Data Science Institute

Data Science Institute

The mission of the Data Science Institute (DSI) at Brown University is to stimulate innovation and support people aspiring to improve lives in our data-driven world.

Data Science Institute

The mission of the Data Science Institute (DSI) at Brown University is to stimulate innovation and support people aspiring to improve lives in our data-driven world.

DSI engages people across campus and beyond, to: 

 

  • Educate all in data fluency and advanced area-specific applications of data science methods 
  • Stimulate large-scale multidisciplinary research developing and applying data science methods to multiple data modalities
  • Ensure that the power of data be leveraged toward a more equitable society

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News from CCMB

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

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.
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News from CCMB

Tiny parasites and giant computers: Cecile Meier-Scherling is taking on malaria with computational genomics.

CCMB graduate student Cecile Meier-Scherling is tackling the computational challenges of drug-resistant malaria with the one of the world’s fastest supercomputers after receiving the Frontera Computational Science Fellowship.
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News From CNTR

AI Bill of Rights: A Podcast Discussion with Dr. Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Check out the latest episode of the podcast The Internet is Crack, where CNTR Director and co-author of the AI Bill of Rights Suresh Venkatasubramanian sits down with the podcast hosts to discuss AI, fairness, accountability, and the future of algorithmic decision-making.
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Academic Programs

Undergraduate Programs

Data Science options for undergraduates include a Certificate in Data Fluency and the Data Science Fellows program trains undergraduates to collaborate with faculty to build more data science into course curricula.

Research Centers