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Ritambhara Singh awarded NSF CAREER grant for her research on “Integrating Heterogenous Health Data for Improved Predictive and Explainable Methods.”

Jul 9, 2025 - Ritambhara Singh, an Assistant Professor of Data Science and Computer Science and CCMB Faculty Member, was recently awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Grant.

#Brown #NSF #ADSA member #data science

Ritambhara Singh awarded NSF CAREER grant for her research on “Integrating Heterogenous Health Data for Improved Predictive and Explainable Methods.”

Rajesh Gupta Appointed Dean of School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences

Jul 10, 2025 - Rajesh K. Gupta, a distinguished computer scientist and seasoned academic leader, has been named founding dean of the School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences (SCIDS).

#UC San Diego #ADSA member

Rajesh Gupta Appointed Dean of School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences

Announcing GenAI Processors: Build powerful and flexible Gemini applications

Jul 10, 2025 - A new open-source Python library for building powerful and flexible Gemini applications with streamlined, real-time multimodal processing.

#open source #google #Python #GAI #resource

Announcing GenAI Processors: Build powerful and flexible Gemini applications

Medical needles in the hands of AI: Advancing toward autonomous robotic navigation

Jul 9, 2025 - AI guidance is enabling robots to perform medical needle-based procedures with greater safety and accuracy.

#UNC Chapel Hill #AI #biomedical

Medical needles in the hands of AI: Advancing toward autonomous robotic navigation

Research-integrity sleuths say their work is being ‘twisted’ to undermine science

Jul 9, 2025 - Some sleuths fear that the business of cleaning up flawed studies is being weaponized against science itself.

#data #research #ethics #Trump

Research-integrity sleuths say their work is being ‘twisted’ to undermine science

CUNY Professor Receives $1.78M Simons Foundation Grant to Launch Climate Data Science Research Group

Jul 9, 2025 - Professor Viviana Acquaviva (GC/City Tech, Physics, Astrophysics) has received a $1.78 million grant from the Simons Foundation to build a research group in the emerging field of climate data science.

#environment #data science #Simons Foundation #CUNY Graduate Center #astronomy #physics #machine learning

CUNY Professor Receives $1.78M Simons Foundation Grant to Launch Climate Data Science Research Group

'Sovereignty' Myth-Making in the AI Race

Jul 7, 2025 - Tech companies stand to gain by encouraging the illusion of a race for 'sovereign' AI, write Rui-Jie Yew, Kate Elizabeth Creasey, Suresh Venkatasubramanian.

#AI #policy #Brown #ADSA member #Nvidia #GAI #LLM #open source

'Sovereignty' Myth-Making in the AI Race

Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations

Jun 30, 2025 - Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up?

#AI #ethics #GAI #machine learning

Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations

Predicting the Future of Supercomputing

Jul 1, 2025 - The need to solve high-complexity problems using large-scale tightly coupled computing (that is, supercomputing) continues to grow. In this article, we address the needs, challenges, and opportunities for supercomputing over the next decade.

#computing #AI

Predicting the Future of Supercomputing

Making the Case for the CS Degree in the Age of Artificial Intelligence » CCC Blog

Jul 3, 2025 - Boise State University Associate Professor Casey Kennington's recent article draws directly from The Future of Programming in the Age of Large Language Models

#computer science #AI #LLM #GAI #communication #CRA #career

Making the Case for the CS Degree in the Age of Artificial Intelligence » CCC Blog

This AI ‘thinks’ like a human — after training on 160 psychology studies

Jul 2, 2025 - The Centaur model goes beyond single tasks and predicts a wide array of human behaviour.

#Helmholtz Institute #AI

This AI ‘thinks’ like a human — after training on 160 psychology studies

Signs of AI-generated text found in 14% of biomedical abstracts last year

Jul 2, 2025 - Abstracts included telltale words, such as ‘unparalleled’ and ‘invaluable’, that are common in text generated by large language models.

#University College London #GAI #LLM

Signs of AI-generated text found in 14% of biomedical abstracts last year

Appalachian State University Develops AI-Driven Robotic Microscope

Jul 1, 2025 - Researchers used a $2.3 million grant from NCInnovation, which supports commercializing research discoveries, to develop a robotic microscope to help farmers find and count animal parasites.

#Appalachian State University #AI

Appalachian State University Develops AI-Driven Robotic Microscope

Chris Kanich earns highest UIC teaching honor

Jun 25, 2025 - Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies Chris Kanich received UIC’s Award for Excellence in Teaching for 2025-2026.

#computer science #University of Illinois Chicago #ADSA member

Chris Kanich earns highest UIC teaching honor

Georgetown's MDI is Hiring: Fall 2025 MDI Scholars

Jul 1, 2025 - A call for applications for the Fall 2025 cohort of the MDI Scholars Program

#Georgetown University

Georgetown's MDI is Hiring: Fall 2025 MDI Scholars

2024-2025 Digital Accessibility Fellows Champion Access and Inclusion at UC Irvine

Jun 27, 2025 - To enhance the culture of digital accessibility across campus, associate professor of Informatics Stacy Branham partnered with UC Irvine’s Information

#UC Irvine #ADSA member #DEI

2024-2025 Digital Accessibility Fellows Champion Access and Inclusion at UC Irvine

Emory | When talking about AI, definitions matter

Jun 25, 2025 - In this Q&A, Joe Sutherland, director of the Center for AI Learning, answers common questions about artificial general intelligence and what it means for our future.

