Brown | Brenda Rubenstein Named New DSI Director
Dec. 11, 2024 - Associate Professor of Chemistry and Physics has been named the Director of the Data Sciences Institute (DSI), effective July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028.
ADSA Member News
UChicago | NSF awards $20 million to DSI to build AI models that predict scientific discoveries and technological advancements
Aug. 9, 2024 - The NSF awarded a DSI research team a $20 million grant to create first-of-their-kind large language models intended to help predict scientific discoveries and tech advancements.
USF MSDS Cohort 12 Series: Bassim Eledath and Rishi Mohan
Jul. 17, 2024 - Two more students from USF's most recent cohort, Bassim and Rishi, talk about their experiences in the MSDS program.
UVA SDS | What's in a Data Science Degree? (podcast)
Jul. 12, 2024 - Prince Afriyie and Brian Wright talk about the process of designing undergraduate data science curriculum at the University of Virginia
UNC Chapel Hill's School of Data Science and Society announces second cohort of faculty
After hiring 15 new faculty members in its first year, the School of Data Science and Society (SDSS) at UNC Chapel Hill has hired an additional 16 faculty members.
UM-Ann Arbor | Institutional Efforts to Help Academic Researchers Implement Generative AI in Research
May 31, 2024 - Academic institutions and their research organizations must develop new mechanisms to help researchers adopt new technologies, especially those that cause major seismic shifts such as generative AI.
UTSA | Enabling Widespread Engagement in DS and AI: The Generation AI Curriculum Initiative for Community Colleges
Mar. 15, 2024 - Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education.
Michigan Commits $10M to Train Semiconductor Workforce
Jun. 5, 2024 - Both the University of Michigan and Washtenaw Community College will be involved in training and retraining workers at the MSTAR center for semiconductor chip manufacturing.
UVA SDS | Story of Us
To Build A School Without Walls. It began as an idea then evolved into an institute before ultimately transforming into the first data science school in the country. In this exhibition you’ll learn how this improbable story unfolded and hear from the people who turned a vision into reality.
Notre Dame | Insight Into the MS Data Science Admissions Process
Mar. 3, 2023 - Tips for writing a solid statement of intent and other insights into the data science admissions process here at Notre Dame.
NJIT | New PhD Program in Data Science
Feb. 17, 2023 - NJIT’s Departments of Data Science and Mathematical Sciences have launched a new Ph.D. in Data Science program, dedicated to growing the field and generating top-notch data scientists.
Campus plans new data science center near Main Quad | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2018)
Aug. 30, 2018 - The data science center will be created by razing and replacing the university’s Illini Hall, which currently consists of primarily classrooms, computer labs, and faculty offices.
School of Data Science to launch Ph.D. program, formally joins College of Computing and Informatics – Inside UNC Charlotte
Jun. 5, 2024 - UNC Charlotte’s School of Data Science will soon expand its academic offerings with the establishment of a Doctor of Philosophy in Data Science.
Tell your story: Metrics of success for academic data science collaboration and consulting programs
Several specific metrics to report to targeted audiences to tell the story for success of a robust and sustainable program.
Georgia TILE Program Trains Future Tech Entrepreneurs
Jun. 4, 2024 - The Technology and Innovation Learning Experience (TILE) program will give $3,000 plus mentorship and training to 13 students from five startups from Georgia Tech, Georgia State University, Morehouse and Spelman Colleges.
UMichigan-Ann Arbor | H.V. Jagadish receives Stephen S. Attwood Award
The highest faculty honor awarded by the College of Engineering, the award recognizes Jagadish’s outstanding record of achievement in research, teaching, and service.
Which colleges gained R1 status under the revamped Carnegie Classifications?
Howard University, a historically Black college, gained the coveted designation, as did about three dozen other institutions.
Academic Partnerships – MIDAS
MIDAS is a founding member of the Midwest Big Data Hub and leads a number of its programs. MIDAS works closely with the Academic Data Science Alliance to promote collaboration and data science ethics. MIDAS also works closely with peer data science institutes at academic institutions.
ICSI is a Founding Member of Academic Data Science Alliance | ICSI
The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) is a founding member of the Academic Data Science Alliance (ADSA), a community network for data science leaders, practitioners, and educators who take responsibility for a just, equitable future where data science approaches are thoughtfully applied in all domains for the benefit of all.
UCSD | High School Intern at SDSC Presents Research Outcomes at National Data Science Meeting
Upon completing an internship at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), Rajan Tavathia presented a poster for the recent Academic Data Science Alliance (ADSA) Annual Meeting.
Raymond Ng’s Transformative Leadership Where Passion Meets Progress
Raymond Ng is the Director of the UBC Data Science Institute, is at the forefront of this holding the baton of academic excellence and real-world impact.
2023 ADSA Annual Meeting Encompasses Special Session Hosted by UW's eScience Institute
Last month, the University of Washington’s eScience Institute and the West Hub co-hosted a special session at the 2023 Academic Data Science Alliance (ADSA) Annual Meeting.
Racing Against Time: Why Scientists May Use AI ‘Research Assembly Lines’
Discover how Artificial Intelligence is revolutionizing the way we approach discovery and innovation.
UTSA welcomes White House Chief Data Scientist Dominique Duval-Diop
An upcoming conference being hosted by UTSA is highlighting an impressive list of keynote speakers. Among them is Dominique Duval-Diop, the chief data scientist of the United States in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Academic Data Science Alliance | UTSA School of Data Science
ADSA will be hosting its first-ever in-person Annual Meeting at San Pedro I in October 2023.
BU | CDS Hosts 2023 ADSA Data Science Leadership Summit
The Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) at Boston University (BU) was proud to host the Academic Data Science Alliance (ADSA) 2023 Data Science Leadership Summit.
Tool helps experts, students assess ethics of data science work in society
Data science has unlocked new potential to help understand and address challenges like human health and climate change. But it can be challenging to know how to work ethically with data, especially when it has major impacts on society.
Academic Data Science Alliance Picks Up Steam
Universities looking for resources to build their data science curriculums and degree programs have a new resource at their disposal.
West Big Data Innovation Hub: Key Impacts of a Decade-Long Project
Organized Learning and Doing Data for Good events to showcase student work and enable dialogue and networking among students and professionals. The 2023 event took place at the Academic Data Science Alliance Annual Meeting, where students engaged with leaders in data science and shared their own work focused on broad social impact.
UWashington | Doing Better at Teaching Data for Good: The Data for Good in Education Workshop Series
An interdisciplinary group of data science educators from multiple institutions put together the Data for Good in Education Workshop Series, a collection of intensive day-long workshops that convene data science educators to surface and promote strategies to face the obstacle of grounding data science education in people-centered community-informed practice.