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Nirav Merchant will be serving as the Interim Director of CB2. He is currently the Director, UA Data Science Institute (Data7) as wel as the Co-PI for NSF CyVerse a national scale Cyberinfrastructure for life sciences and NSF Jetstream the first user-friendly, scalable cloud environment for NSF XSEDE. He received his undergraduate degree in Industrial engineering from the University of Pune, India, and graduate degree in Systems and Industrial Engineering from the University of Arizona (1994). Over the last two decades, his research has been directed towards developing scalable computational platforms for supporting open science and open innovation, with emphasis on improving research productivity for geographically distributed interdisciplinary teams. Show Less
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Courses
- ACCApplied Cyberinfrastructure Concepts
Grants
- Precision Aging Network: Closing the Gap Between Cognitive Healthspan and Human Lifespan
Co-Investigator (COI)
2021
$24.2M
Active - Track D: Hidden Water and Extreme Events: HydroGEN, A Physically Rigorous Machine Learning Platform for Hydrologic Scenario Generation
Co-Investigator (COI)
2021
$5.0M
Active - Community-Engagement Research Alliance Against COVID-19 in Disproportionately Affected Communities
Co-Investigator (COI)
2021
$2.7M
Active - Track D: Hidden Water and Extreme Events: HydroGEN, A Physically Rigorous Machine Learning Platform for Hydrologic Scenario Generation
Co-Investigator (COI)
2021
$2.4M
Active - XGEO Space Domain Awareness from Ground Based Optical Telescopes
Co-Investigator (COI)
2021
$2.1M
Active - Community-Engagement Research Alliance Against COVID-19 in Disproportionately Affected Communities
Co-Investigator (COI)
2021
$1.9M
Active - STC: Center for Research On Programmable Plant Systems
Co-Investigator (COI)
2021
$961.8K
Active - Precision Aging Network: Closing the Gap Between Cognitive Healthspan and Human Lifespan
Co-Investigator (COI)
2021
$943.9K
Active - AI Institute: AIIRA: Al Institute for Resilient Agriculture
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$496.7K
Active - CPS: Frontier: Collaborative Research: COALESCE: COntext Aware LEarning for Sustainable CybEr-agricultural systems
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$489.8K
Active
Technologies / Patents
News
- Researchers Develop Tools to Listen, Talk to Plants with $25M from NSF
2021
- HydroGEN Project Awarded $5M to Model National Water Resources Using Machine Learning
2021
- CyVerse Receives $1.3M to Provide Cyberinfrastructure and Training for New NSF Artificial Intelligence Institute
2021
- UArizona Health Sciences Researchers to Study Long COVID as Part of National Collaborative
2021
- UArizona Launches Texting System to Gather and Provide COVID-19 Information
2020
- Hotter and Drier With a Chance of Extinction: Forecasting Biodiversity With Big Data
2020
- Two UArizona Researchers Receive $1M Grants to Advance Cyberinfrastructure and Quantum Sensing
2020
- Developing a Diverse Workforce To End the Alzheimer’s Epidemic
2019
- Machines as Co-Workers: A New Era Is Upon Us
2018
- Citizen Science Program Has a Research Payoff
2018
- 'Humans, Data and Machines' Is Theme of UA Science Series
2018
- CyVerse Receives Third NSF Award for Enabling Data Science
2018
- Students Use CyVerse to Help Predict Mosquito-Borne Diseases
2017
- UA Researchers Launch App to Help Track Zika Virus
2016
- Open Access Causes Disruption of Status Quo
2016
- NSF's iPlant Collaborative Rebrands to CyVerse
2016
- Between Netflix and Big Data
2015
- Parker Antin: Leading Life Science Initiatives
2015
- When Job Loss Equals Weight Gain
2014
- New Platform Takes Science to the Clouds
2014
- UA-Led Research Collaborative Awarded $50M to Advance Cyberinfrastructure for the Life Sciences
2013
- UA Researchers Create a Leaner, Greener Computer Cluster
2008
- University Receives IBM Grant for Massive Virtual Storage System
2005
- Scientists to Annotate Bacteria Genome at UA
2002
Publications (116)
Recent
- PhytoOracle: Scalable, modular phenomics data processing pipelines
2023
- Interpretation and Use of Applied/Operational Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Surgery
2023
- Zero-Shot Insect Detection via Weak Language Supervision
2023
- Design and implementation of a health messaging protocol employed for use within a COVID-19 health dissemination platform
2022
- MegaStitch: Robust Large-Scale Image Stitching
2022
- Linking Extragalactic Transients and Their Host Galaxy Properties: Transient Sample, Multiwavelength Host Identification, and Database Construction
2022
- Lessons Learned Building a National Platform for Physically Rigorous Machine Learning and Hydrologic Simulation Across the US
2022
- Acquisition Innovation Research Center: Innovation for Digital Transformation and Policy Analytics
2022
- A local platform for user-friendly FAIR data management and reproducible analytics
2021
