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UCSD HDSI Postdoc Neha Sangwan Receives Award for Making Digital Networks Safer
UCSD HDSI Postdoc Neha Sangwan Receives Award for Making Digital Networks Safer
Jul 22, 2025 - Neha Sangwan, a postdoctoral scholar at UC San Diego’s Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI), has been selected as the recipient of the prestigious 2025 IEEE Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award.
UCSD HDSI Postdoc Neha Sangwan Receives Award for Making Digital Networks Safer
UBC Master of Data Science | BC Ministry of Environment and Parks
UBC Master of Data Science | BC Ministry of Environment and Parks
Jul 25, 2025 - The site remediation program with BC Ministry of Environment and Parks has worked with a group of UBC Master of Data Science Computational Linguistics students to research, implement and compare the best data science approach to add meta data tags to thousands of site remediation documents.
UBC Master of Data Science | BC Ministry of Environment and Parks
UW Professor Magdalena Balazinska elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences
UW Professor Magdalena Balazinska elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences
Jul 23, 2025 - Magdalena Balazinska has been elected a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences in recognition of her “contributions in data management for data science, big data systems, cloud computing, and image/video analytics and leadership in data science education.”
UW Professor Magdalena Balazinska elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences
UW eScience Institute | Staff Spotlight: Anissa Tanweer
UW eScience Institute | Staff Spotlight: Anissa Tanweer
Jul 23, 2025 - Something that was important to her when she took on the role of directing the Data Science for Social Good program was that “we are not just presuming that we are doing social good because we say we are, but that this is really about figuring out can we and how do we try to have some sort of good impact on society while doing data science.”
UW eScience Institute | Staff Spotlight: Anissa Tanweer
UVA SDS | Stephen Turner on returning to academia
UVA SDS | Stephen Turner on returning to academia
Jul 21, 2025 - Returning to UVA, Stephen Turner is blending data science, biology, and ethics to drive interdisciplinary research and education at the School of Data Science.
UVA SDS | Stephen Turner on returning to academia
Salary negotiation bias from chatbots
Salary negotiation bias from chatbots
Jul 24, 2025 - Researchers Sorokovikova and Chizhov et al. found that salary suggestions for females were lower than for males.
Salary negotiation bias from chatbots
Reactions Are Mixed as Trump Unveils AI Action Plan
Reactions Are Mixed as Trump Unveils AI Action Plan
Jul 23, 2025 - The new federal AI Action Plan aims to secure U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence. Its policies address a range of issues, including worker displacement. Experts have concerns about its impact on state policy.
Reactions Are Mixed as Trump Unveils AI Action Plan
A new way to edit or generate images
A new way to edit or generate images
Jul 21, 2025 - MIT and Meta researchers discover that special kinds of neural networks called encoders or “tokenizers” can do much more than previously realized, leading to a new way to edit or generate images.
A new way to edit or generate images