Five projects have been selected to receive development funding through the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) Accelerator Big Data Challenge Grant, the organization announced recently.

Kevin Eliceiri of Medical Physics; Jomol Matthew, Mike Collins and Thomas Callaci of Population Health Sciences, Pedro Morgado of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Aussie Suzuki of Oncology and Sijia Yang of Journalism & Mass Communications are the applicants that will receive the $100,000 in grant funding.

“Turning big data into actionable information is critical to helping organizations identify new opportunities and make informed decisions,” WARF CEO Erik Iverson said in a statement. “We’re delighted to support UW-Madison innovators rising to the challenge of managing large amounts of data.”

The five winners were selected from a pool of 24 research teams.