Center for Future Information Technology CFIT

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Center for Future Information Technology
(CFIT)
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Center for Future Information Technology (CFIT)
VISION

• On our tenets of open collaboration and
  interdisciplinary participation, our vision for
  the center is to
• innovate the future of information technology
  through vital research that has impact on the
  broad applications of information technology
  through university and industrial partnerships,
• set an imaginative direction, yet influence a
  pragmatic roadmap that has intellectual,
  societal, environmental, and commercial value.

For further information http//cfit.ucdavis
.edu
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Why CFIT? Missions

• Building a community for research, education, and
  training through partnership between Industry and
  University
• Building a Techno-social Marketplace for all
  academic disciplines and industrial partners
• Target innovative and future IT issues
• Focus on application-driven research, education,
  and training
• Facilitate collaborations in multiple dimensions
• Multi-disciplinary
• University-Industry
• Multi-disciplines with Multiple industry partners

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University Constituents

• College of Engineering
• Computer Science
• Electrical and Computer Engineering
• School of Medicine
• Center for Health and Technology
• Graduate School of Management
• Energy Efficiency Center

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Industrial Partnerships

• Intel Corporation
• Hewlett Packard
• Nokia
• Cisco
• Qualcomm
• PC-Doctor
• Siemens
• Sprint
• Gigamon Systems
• Huawei Technologies

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Advancing Information Technology
Center for research
Consortia for industry
CFIT Collaborative Research
Wireless Mobile Networks
Systems Technology Research
Technology Management
Entrepreneurship
Distributed Computing
Security
Strategy
Information Technology Society
Information Interfaces
Innovation
Data Management Analysis
Enterprise
Environment
Digital Health
Energy Efficiency
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CFIT Scope
Health
Enterprise
Environment
Energy
Technology Management (Strategy, Innovation,
Entrepreneurship)
Education Career Development
Information Interfaces
Security
Data Management and Analysis
Mobile and Wireless Networks
Distributed computing
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BenefitsCommunity for Research, Education and
Training
Enterprise Systems
Education and Training
Graduate School of Management
Health
College of Engineering
Energy
Letters and Science
Digital Home
Industrial issues applications
Environment
School of Medicine
Recruitment career development
Applied interdisciplinary research and education
Industrial innovation and career development
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Benefits to the University

• Interactions with real-world practitioners and
  identification of problems that can impact
  society in general
• Multidisciplinary research approach to solve
  application-driven problems
• Exposure to a broad range of industrial partners
• Large-scale funding opportunities from NSF, DoE,
  DoD through industry-university collaboration
  (GENI, ERC, DARPA)
• Internship for students and faculty visits to
  industry
• Developing course contents in view of the
  changing needs
• Increased student career opportunities and future
  information technology leaders

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Benefits to Industry

• Access to multidisciplinary expertise
• Pool of relevant and multidisciplinary
  researchers
• Early access to all papers, technical reports,
  research findings
• Participation in projects of industry relevance
• Frequent interactions with faculty and graduate
  students
• Impact on education and training of future
  recruits
• Influence research and education on new topics
• Matching support from NSF, UC Micro, and UC
  Discovery
• Get almost twice the amount of benefits from your
  support
• Leverage summer internships and faculty visits
• Bridge the growing gap of university research and
  industrial development needs
• Create linkages between university, industry, and
  government sponsored initiatives
• Interact with CFIT industry partners

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Center Model
CFIT Steering Committee (Research Cluster
Principals Sponsors)
Industry application topics
Research projects
Research Clusters
Research Lab 1
Workgroup 1
Research Cluster 1
Industry influence
Research collaboration
Research Lab 2
Workgroup 2
Research Cluster 2




Workgroup n
Research Lab n
Research Cluster n
Vision alignment application engagement
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CFIT Organization

• Steering Committee
• The CFIT Steering Committee includes faculty,
  research cluster and working group leads, CFIT
  industrial members. The committee is responsible
  for setting the overall direction, assessing and
  sustaining the university and industrial value of
  the center and its members.
• Research Clusters
• CFIT Research Clusters are led by faculty
  members in close collaboration with
  industrial partners, aligning the university
  long-term research agenda and experimental
  research with the working group requirements for
  information technology innovation and societal
  value.
• Working Groups
• CFIT Working Groups are jointly chaired by
  industry and faculty. In a consortia approach,
  working groups enable industry participants to
  influence research and to provide valuable input
  into the direction of key CFIT research and
  education programs. Working groups are launched
  as relevant issues emerge and disbanded as
  warranted.

