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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.”

#ADSA member #University of Washington #dssg

UW eScience Institute | Staff Spotlight: Anissa Tanweer

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.

#UC Berkeley #humanities #ADSA member

UC Berkeley BIDS | Digital Dunhuang Caves: Preserving a World Heritage Site Through Data and Technology

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.

#university of virginia #ADSA member

UVA SDS | Stephen Turner on returning to academia

UVA SDS Ph.D. Student Profile: Medhasweta Sen

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.

#university of virginia #ADSA member #AI #LLM #dssg #ethics

UVA SDS Ph.D. Student Profile: Medhasweta Sen

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.

#UPenn #AI #data #open source #Allen Institute for AI

UPenn | AI Vision, Reinvented: The Power of Synthetic Data

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.

#Penn State #data #AI #ADSA member

Penn State University Libraries to host August speakers on AI, the Data Rescue Project

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.

#University of Michigan-Ann Arbor #AI

U-M Ann Arbor | Improving AI models: Automated tool detects silent errors in deep learning training

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.

#LLM #math #DeepMind

DeepMind and OpenAI models solve maths problems at level of top students

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.

#Georgia Tech #computing

Georgia Tech building supercomputer it hopes will speed up the future

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.

#sociotechnical systems #gender #GAI #ChatGPT #Claude #Llama #Qwen #Mixtral

Salary negotiation bias from chatbots

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.

#statistics #data science #program management #K12 #ASA

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.

#MIT #GAI

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.

#AI #dssg #Stanford

Stanford Report highlights AI’s potential to support learners with disabilities

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.

#undergrad #data science #Harvard #ADSA member

Harvard HDSI | Meet the 2025 SPUDS Fellows

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.

#University of Surrey #data #ethics #health #GAI #LLM #open source

Low-quality papers based on public health data are flooding the scientific literature

Mapping the Academic Open Source Ecosystem: Insights from a Community Survey

Jul 15, 2025 - SustainOSS Academic Ecosystem Map

#open source #data #community #higher ed #RSE

Mapping the Academic Open Source Ecosystem: Insights from a Community Survey

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.

#data #FAIR #data management #DEI #ethics #IEEE #higher ed

How Universities Can Ensure Equitable Access to Data

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.

#AI #University of Washington #software #engineering #computer science #GAI #education

Coding is dead: UW computer science program rethinks curriculum for the AI era

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.

#University of Toronto #AI #environment

UToronto | AI used to ‘democratize’ how we predict the weather

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.

#Duke University #AI #quantum computing #biomedical #budget

The rocket scientist behind Duke's AI push: A conversation with Provost Alec Gallimore

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.

#LLM #Switzerland #computing #policy #dssg

A language model built for the public good

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.

#Virginia Tech #data science

Virginia Tech’s Academy of Data Science begins a new era

Emory | Where Tradition Meets High-Tech Scholarship

Jul 8, 2025 - Digital humanities at Emory foster a deeper understanding of the world we live in.

#humanities #Emory University #AI #interdisciplinary

Emory | Where Tradition Meets High-Tech Scholarship

State AI leaders gather at Princeton to consider how the technology can improve public services

Jul 11, 2025 - The conference brought together more than 100 AI leaders, representing 25 states.

#AI #Princeton #policy #New Jersey #dssg

State AI leaders gather at Princeton to consider how the technology can improve public services

SciML Summer School a Success with Students - TAMIDS

Jul 14, 2025 - Members of the TAMIDS team and the Student Ambassador program hosted a week-long scientific machine learning summer school!

#Texas A&M University #ADSA member #NASA #collaboration #AI

SciML Summer School a Success with Students - TAMIDS

eScience Institute | Staff Spotlight: Cordero Core

Jul 11, 2025 - Cordero Core is a Senior Research Software Engineer at our Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC).

#University of Washington #ADSA member

eScience Institute | Staff Spotlight: Cordero Core

OSU TDAI Hosts International Conference on Scalable Scientific Data Management (SSDBM 2025)

Jul 10, 2025 - The Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) at The Ohio State University proudly hosted the 37th International Conference on Scalable Scientific Data Management (SSDBM 2025).

#Ohio State University #ADSA member

OSU TDAI Hosts International Conference on Scalable Scientific Data Management (SSDBM 2025)

UNC-CH SDSS faculty member Can Chen selected for program for early career scholars at Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Jul 10, 2025 - The program provides early career scholars at non-Swedish universities with an opportunity to visit the largest institution in Sweden for technical education and research.

#UNC Chapel Hill #ADSA member #KTH Royal Institute of Technology

UNC-CH SDSS faculty member Can Chen selected for program for early career scholars at Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology

UChicago DSI Alums Talk Careers in Data Science for Social Good at Parliament Data

Jul 11, 2025 - Data scientists from Parliament Data return to campus to share insights into client services for social impact.

#UChicago #data science #dssg #ADSA member

UChicago DSI Alums Talk Careers in Data Science for Social Good at Parliament Data

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.”