{"id":35734,"date":"2018-05-29T09:34:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T13:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=35734"},"modified":"2018-05-29T09:34:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T13:34:18","slug":"zhaowei-ren-joins-uc-libraries-as-a-software-developer-in-the-digital-scholarship-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2018\/05\/zhaowei-ren-joins-uc-libraries-as-a-software-developer-in-the-digital-scholarship-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Zhaowei Ren Joins UC Libraries as a Software Developer in the Digital Scholarship Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zhaowei Ren started work as a software developer in the <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.uc.edu\/\">Digital Scholarship Center<\/a> (DSC) on Tuesday, May 29. Zhaowei is the first hire funded by a <a href=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2017\/12\/ucs-digital-scholarship-center-awarded-a-900000-grant-from-the-andrew-w-mellon-foundation\/\">grant<\/a> from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of the Digital Scholarship Center\u2019s research on machine learning and data visualization in multiple disciplines in the humanities and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Zhaowei received his Master\u2019s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from UC\u2019s College of Engineering and Applied Science, where he focused on data mining, algorithm design and semantic modeling. He has worked at Cincinnati Children\u2019s Hospital Medical Center on several bioinformatics projects, and at Spatial.ai, a data science firm.<\/p>\n<p>He brings a terrific set of both theoretical and practical skills to the DSC that will help in implementing and scaling up their machine learning and data visualization platform for transdisciplinary research.<\/p>\n<p>Two additional hires funded by the Mellon grant will begin in the DSC in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zhaowei Ren started work as a software developer in the Digital Scholarship Center (DSC) on Tuesday, May 29. Zhaowei is the first hire funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of the Digital Scholarship Center\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2018\/05\/zhaowei-ren-joins-uc-libraries-as-a-software-developer-in-the-digital-scholarship-center\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,13],"tags":[458,372,37,514,1593,1594,36],"class_list":["post-35734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uc","category-uclibraries","tag-digital-humanities","tag-digital-scholarship","tag-library-news","tag-library-staff","tag-mellon","tag-mellon-grant","tag-uc-libraries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}