May 7, 2021
New Cornell-led research finds “little to no evidence” of a link between a person’s normal blood levels of vitamin D and risk of getting COVID-19, or the severity of an infection, in the most comprehensive study of its kind to date.
Multiple studies had suggested an association between vitamin D and COVID-19 risk, raising hopes that vitamin D supplements might help to prevent or minimize infections – speculation that has received widespread media attention and boosted consumer interest.
The new study, however, which analyzed a publicly available genomic data bank and 38 different COVID-19 studies worldwide – a total sample including nearly 1.4 million people – does not support those claims.
Cornell University announced April 15 that 12 of their faculty members, including Indian American assistant professors Rachit Agarwal and Eshan Chattopadhyay, were honored with the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development, or CAREER, award.
Over the next five years, each will receive approximately $400,000 to $500,000 from the program, which supports early-career faculty âwho have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization,â according to the NSF website.
Agarwal and Chattopadhyay are both assistant professors of computer science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science.
April 15, 2021
Researchers studying a range of topics including new feature detection tools for signal processing, computational de-randomization and machine learning applications for health care and infrastructure are among the 12 Cornell faculty members who have recently received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards.
Over the next five years, each will receive approximately $400,000 to $500,000 from the program, which supports early-career faculty “who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization,” according to the NSF website.
The recipients are:
Rachit Agarwal, Eshan Chattopadhyay, Chris De Sa and Owolabi Legunsen, assistant professors of computer science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science;
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Researchers studying a range of topics including new feature detection tools for signal processing, computational de-randomization and machine learning applications for health care and infrastructure are among the 11 Cornell faculty members who have recently received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards.
Over the next five years, each will receive approximately $400,000 to $500,000 from the program, which supports early-career faculty “who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization,” according to the NSF website.
The recipients are:
Rachit Agarwal, Eshan Chattopadhyay, Chris De Sa and Owolabi Legunsen, assistant professors of computer science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science;
April 16, 2021
As more enterprises continue to expand their online operations due to the pandemic, the need for high-quality and budget-friendly cloud-optimization solutions are on the rise renting servers in the cloud from cloud providers can easily consume 50% of a company’s revenue. Exotanium, a software startup founded by faculty and researchers in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science and based on technology licensed through Cornell’s Center for Technology Licensing, helps companies reduce wasteful spending and leverage available cloud resources more efficiently.
Earlier this week, Exotanium announced completing a $5 million seed funding round led by Walden International and Nepenthe Capital LLC. This latest round of funding builds on an exceptional year for Exotanium, which also completed a successful pilot with software company, Autodesk, Inc.