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UNC Charlotte Appoints Abbey Thomas to Co-Direct Sports Analytics Program

Aug 12, 2025 - Associate Professor Abbey Thomas, is a certified athletic trainer with a passion for studying knee injuries, a background in biomechanics, and a devotion to creating new opportunities for Charlotte’s students.

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UNC Charlotte Appoints Abbey Thomas to Co-Direct Sports Analytics Program

University of Illinois Chicago | Lu Cheng receives NSF CAREER grant to improve AI accuracy, reliability

Aug 14, 2025 -

#University of Illinois Chicago #computer science #AI #NSF

University of Illinois Chicago | Lu Cheng receives NSF CAREER grant to improve AI accuracy, reliability

Oxford | Martingale Foundation expands flagship postgraduate scholarship programme with major statistics opportunities

Aug 14, 2025 - The scholarships provide fully funded support to postgraduate students from low socio-economic backgrounds, enabling them to pursue research at top UK universities.

#statistics #math #University of Oxford #Martingale Foundation #funding #DEI

Oxford | Martingale Foundation expands flagship postgraduate scholarship programme with major statistics opportunities

CMU | The AI Tool That Could Make Manufacturing Faster and More Efficient — by Using Lego Bricks

Aug 13, 2025 - A new AI-powered tool created by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science could change the way we manufacture and build things.

#CMU #AI

CMU | The AI Tool That Could Make Manufacturing Faster and More Efficient — by Using Lego Bricks

UPenn-developed AI tools and datasets help tailor treatments for kidney patients

Aug 15, 2025 - Penn Medicine and Wharton researchers have partnered to create CellSpectra and SISKA, offering clues to better treatments for kidney disease and beyond.

#UPenn #AI #biomedical

UPenn-developed AI tools and datasets help tailor treatments for kidney patients

New Pitt research suggests cellphone data could help clinicians identify and treat mental health disorders

Aug 14, 2025 - Colin E. Vize says passive sensing could give clinicians access to more (and more reliable) data about their patients’ lives.

#University of Pittsburgh #data science #health #data

New Pitt research suggests cellphone data could help clinicians identify and treat mental health disorders

Computer Modeling Using SDSC Software Illustrates Plastic-Degrading Fungus

Aug 18, 2025 - Koji mold, has been used to produce foods like soy sauce and miso for thousands of years, but it may also be key to solving a modern problem: plastic pollution.

#ADSA member #UC San Diego #environment

Computer Modeling Using SDSC Software Illustrates Plastic-Degrading Fungus

UCSD | Visualizing Code: Web-Based Tools Illuminate Data Science Topics for Beginners

Aug 14, 2025 - Researchers with the University of California San Diego and the Fred Hutch Cancer Center have been working on web-based tools that help individuals visualize how specific coding libraries and data science concepts work in real time.

#UC San Diego #ADSA member #data science

UCSD | Visualizing Code: Web-Based Tools Illuminate Data Science Topics for Beginners

UBC Master of Data Science | Office of the Provincial Health Officer, BC

Aug 15, 2025 - Working with a group of UBC Master of Data Science (MDS) Vancouver students, the Office of the BC Provincial Health Officer aims to examine the impacts of extreme temperatures on death risk and forecast the estimated excess deaths in BC communities.

#University of British Columbia #ADSA member

UBC Master of Data Science | Office of the Provincial Health Officer, BC

UW eScience | Staff Spotlight: Niki Burggraf

Aug 15, 2024 - This week’s featured staff member is SSEC Senior Research Software Engineer Niki Burggraf.

#University of Washington #ADSA member #RSE

UW eScience | Staff Spotlight: Niki Burggraf

UC Berkeley BIDS | Branching out in Open Source: My Summer Experience

Aug 18, 2025 - Kyle Cheng had the unique opportunity to intern at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS). It was an eye-opening experience that taught me much about open source software.

#UC Berkeley #ADSA member #open source #RSE

UC Berkeley BIDS | Branching out in Open Source: My Summer Experience

Guiding Berkeley’s largest academic department into new territory

Aug 12, 2025 - During her chair term, which ended in June, Tomlin helped dramatically expand the EECS faculty, established the department position under two colleges – a first for the university – and undertook an initiative to honor the department's history.

#UC Berkeley

Guiding Berkeley’s largest academic department into new territory

OSU TDAI Catalyst Grant Fuels Breakthrough in Explainable Machine Learning for Agricultural Water Management

Aug 12, 2025 - A new study published in Agricultural Water Management demonstrates how explainable machine learning can improve the accuracy and interpretability of latent energy flux estimation.

#Ohio State University #asa me #machine learning #dssg #environment

OSU TDAI Catalyst Grant Fuels Breakthrough in Explainable Machine Learning for Agricultural Water Management

8 UC San Diego Breakthroughs Powering a Safer, Stronger Nation

Aug 12, 2025 - A patient survives a high-risk surgery. A wildfire is stopped before it reaches a neighborhood. A fighter pilot safely returns home. Discover the UC San Diego breakthroughs making these moments possible.

#UC San Diego #ADSA member

8 UC San Diego Breakthroughs Powering a Safer, Stronger Nation

UNC-CH SSDS | The summer I turned data scientist

Aug 15, 2025 - For many students, summer internships are an opportunity to connect what they have learned in the classroom into the workplace.

