New Grants for Profs. Watson and Venugopal
Posted on 2017-02-23
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Prof. Thomas Watson and Prof. Deepak Venugopal have been awarded new research grants.
Prof. Watson (right) is the PI on a new $175K grant from the National Science Foundation. The project, entitled "CRII: AF: Developing and Applying Connections Between Communication Complexity and Query Complexity," starts on July 1 , 2017 and ends June 30, 2019.
Prof. Venugopal (below center) was awarded a Smart Cities Research Grant from the FedEx Institute of Technology and the City of Memphis. The project is entitled "Predicting Localized, Fine-Grained Crime Types using Twitter."
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