- Jetstream2: Accelerating cloud computing via Jetstream
2021
- SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen testing of symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals on the university of arizona campus
2021
- iVirus 2.0: Cyberinfrastructure-supported tools and data to power DNA virus ecology
2021
- Looking for the-scape in the sound: Discriminating soundscapes categories in the Sonoran Desert using indices and clustering
2021
- Lessons learned designing the HydroGEN machine learning platform for hydrologic exploration: a story of collaboration between hydrologic scientists, software developers …
2021
- Ten simple rules to cultivate transdisciplinary collaboration in data science
2021
- Jetstream NSF Annual Report December 1, 2020–November 30, 2021
2021
- StarBLAST: a scalable BLAST+ solution for the classroom
2021
- UAS-based plant phenotyping for research and breeding applications
2021
- Ten simple rules for organizing a data science workshop
2020
- Community-Level health promotion during a pandemic: key considerations for health communication
2020
- Jetstream NSF Annual Report December 1, 2019–November 30, 2020
2020
- Deep learning classification of chest X-ray images
2020
- Sustaining community-driven software for astronomy in the 2020s
2019
- Get a Grip on Your Data Science Tools with CyVerse VICE (Visual Interactive Computing Environment)
2019
- Jetstream (NSF Award 1445604) Annual Report: December 1, 2018–November 28, 2019
2019
- Demystifying Machine Learning
2019
- Jetstream: A novel cloud system for science
2019
- Forecasting future global biodiversity: Predicting current and future global plant distributions, community structure, and ecosystem function
2019
- Scale Your Science with Community Cyberinfrastructure
2019
- WQ-MAKER: Scaling genome annotation with MAKER using distributed computing and cloud resources on Jetstream cloud
2019
- Ehealth and intervention platform
2018
- Jetstream NSF Annual Report December 1, 2017–November 30, 2018
2018
- The principles of tomorrow's university [version 1; referees: 2 approved]
2018
- Human-Centric Programming in the Large-Command Languages to Scalable Cyber Training
2018
- CyVerse: a ten-year perspective on cyberinfrastructure development, collaboration, and community building
2018
- Human-centric programming in the large - Command languages to scalable cyber training
2018
- GRAM: Global research activity map
2018
- The principles of tomorrow's university
2018
- MAKER as a service: Moving HPC applications to jetstream cloud
2018
- Jetstream Stakeholder Advisory Board Meeting February 2017: Presenters’ Report
2017
- CyVerse Data Commons: lessons learned in cyberinfrastructure management and data hosting from the Life Sciences
2017
- Computing at scale: From laptop to cloud and HPC
2017
- Jetstream (NSF Award 1445604) Program Year 3 Annual Report (December 1, 2016–November 28, 2017)
2017
- An ALMA and MagAO Study of the Substellar Companion GQ Lup B∗
2017
- Aboriginal Australian mitochondrial genome variation - An increased understanding of population antiquity and diversity
2017
- System Acceptance Report for NSF award 1445604” High Performance Computing System Acquisition: Jetstream-A Self-Provisioned, Scalable Science and Engineering Cloud Environment”
2016
- Evaluating the Public Health Impact of a Community-Based Family-Focused Diabetes Prevention Program Using RE-AIM
2016
- The Genetic History of Peruvian Quechua-Lamistas and Chankas: Uniparental DNA Patterns among Autochthonous Amazonian and Andean Populations
2016
- Bringing your tools to CyVerse discovery environment using Docker
2016
- A New Approach to Space Domain Awareness at the University of Arizona
2016
- xGDBvm: A web GUI-driven workflow for annotating eukaryotic genomes in the cloud
2016
- High Performance Computing System Acquisition: Jetstream–A Self-Provisioned, Scalable Science and Engineering Cloud Environment (Year 1 Annual Report)
2016
- Scaling GIS analysis tasks from the desktop to the cloud utilizing contemporary distributed computing and data management approaches: A case study of project-based learning and cyberinfrastructure concepts
2016
- PGen: Large-scale genomic variations analysis workflow and browser in SoyKB
2016
- Bringing your tools to CyVerse Discovery Environment using Docker [version 1; referees: awaiting peer review]
2016
- High-contrast imaging in the cloud with klipReduce and findr
2016
- using Docker [version 3; referees: 3 approved]
2016
- Bringing your tools to CyVerse Discovery Environment using Docker [version 3; referees: 3 approved]
2016
- Jetstream: performance, early experiences, and early results
2016
- Scaling GIS analysis tasks from the desktop to the cloud utilizing contemporary distributed computing and data management approaches: A case study of project-based learning and …
2016
- Jetstream (NSF Award 1445604) Year Program Year 2 Annual Report (Dec 1, 2015–Nov 30, 2016)
2016
- Cloud Computing for Education and Research
2016
