatán State Government’s Information Technologies Innovation Center known as “Heuristic“,
Automated Plankton Classification
The overall goal of this project was to process a digital image data collected using the In Situ Ichthyoplankton Imaging System (ISIIS) during the summer of 2011. These data were
Mapping of Informal Cities
High Resolution Imaging and High Accuracy Mapping of Informal Cities More than half the current global population lives in cities. United Nations projections estimate that this number will rise to
Miami Affordability Project (MAP)
MAP: The Miami Affordability Project Housing affordability is a significant and growing challenge in Miami-Dade County, as it is in numerous metropolitan regions around the nation. Access to housing that
Mikvé Israel Emanuel Synagogue
The shifting sands on the floor inside the Western Hemisphere’s oldest continuously operating synagogue Mikvé Israel-Emanuel in Willemstad, Curaçao posed some unique challenges to students and researchers.
Participatory Mapping Las Flores
Supported by funding from the National Geographic Society, with additional support from Tecnoglass and the UM Center from Computational Science) the goal of this project was to facilitate participatory mapping in the informal community of Las Flores in Barranquilla, Colombia.
Magic Leap The U Experience
By combining their creativity with powerful computing tools, University of Miami graduate students Maria Aguilar and Manouj Govindaraju crafted an extended reality (XR) application to welcome incoming freshman. Now, campus
High Resolution Global Climate Modeling
Access to high-performance computing and big-data analytics is essential to producing Earth system models.
xSAT Covid-19 Dashboard
IDSC has developed a first-of-its-kind early-detection platform for COVID-19 xsat.idsc.miami.edu that enables local residents to self-report symptoms, and researchers and decision makers to visualize data and identify hot spots. By
Nuestra Señora de la Merced
University of Miami art history students have access to an augmented reality (AR) application to explore Colonial Spanish paintings and architecture, thanks to a collaboration between IDSC and the College
Covid-19 Wastewater Testing
South Florida RAD: Using Wastewater Measurements to Predict COVID-19 in the Community The University of Miami (UM) and Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) established a collaborative study for human and environmental surveillance of
Ground-Breaking Rainfall Study
A new study has identified connections between oscillations in the Gulf Stream and long-term rainfall expectations in the Southeastern U.S.—a finding made possible by the supercomputing resources at the University
COVID-19 Transmission Model
An innovative University of Miami (UM) COVID-19 study has demonstrated the power of applying advanced computer resources to understanding viral transmission rates. The collaborative UM research team conducted a granular
Sustainable Environmental Habits App
A University of Miami team led by a Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing (IDSC) core faculty member has been recognized for developing an innovative mobile application to support
Next-G Wireless Networks
Congratulations to IDSC core faculty member Dr. Mingzhe Chen on his award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his proposal ‘‘Collaborative Research: NeTS: Small: Digital Network Twins: Mapping Next Generation Wireless into Digital
VR Enhances Maternal Mental Health
Virtual reality (VR) headsets have mostly been popularized by children—and some adults—playing immersive video games. But a team of researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine led
Boosting Product Development
When Yelena Yesha, PhD, was hired at the Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing (IDSC) three years ago, part of her charge was to take the groundbreaking research being done
Polarized Networks in Social Media
What drives the polarization of political opinions on social media? How do “echo chambers” of like-minded friends evolve over time? Are there ways to depolarize these networks and bring individuals
Displacement Vulnerability Mitigation Tool
For many years, Miami Law’s Environmental Justice Clinic has been an advocate for vulnerable minority communities facing development pressure. Now, the Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing (IDSC) has partnered with
Mangrove City VR Experience
“Mangrove City“, a VR experience geared towards educating middle schoolers on the crucial role mangrove forests play in protecting coastal communities and mitigating climate change, took home the XR prize
Addressing NASA Satellite Security
Five years ago, representatives from telecommunications companies approached Yelena Yesha in a panic. As they sent more and more satellites into orbit around the Earth, the potential risks for hacking grew with
Predicting El Niño and La Niña
For forty years, climate scientists have been trying to develop a computational model that accurately predicts the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon. But that work has stagnated in recent years with
County Project Maps Human Activity
Christopher Mader laughs when thinking about his first test runs with drones. It was seven years ago and the data scientist at the University of Miami’s Institute for Data Science and
Ophthalmology Training in the UMVerse
Ophthalmologist Giselle Ricur, M.D., has been promoting telemedicine for decades, but it wasn’t until COVID hit in early 2020 that she started making major headway. “The pandemic came, and we accomplished
AquaX Laboratory Opens
We are excited to announce the opening of the “AquaX Laboratory” a cutting-edge ensemble modeling framework that encompasses the next generation of AquaMaps (aquamaps.org), along with several other species distribution