#internship #UNC Chapel Hill #ADSA member

UNC-CH SSDS | The summer I turned data scientist

UVA SDS | MSDS researchers aim for improved X-ray diagnostics via neural networks

Aug 8, 2025 - With lecturer Sodiq Adewole, MSDS student researchers Timothy Rodriguez, Alanna Hazlett, and Naomi Ohashi published a paper on X-ray disease detection.

#university of virginia #ADSA member #dssg

UVA SDS | MSDS researchers aim for improved X-ray diagnostics via neural networks

UToronto | Data Sciences Institute Celebrates SUDS Cohort of 2025 with Showcase

Aug 15, 2024 - The Data Sciences Institute’s (DSI) Summer Undergraduate Data Science (SUDS) Opportunities Program celebrated the achievements of its 2025 cohort with the annual SUDS Showcase.

#University of Toronto #ADSA member #undergrad

UToronto | Data Sciences Institute Celebrates SUDS Cohort of 2025 with Showcase

UChicago | MS in Applied Data Science Students Put Data Science Skills to Work Over the Summer

Aug 14, 2025 - Students in the University of Chicago’s Master’s in Applied Data Science (MS-ADS) program spent this summer applying classroom knowledge to real-world impact.

#UChicago #ADSA member #graduate #internship

UChicago | MS in Applied Data Science Students Put Data Science Skills to Work Over the Summer

$500K NSF funding for research on human-centered visual question answering

Aug 14, 2024 - Prof. Anhong Guo and colleagues at CU Boulder aim to make AI assistants more transparent and informative for blind and low-vision users.

#NSF #University of Michigan-Ann Arbor #dssg #University of Colorado Boulder

$500K NSF funding for research on human-centered visual question answering

Penn State University | Q&A: Boosting research with supercomputing

Aug 18, 2025 - Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences co-hires Ed O'Brien and Romit Maulik use Penn State's Roar supercomputer to super charge their research across different scientific domains.

#Penn State #ADSA member #machine learning #computing

Penn State University | Q&A: Boosting research with supercomputing

Insights from the 2nd Annual Vine to Mind Symposium

Aug 13, 2025 - This series uses the wine industry as a lens to examine how data and AI operate in environments shaped by cultural, environmental, and regulatory complexity.

#Harvard #ADSA member

Insights from the 2nd Annual Vine to Mind Symposium

Brown leads the charge in tech & AI policy education with new summer program

Aug 18, 2025 - The Center for Technological Responsibility, Re-imagination, and Redesign (CNTR)’s Tech & Policy Summer School brings together a new generation of technology policymakers to bridge the gap between technical experts and lawmakers.

#Brown #AI #ADSA member #policy

Brown leads the charge in tech & AI policy education with new summer program

Beyond AlphaFold: how AI is decoding the grammar of the genome

Aug 18, 2025 - Scientists are seeking to decipher the role of non-coding DNA in the human genome, helped by a suite of artificial-intelligence tools.

#bioinformatics #ChatGPT

Beyond AlphaFold: how AI is decoding the grammar of the genome

AI is already displacing these jobs

Aug 18, 2025 - Any disruption from AI is so far hitting farther afield, the MIT findings suggest.

#AI #employment #MIT

AI is already displacing these jobs

Applications Now Open for $60,000 NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Awards

Aug 13, 2025 - The application deadline for the 2026-2027 academic year is Monday, Sept. 15, 2025.

#Nvidia #graduate #funding

Applications Now Open for $60,000 NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Awards

Pomona College | A Unified Framework for Random Forest Prediction Error Estimation

Aug 12, 2025 - Jo Hardin, professor of math and statistics and Hardison Chair of analytical thinking, explores how Random Forest prediction model works.

#Pomona College #data science #machine learning #statistics #math

Pomona College | A Unified Framework for Random Forest Prediction Error Estimation

AI Research and Real-World Impact Take Shape at UMW's Center for AI and the Liberal Arts

Aug 11, 2025 - UMW’s Center for AI and the Liberal Arts will serve as a hub for research, teaching and public engagement.

#AI #University of Mary Washington

AI Research and Real-World Impact Take Shape at UMW's Center for AI and the Liberal Arts

AI content is tainting preprints: how moderators are fighting back

Aug 12, 2025 - Preprint servers are seeing a rise in submissions seemingly produced by paper mills or with help from AI tools.

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AI content is tainting preprints: how moderators are fighting back

Schmidt Sciences joins global research effort to safeguard AI

Jul 30, 2025 - UK AISI, Canada AISI, Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, and others collaborate to offer grants, computational power and venture capital to build trust in AI

#AI #aws #Schmidt #funding #United Kingdom (UK)

Schmidt Sciences joins global research effort to safeguard AI

UPittsburgh | A Responsible Data Science project will explore extreme human altruism

Aug 7, 2025 - The Pitt initiative will collaborate with the Carnegie Hero Fund to make its 121 years of data on heroes available to researchers.

#University of Pittsburgh #ADSA member #dssg

UPittsburgh | A Responsible Data Science project will explore extreme human altruism