NJIT Students Shine at Bank of America Code-a-Thon with Innovative
May 5, 2025 - Four standout students were selected from NJIT’s top talent to represent the university.
Academic Data Science
BU Fall 2025 CDS Course Spotlight
May 5, 2025 - This course offering, DS 574 - Algorithmic Mechanism Design, focuses on algorithm mathematics and strategic investigations.
UCSD Expanse System at SDSC Helps Illustrate Way to Control Magnetism for Storage Solution
May 6, 2025 - Controlling magnetism at the atomic level using electric fields may be used to create ultra-efficient electronic devices that perform faster and use less energy.
UW eScience Institute | How Busy are National Parks and other Public Lands?
May 2, 2025 - The U.S. Department of the Interior partnered with expert researchers at the University of Washington’s Outdoor Recreation and Data Lab and the eScience Institute to inform its approach to improving outdoor recreation data as required by the law.
UPenn DDD Welcomes 2025 Data Science Postdoctoral Fellows
May 5, 2025 - These scholars bring together deep disciplinary knowledge paired with cutting-edge expertise in data science, and will contribute to a growing interdisciplinary community at Penn.
Researchers consider innovative, inclusive ways to develop and scale computational health
May 7, 2025 - Researchers from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco convened a conference to share progress and challenges in connecting disparate healthcare data to improve clinical decision-making and patient outcomes.
Making AI models more trustworthy for high-stakes settings
May 1, 2025 - MIT researchers made a technique that improves the trustworthiness of machine-learning models, which could help improve the accuracy and reliability of AI predictions for high-stakes settings such health care.
CEOs push AI and CS for high schoolers
May 5, 2025 - More than 200 CEOs signed a letter today urging state leaders to mandate artificial intelligence and computer science classes as a high school graduation requirement.
Data-driven ventures earn $100,000 in 2025 UTSA Draper Competition
Apr. 28, 2025 - Four out of eight competing teams from across the U.S., Mexico and Canada took home $100,000 in prize money in the 2025 UTSA Draper Data Science Business Plan Competition.
UCSD | Expanse Supercomputer Used to Analyze Unprecedented Number of Stars in Other Galaxies
Apr. 29, 2025 - A team of international scientists has embarked on a massive project to map the chemical history of our Milky Way galaxy and its neighbors using a a powerful new instrument called the Prime Focus Spectrograph.
Cybersecurity Researcher at NJIT Toughens Git Software Repositories
Apr. 29, 2025 - Curtmola and his NYU peers won a Distinguished Paper award at the Internet Society’s Network and Distributed System Security symposium in San Diego.
NC State | Data in Bloom
May 1, 2025 - Data Science and AI Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Kelsey Virginia Dufresne, explores the role of flowers, art, and community in data science by participating in and creating a floral installation for the North Carolina Museum of Art’s (NCMA) 2025 Art in Bloom fundraiser.
UNC-CH School of Data Science and Society celebrates its inaugural class of graduates
May 2, 2025 - In January 2024, SDSS first launched the online Master of Applied Data Science (MADS) for working professionals. Since then, enrollment has grown to more than 130 students.
UVA SDS | Brian Wright Receives 2025 All-University Teaching Award
Apr. 30, 2025 - Quantitative Foundation Associate Professor of Data Science Brian Wright has been named a recipient of the UVA 2025 All-University Teaching Award.
UVA SDS | Master’s in Data Science Students Showcase Real-World Solutions in 2025 Capstone Presentations
May 2, 2025 - M.S. in Data Science students presented their capstone research projects in the Rotunda.
UToronto | Building a VR Community: DSI Hosts Second Annual Questioning Reality Conference
May 1, 2025 - The conference began with a series of mini-grant lightning talks, featuring research teams that had received DSI grants following the 2024 Questioning Reality conference.
UChicago | Reflections from UPCEA 2025: Exploring Data Science and Ethics in Higher Education
May 1, 2025 - Three members of the University of Chicago’s MS in Applied Data Science (MS-ADS) team led a roundtable at the 2025 UPCEA Conference.
Penn | Empowering Futures: How PRECISE Center’s Mentorship with Google is Transforming Academic Careers and Innovation
May 2, 2025 - “It takes a village to raise a child,” the old saying goes. In the world of academic research, the same principle holds true.
HDSI | Newly Funded – Climate Stress, Nutrition, and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa
May 2, 2025 - The research aims to identify vulnerable populations affected by climate change and poor nutrition, develop climate-resilient strategies, and demonstrate the effectiveness of digital health tools for research in resource-limited settings.
Nobel laureate John Jumper returns to UChicago to discuss the AlphaFold protein revolution
May 1, 2025 - Alum John Jumper delivered Bloch Lecture at standing-room-only event.
MIT Working Group on Scholarly Content and Generative AI
Apr. 28, 2025 - MIT announced a Working Group on Scholarly Content and Generative AI that will advise the Institute on best practices for community members and units using scholarly content to train generative AI (GenAI) models.
The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete
Apr. 25, 2025 - The role is basically obsolete thanks to the breakneck speed of AI development and companies’ own maturity in terms of understanding how to use the technology.
Data Rescue Project | ERICA to the Rescue!
Apr. 28, 2025 - Several volunteers and partners of the Data Rescue Project (DRP) have been working tirelessly for the last few weeks to back up the ERIC catalog and full-text PDFs.
UPenn engineers first to train AI at lightspeed
Apr. 25, 2025 - Penn engineers have developed the first photonic chip that reshapes how light behaves to carry out the nonlinear mathematics at the heart of modern AI while reducing energy use.
Novel course at Yale translates data from the natural world into art
Apr. 24, 2025 - In a new course, Yale students are using AI technologies to transform natural phenomena into artistic performances.
When it comes to reading the room, humans are still better than AI
Apr. 24, 2025 - Hopkins research shows AI models fall short in predicting social interactions, a skill critical for systems to navigate the real world.
UCSD SDSC Participates in HPC Education Project to Produce New Cyber Training Catalog
Apr. 24, 2025 - SDSC's Mary Thomas has been participating in a U.S. multi-institutional initiative that streamlines discovery and collaboration through an innovative cyber training catalog.
UMass Amherst | Luna Dziewietin Receives Outstanding Undergraduate Achievement Award
Apr. 22, 2025 - Luna, a fourth-year undergraduate majoring in Informatics & Social Thought in Political Economy major and member of the DS4CG 2024 team, wins the Outstanding Undergraduate Achievement Award!
TAMU TAMIDS Travel Grant Program for Students
Apr. 23, 2025 - The Texas A&M Institute of Data Science (TAMIDS) Student Travel Grant Program supports undergraduate and graduate students to attend and talk at conferences in any domain of Data Science, AI, and Machine Learning.
UWisconsin DSI Special Seminar with Dr. Talitha Washington
Apr. 23, 2025 - Join the Data Science Institute on May 16 for a seminar with Dr. Talitha Washington, Howard University.