Computer Science PhD Student Wins Prestigious Award in Data Science and Geoinformatics

Computer science doctoral student Amruta Kale was awarded the FUNding Friday Award at the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) 2022 Summer Meeting at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Amruta is currently in her second year as a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Idaho. Working with Professor Xiaogang (Marshall) Ma, Amruta’s work is in the field of artificial intelligence and data science.

For the FUNding Friday competition, she proposed to build and implement use cases of Common Workflow Language, an open-source standard. She targeted on four ideas: collaborate, use case, open science, and test/improve usability of Geoweaver and geoweaver_cwl package, derived from research projects that she and Ma are currently working on at U of I.