Big Data, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Biography

Dr. Joshua New is a computer scientist joining Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in 2009. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Tennessee in 2009, his M.S. in Computer Systems and Software Design and his B.S. with a double major in Computer Science and Mathematics with a Physics minor from Jacksonville State University. Dr. New is a member of the Building Envelope & Urban Systems Research group and ORNL’s Urban Dynamics Institute. Dr. New currently serves at ORNL’s Building Technology Research Integration Center (BTRIC) as subprogram manager for software tools and models. He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications and has led more than 45 competitively-awarded projects in the past 5 years involving websites, web services, databases, simulation development, visual analytics, supercomputing using the world’s #1 fastest supercomputer and artificial intelligence for big data mining. He is an active member of IEEE and ASHRAE.

Research Interest

Human/Computer Interaction (HCI), Artificial Intelligence (AI), scientific visualization, automation, optimization, General Purpose computation on Graphical Processing Units (GPGPU), High Performance Computing (HPC), energy efficient buildings, computer vision, data fusion, robotics, computer graphics, virtual reality, drones, Brain Machine Interfaces (BMI), 3D printing, and quantum computing.