DSI became the Data Science Institute at Brown on July 1, 2023 after seven years as an “Initiative” and much hard work. We’re looking back at some highlights and the state of the Institute after a successful year.

Get to know Ying Ma, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Core Faculty at the Center for Computational Molecular Biology (CCMB).

Get to know Karianne Bergen, Assistant Professor of Data Science and Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences and DSI Director of Postdoctoral Engagement.

Get to know Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Deputy Director of the Data Science Institute, Professor of Data Science and Computer Science, and Director of the Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination, and Redesign.

DSI celebrates our 2024 graduating students with an Undergrad and PhD Lunch and a Master's Dinner during Commencement Weekend. Congratulations to our graduating students!

Congratulations to all of the graduating students earning their doctoral, master’s, and undergraduate degrees from DSI-related programs this year!

Each year, DSI awards a number of seed grants to researchers pursuing data science projects across the university. DSI recently announced the grantees of the 2024 Data Science Seed Grants @ Brown and celebrated the accomplishments of the 2023 grantees.

Held in Toronto, Canada, last month, the IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (IEEE SATML) focuses on expanding on the theoretical and practical understandings of vulnerabilities inherent to ML systems, exploring the robustness of ML algorithms and systems, and aiding in developing a unified, coherent scientific community which aims to build trustworthy ML systems. The event’s organizers recognized only two papers with their Distinguished Paper Award, and new research by Brown CS PhD student Victor Ojewale was one of them.

Congratulations to CCMB and CNTR’s doctoral candidates who successfully defended their dissertations this year!

This year's Deep Learning Day (actually held across two days due to large participation) showcased student projects across a myriad of fields, from computer vision to healthcare to art, and included many projects from DSI students.

DSI and CS Master’s students in Professor Roberta DeVito’s DATA2020: Statistical Learning class gathered at DSI for an engaging poster session on their statistical learning projects this week.

Brown University’s Dean of the Faculty gives out five different awards annually to recognize continued excellence in teaching, and this year, Brown CS and Data Science Institute faculty member Ritambhara Singh has received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching for a junior faculty member from the physical or life sciences.

Congratulations to DSI postdoc Cristina Menghini and Brown colleagues Stephen Bach (Assistant Professor of Computer Science) and Yong Zheng-Xin (PhD student in Computer Science)!

Professor Venkatasubramanian made the list as one of The Chronicle of Philanthropy's "33 Leaders Standing Up to Big Tech in the Age of A.I."

DSI has made grants supporting nine projects at Brown.

DSI's Director of Graduate Studies, Andras Zsom, led a workshop called "Introduction to Interpretability in Machine Learning."

Brown University recently became a member of the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN). PIT-UN fosters collaboration between universities and colleges to build the field of public interest technology and nurture a new generation of civic-minded technologists. This

Linda Clark, newly promoted to Senior Lecturer of Data Science, has been the driving force behind DSI’s undergraduate education programs at Brown.

On Tuesday, February 7, the Brown faculty voted in favor of creating a Brown Data Science Institute, building on the Data Science Initiative that was created here in 2016.

Tassallah Amina Abdullahi, a second-year doctoral student in Computer Science, has won a highly competitive Computational and Data Science Fellowship from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (ACM SIGHPC).

Stephen Bach (Assistant Professor of Computer Science) and Jonathan Pober (Assistant Professor of Physics), along with colleagues at the University of Washington, have been awarded a Collaborative Research grant from the National Science Foundation

The incoming co-chairs of DSI's Campus Advisory Board are Stephen Bach (Assistant Professor of Computer Science) and Margot Jackson (Professor of Sociology).

DSI's newest Lecturer, Shekhar Pradhan, started at Brown July 1 and is taking on the role of Director of Graduate Studies as well as teaching our existing DATA 1050 (Data Engineering) and a new course on text analytics (coming spring 2023).

DSI’s three postdocs are moving to new positions as the new academic year begins. 

Congratulations to DSI’s Roberta DeVito (jointly appointed in Biostatistics), for winning the American Statistical Association’s 2022 W.J. Youden Award in Interlaboratory Testing

On Wednesday, April 13, Brown University was treated to a "fireside chat" between Dr. Megan Ranney and Dr. Eric Perakslis.

Brown’s Data Fluency Certificate provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to gain fundamental conceptual knowledge and technical skills in data analysis.

Ainsley Clapp (Class of 2022) is a concentrator in Social Analysis and Research (SAR). 

Karianne Bergen, Assistant Professor of Data Science and Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at Brown recently sat down with Sam Charrington on his podcast, "The TWIML AI Podcast" to discuss machine learning for earthquake seismology.

Brown’s Data Science Fellows program pairs faculty members with Brown undergraduates who have data science skills and experience to bring to the project.

The Brown University Financial Report for fiscal year 2021 (which ended June 30, 2021) highlights the exciting work in data science happening on campus in the “Making an Impact" section.

An introduction to DSI's Newest Faculty Member.

Data and data science techniques are increasingly relevant in a wide range of disciplines.

About one year ago, DSI announced a new interim director, Sohini Ramachandran. Today, we are happy to announce that Professor Ramachandran is officially Director of the Data Science Initiative. Below is Provost Locke's email announcement. 

It's no secret that data has become an unavoidable part of daily life. Between online messaging, electronic business records, social media, and other forms of both passive and active data collection, our personal, everyday stories are chronicled by the internet of things around us.