ACM Meeting at NJIT Highlights Tech Education for Disabled Students
Jul 22, 2025 - New Jersey Institute of Technology this summer hosted the 10th edition of the RESPECT conference.
Academic Data Science
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.
U-M Ann Arbor | Two CSE students awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Jul 23, 2025 - The fellowship recognizes graduate students in STEM fields for their outstanding research achievements.
TAMIDS Announces 2025-2026 Cohort of Student Ambassadors
Jul 25, 2025 - Sixteen PhD students were selected for this competitive scholarship.
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.
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.”
UMN DSI | AI Explorers Summer Camp Wraps Up Two Weeks of Innovation, Fun, and Surprise Visitors
Jul 25, 2025 - Hosted by the Data Science and AI Hub at the University of Minnesota, this immersive experience brought high school students to campus to dive into the world of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science.
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.”
UC Berkeley BIDS | Digital Dunhuang Caves: Preserving a World Heritage Site Through Data and Technology
Jul 23, 2025- In April, BIDS welcomed Dr. Tianxiu Yu and Dr. Yanpeng Song for a special seminar exploring how large-scale digitization is preserving one of the world’s most significant cultural sites.
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.
Ph.D. Student Profile: Medhasweta Sen — School of Data Science
Jul 25, 2025 - Medhasweta Sen brings global perspective and AI research passion to UVA’s Ph.D. in Data Science program, focusing on LLMs, ethics, and real-world impact.
UPenn | AI Vision, Reinvented: The Power of Synthetic Data
Jul 21, 2025 - Researchers at Penn Engineering and the Allen Institute for AI have developed a new approach to train open-source models.
Penn State University Libraries to host August speakers on AI, the Data Rescue Project
Jul 23, 2025 - Penn State University Libraries will sponsor two speakers on open scholarship topics in conjunction with the second Penn State Open Scholarship Boot Camp, set for Aug. 13-15 on the University Park campus.
U-M Ann Arbor | Improving AI models: Automated tool detects silent errors in deep learning training
Jul 24, 2025 - TrainCheck uses training invariants to find the root cause of hard-to-detect errors before they cause downstream problems, saving time and resources.
DeepMind and OpenAI models solve maths problems at level of top students
Jul 24, 2025 - For the first time, large language models performed on a par with gold medallists in the International Mathematical Olympiad.
Georgia Tech building supercomputer it hopes will speed up the future
Jul 23, 2025 - The $20M supercomputer, NEXUS, is expected to be completed in spring 2026.
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.
ASA K-12 Statistics and Data Science Education Outreach Director
Jul 24, 2025 - Kaycie Maddox is the ASA K–12 Statistics and Data Science Education Outreach Director.
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.
Stanford Report highlights AI’s potential to support learners with disabilities
Jul 21, 2025 - Drawing on a collaborative event including students, educators, and policymakers, Stanford’s Accelerator for Learning has released a white paper calling for AI systems designed around the needs of individuals with learning differences.
Harvard HDSI | Meet the 2025 SPUDS Fellows
Jul 17, 2025 - SPUDS provides undergraduates with substantive research experience, mentorship from leading Harvard faculty, and the opportunity to join an interdisciplinary community.
Low-quality papers based on public health data are flooding the scientific literature
Jul 15, 2025 - The appearance of thousands of formulaic biomedical studies has been linked to the rise of text-generating AI tools.
Mapping the Academic Open Source Ecosystem: Insights from a Community Survey
Jul 15, 2025 - SustainOSS Academic Ecosystem Map
How Universities Can Ensure Equitable Access to Data
Jul 16, 2025 - Inequitable access to data continues to hinder the growth and collaboration of many academic institutions.
Coding is dead: UW computer science program rethinks curriculum for the AI era
Jul 10, 2025 - The University of Washington's Allen School is rethinking how to train the next generation of software engineers in an AI-dominated job market.
UToronto | AI used to ‘democratize’ how we predict the weather
Jul 14, 2025 - An AI weather prediction model developed by James Requeima and other researchers is 10x faster and consumes 1,000x less computing power.
The rocket scientist behind Duke's AI push: A conversation with Provost Alec Gallimore
Jul 15, 2025 - The Chronicle spoke with Gallimore about his role as provost, Duke’s academic priorities and its shift toward AI.
A language model built for the public good
Jul 9, 2025 - ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure.
Virginia Tech’s Academy of Data Science begins a new era
Jul 1, 2025 - New leadership takes over the academy and managing a new master’s degree in data science.
Emory | Where Tradition Meets High-Tech Scholarship
Jul 8, 2025 - Digital humanities at Emory foster a deeper understanding of the world we live in.