#Emory University #AI

Emory | When talking about AI, definitions matter

UW eScience Staff Spotlight: Bryna Hazelton

Jun 26, 2025 - Bryna Hazelton is the Director of Research Programs and Senior Research Scientist.

#University of Washington #ADSA member

UW eScience Staff Spotlight: Bryna Hazelton

Conversation at UC Berkeley workshop shares perspectives on AI and humanity

Jun 30, 2025 - A recent discussion at the National Workshop on Data Science Education illustrated the value of open conversation about the impact of AI on humanity.

#UC Berkeley #data science #dssg #AI

Conversation at UC Berkeley workshop shares perspectives on AI and humanity

UNC-CH SDSS Faculty Member Alex McAvoy builds bridges between AI and population dynamics in special feature of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Jun 27, 2025 - his special feature presents nine articles that explore the intersection of artificial intelligence, evolutionary dynamics and game theory.

#UNC Chapel Hill #ADSA member #AI

UNC-CH SDSS Faculty Member Alex McAvoy builds bridges between AI and population dynamics in special feature of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

UVA SDS | Courtney Hodge discusses how data science is helping realtors on CBS19's ‘Inside The Numbers’

Jun 27, 2025 - M.S. in Data Science graduate Courtney Hodge discusses data science and its importance in the real estate industry on this month's "Inside the Numbers."

#university of virginia #ADSA member

UVA SDS | Courtney Hodge discusses how data science is helping realtors on CBS19's ‘Inside The Numbers’

UVA SDS | Jonathan Swap discusses capstone on CBS19 for ‘Inside The Numbers’

Jun 27, 2025 - M.S. in Data Science graduate Jonathan Swap discussed his capstone, "Detecting Temporal Anomalies in Multispectral Satellite Imagery," on "Inside the Numbers."

#university of virginia #ADSA member

UVA SDS | Jonathan Swap discusses capstone on CBS19 for ‘Inside The Numbers’

UChicago's Hank Snowdon Took a Swing at Data Science and Landed in the MLB

Jul 1, 2025 - After graduating from the MS in Applied Data Science program in Dec. 2024, Hank Snowdon packed his bags and headed west, joining the Seattle Mariners as a data scientist.

#UChicago #ADSA member #data science

UChicago's Hank Snowdon Took a Swing at Data Science and Landed in the MLB

U-M Ann Arbor | Yeyuan Chen wins Best Student Paper Award at STOC 2025

Jun 25, 2025- His winning paper, coauthored with Zihan Zhang from Ohio State University, is titled “Explicit Folded Reed-Solomon and Multiplicity Codes Achieve Relaxed Generalized Singleton Bounds.”

#computer science #ACM #University of Michigan-Ann Arbor #Ohio State University

U-M Ann Arbor | Yeyuan Chen wins Best Student Paper Award at STOC 2025

UPenn Engineering Impact of Research

Jun 30, 2025 - Each day, in every school at Penn, researchers are making strides to cure diseases, improve lives, and better understand our world.

#UPenn #NIH #dssg #engineering #NSF

UPenn Engineering Impact of Research

Wake up call for AI: computer-vision research increasingly used for surveillance

Jun 25, 2025 - One analysis suggests that 90% of studies in the field involve data relating to humans.

#ethics #computing #dssg #AI

Wake up call for AI: computer-vision research increasingly used for surveillance

Bill Gropp Retires, Capping a Legacy in HPC and AI at NCSA

Jun 25, 2025 - After eight impressive years as NCSA’s Director, Bill Gropp is announcing his retirement.

#University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign #NSF #ADSA member

Bill Gropp Retires, Capping a Legacy in HPC and AI at NCSA

UUtah | Students Use AI to Solve Air Quality Challenges at Inaugural Hackathon

Jun 27, 2025 - The Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute's Breath of Fresh Air AI Hackathon took place after a month of preparation by 15 virtual training sessions or office hours.

#ADSA member #University of Utah #AI #environment #aws #dssg

UUtah | Students Use AI to Solve Air Quality Challenges at Inaugural Hackathon

The “Secret Sauce” of Silicon Valley: NVIDIA Chief Scientist Bill Dally on Government’s Role in Tech Breakthroughs

Jun 26, 2025 - Bill Dally, Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Research at NVIDIA, said that government research, combined with private sector ingenuity, cultivates a deep pool of talent essential to U.S. industry and it generates the breakthrough technologies.

#Nvidia #partnership #collaboration #funding #CRA #higher ed #data science

The “Secret Sauce” of Silicon Valley: NVIDIA Chief Scientist Bill Dally on Government’s Role in Tech Breakthroughs

Mentor Assistance Program Finale Held at San Diego Supercomputer Center

Jun 24, 2025 - The program enabled more than 50 San Diego high school students to participate in year-round research projects with dedicated mentors throughout the UC San Diego campus.

#ADSA member #UC San Diego #K12 #dssg #career

Mentor Assistance Program Finale Held at San Diego Supercomputer Center