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A minute with Andras Zsom
Get to know Andras Zsom, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Data Science and Director of Graduate Studies for Brown's Data Science Master's Program.
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Ritambhara Singh, an Associate 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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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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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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'Sovereignty' Myth-Making in the AI Race
In the age of modern AI and politics, governments like the United States want sovereign AI: "self-sufficiency in the development of AI technologies." But the tech companies that have created this new technology have turned AI sovereignty into subscription services, "encouraging the illusion of a race for sovereign control while being the true powers behind the scenes."
In a new perspective piece published on TechPolicy.Press, Brown AI Policy researchers discuss AI sovereignty, sovereignty as a service, and where the power really lies between tech companies and governments.
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In a new perspective piece published on TechPolicy.Press, Brown AI Policy researchers discuss AI sovereignty, sovereignty as a service, and where the power really lies between tech companies and governments.
In a video interview, the leader of Brown’s Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination and Redesign discussed the anxieties and possibilities surrounding artificial intelligence.
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian recently gave one of the keynote talks at the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Athens, Greece this June.
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DSI Welcomes New Director, Brenda Rubenstein
The Data Science Institute's new Director has exciting plans to "transform the field of data science and develop the next generation of innovators."
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Speaking before a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee, Brown University chemist and physicist Brenda Rubenstein called America’s universities “incubators that grow the future quantum workforce.”
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Congratulations to Rui-Jie Yew, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, and Jeff Huang on winning a Best Paper Award at the 2025 DIS Conference for their paper: "Copyrighting Generative AI Co-Creations."
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DSI Faculty Roberta De Vito and Shekhar Pradhan will be leaving Brown at the end of the month after years of service to the Data Science Institute and Brown. We are so lucky to have had them as a part of our DSI community, and we wish them great success and joy in their future endeavors!
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Three DSI Faculty earn named professorships
Brenda Rubenstein, Stephen Bach, and Ying Ma have been appointed to named professorships following May’s Corporation Meeting.
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DSI Celebrates 2025 Commencement Weekend
Commencement Weekend 2025 was a joyous occasion, with students and families celebrating their loved ones’ achievements all throughout campus. At DSI, we gathered on Friday to celebrate our Undergraduate and PhD students with a Commencement Lunch, and again on Saturday for dinner to celebrate our Master’s students. Congratulations to all our graduating students!
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PhD Defenses Flood the Floor this Spring
During Spring 2025, nine PhD students successfully defended their dissertations from DSI, CCMB, and CNTR.
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Congratulations to graduating seniors Anna Lapre, Michelle Ding, Catie Manning, and Gabriela Becher!
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2025 Graduating Student Spotlights
DSI is home to multiple undergraduate and graduate academic programs, each with passionate and inspiring students. Hear from some of our graduating students and explore what has inspired them at Brown.
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CCMB PhD student Shevaughn Holness is one of 3 Brown students awarded funding from the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program to continue her work on population genetics.
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Three Brown University undergraduates and two recent alumni were named among this year’s classes of Goldwater, Truman, Gates Cambridge and Ellison scholars.
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The horizon is wide open for Brown’s young and hungry Center for Technological Responsibility, Re-imagination, and Redesign (CNTR).
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Five professors across various disciplines spoke at the “Data in the Trump/DOGE Era” panel on Monday.
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Skylar Walters, an undergraduate concentrator at CCMB, has a bright future ahead of her in computational biology research.
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Data losses may pose a problem for researchers using government data for their projects.
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In February, Data Fluency Certificate undergraduate students Sima Raha, Nazifa Qazizada, and Computational Biology undergraduate Hannah Beakley attended the WECode Conference at Harvard University, learning from tech industry leaders and connecting with fellow students.
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Brown DSI & CSREA welcome AI policy expert Dr. Alondra Nelson to speak on governing the future of artificial intelligence.
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