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Research Cluster Mobile and Wireless
Networks

• Ubiquitous networking for public safety and
  healthcare management
• Information access anytime, anywhere, in any
  format
• Management and interoperability of heterogeneous
  networks

Research Thrusts
Workgroup Agenda

• Wireless and mobile networking protocols
• Managing heterogeneous networks
• Seamless configuration, portability and
  interoperability
• Experimental test beds

• Anytime-anywhere access
• Scalable Network Management
• Spectrum related issues
• Application-aware protocols
• ?
• ?

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Research Cluster Security

• Cyber infrastructure for a resilient and open
  Internet society
• Large-scale attack defense systems
• Cyber security for current and future Internets

Workgroup Agenda
Research Thrusts

• Decentralized trust and security
• Intrusion detection, analysis response
  zero-day vulnerability analysis
• Secure, robust networks
• Information flow accountability

• Cyber security
• Virtualization and security
• Securing federated enterprises
• Information accountability
• ?
• ?

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Research Cluster Information Interfaces

• Interfaces for very large-scale information
  management 
• Interfaces that enhance learning and productivity
• Universal interfaces for next generation consumer
  information technology

Research Thrusts
Workgroup Agenda

• e-Learning
• e-Business
• e-Healthcare
• Visual interfaces for mobile
• devices
• ?

• Information visualization
• Collaborative interfaces
• Intelligent interfaces
• Universal usability

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Research Cluster Distributed Computing

• Multi-core for networking
• Distributed virtual machines
• Parallel programming for virtualized multi-core
  systems
• Scalable and efficient data centers

Research Thrusts
Workgroup Agenda

• Virtualized resource management
• Multi-core applications
• Education Programming for multi-core and
  virtualized systems
• ?

• Multi-core
• Virtualization
• Parallel Programming
• Density and scaling of data centers
• Power and thermal issues

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Research ClusterData Management and Analysis

• Management of heterogeneous and distributed data 
• Data integration and uniform data access
• Integration of data processing pipelines into
  data management

Research Thrusts
Workgroup Agenda

• Scientific data management
• Spatio-temporal and streaming data
• Data and information system security
• Geospatial data management

• Data mining
• Secure data analysis
• ?

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Membership Issues

• The support for research funding will go to the
  principal investigators for expenses related to
  the specified projects
• For the current academic year, all our existing
  collaborators are members of CFIT
• Subsequently, we will need to generate financial
  support to cover basic administrative costs,
  workshop expenses, speaker visits, etc.
• Possible sources
• Industry Gifts (for specific activities)
• Membership Fees
• NSF I/UCRC

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NSF I/UCRC Program

• Primary Requirements
• Strong interaction between industry and
  university
• Interdisciplinary research focus
• Memberships
• Full members and associate members
• Minimum of 10 industrial memberships
• NSF Support
• Planning grant
• Sharing of administrative expenses for 10 years
• Supplement for fundamental research

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Looking Beyond

• UC Discovery
• NSF Engineering Research Center
• DARPA Programs

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CFIT Events

• Lets stay engaged!
• Workshops once every six months
• CFIT Seminar series
• Mutual visits for talks, discussions, demos, etc.
• Student internships and faculty/researcher
  exchanges
• Joint proposals to federal agencies
• CFIT Industrial Recruitment day
• Frequent sharing of information, technical
  expertise, and knowledge

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Acknowledgments

• John Vicente
• Hong Li, Krishna Kant, Dilip Krishnaswamy, Sanjay
  Rungta
• Scott Howard
• All participants Intel, HP, Nokia, Sprint,
  Qualcomm, Cisco, PC-Doctor, Huawei, Gigamon, and
  Siemens