- Metabolic Risk Factor Prevalence in Children Participating in a Family‐Based Community Diabetes Prevention Program
2016
- The iPlant collaborative: cyberinfrastructure for enabling data to discovery for the life sciences
2016
- Genetic heritage of the balto-slavic speaking populations: A synthesis of autosomal, mitochondrial and Y-chromosomal data
2015
- The EPIC Kids Study: A randomized family-focused YMCA-based intervention to prevent type 2 diabetes in at-risk youth
2015
- Genome-wide signatures of male-mediated migration shaping the Indian gene pool
2015
- iClimate: a climate data and analysis portal
2015
- A genome-wide association study platform built on iPlant cyber-infrastructure
2015
- Usability of a smartphone food picture app for assisting 24-hour dietary recall: A pilot study
2015
- Scaling Critical Zone analysis tasks from desktop to the cloud utilizing contemporary distributed computing and data management approaches: A case study for project based …
2015
- Jetstream: a self-provisioned, scalable science and engineering cloud environment
2015
- Next generation resequencing of soybean germplasm for trait discovery on xsede using pegasus workflows and iplant infrastructure
2014
- Mitochondrial genome sequencing in mesolithic North East Europe unearths a new sub-clade within the broadly distributed human haplogroup C1
2014
- Geographic population structure analysis of worldwide human populations infers their biogeographical origins
2014
- A GWAS platform built on iPlant cyber-infrastructure
2014
- From cheek swabs to consensus sequences: An A to Z protocol for high-throughput DNA sequencing of complete human mitochondrial genomes
2014
- TECH SAVVY: Mobile technologies for promoting health and physical activity
2014
- Genetic diversity in Puerto Rico and its implications for the peopling of the Island and the West Indies
2014
- Development of a multimodal technology‐based coaching program for use in the GOG national diet and activity trial of ovarian cancer survivors
2013
- Using the iPlant collaborative discovery environment
2013
- Neolithic mitochondrial haplogroup H genomes and the genetic origins of Europeans
2013
- Matthew Vaughn
2013
- Using smartphones to maintain engagement of youth participation in 8‐week walking program
2013
- Uniparental Markers in Italy Reveal a Sex-Biased Genetic Structure and Different Historical Strata
2013
- Building an open Genome Wide Association Study (GWAS) platform
2013
- The GenoChip: A new tool for genetic anthropology
2013
- Your Data, Your Way
2012
- Food photo records for assessing daily food intake using a smart phone application in college students
2012
- Development and Evaluation of an Informal SMS-based Intervention to Promote Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors in Adolescents
2012
- A nutrition and physical activity intervention using smart phones in physical education classes at a junior high school
2012
- Stealth health: youth innovation, mobile technology, online social networking, and informal learning to promote physical activity
2012
- Bisque: Advances in Bioimage Databases.
2012
- iPlant atmosphere: a gateway to cloud infrastructure for the plant sciences
2011
- The iPlant collaborative: cyberinfrastructure for plant biology
2011
- Building an environment to facilitate discoveries for plant sciences
2011
- Dietary assessment tools using mobile technology
2011
- The iPlant collaborative
2011
- My-Plant. org: A phylogenetically structured social network
2010
- Leveraging Cloud Infrastructure for Life Sciences Research Laboratories: A Generalized View
2009
- Accelerate synthesis in ecology and environmental sciences
2009
- Machine-learning approaches for classifying haplogroup from Y chromosome STR data
2008
- Verification of single-peptide protein identifications by the application of complementary database search algorithms
2006
- The Wildcat Toolbox: A set of Perl utilities for data and database manipulation
2006
- The wildcat toolbox: A set of perl script utilities for use in peptide mass spectral database searching and proteomics experiments
2006
- Toward developing a provenance ontology for biological images
2005
- CHEMOTHERAPY, ANTIBIOTICS, AND GENE THERAPY-Epigenomic Changes during Leukemia Cell Differentiation: Analysis of Histone Acetylation and Cytosine Methylation Using CpG Island …
2004
- Epigenomic changes during leukemia cell differentiation: analysis of histone acetylation and cytosine methylation using CpG island microarrays
2004
- ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
2003
- User's Guide to the FAKtory Fragment Assembly System
2000
- The Use of Data Explorer as a 3-D Reconstruction Tool for Microscopy Data Sets
1997
- Implementing distributed controls for FMCs using Internet utilities
1996
- Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
1996
- Development of a generic networking utility for FMC control
1996
- Flybrain, an on-line atlas and database of the Drosophila nervous system.
1995