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.

The Brown Data Science Initiative is pleased to announce the appointment of Andras Zsom to the position of Director of Industry and Research Engagement and Assistant Professor of the Practice in Data Science, effective August 16, 2021.

Students from Linda Clark’s new course, Data Science Fluency (DATA 0200), have been considering the ethical and societal implications of data and data science through the lenses of their class projects.

Though we are not really all back on campus, we are starting the new academic year, and DSI is beginning 2020-2021 with important changes.

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Sarah Brown, currently a DSI Postdoctoral Fellow, has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rhode Island and will move to URI in August 2020.

William Jordan, a member of the first cohort of Data Science master’s degree students, is a recipient of the 2019 Joukowsky Family Foundation Outstanding Dissertation Award.

A new initiative on campus this semester is both an exciting learning opportunity for undergraduates and a valuable resource for faculty.

The Brown Data Science Club hosted its fifth annual Datathon on February 22-23, 2020. 

A research project of Brown sociology PhD student Thomas Marlow has garnered media attention stemming from an article in the Guardian, which featured at the top of the Guardian’s US page when it came out.

The Data Science Initiative and the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning embarked on a partnership at the beginning of the current academic year to add data science to the curriculum across campus through the Data Science Fellows program, which trains undergraduates to support faculty in adding data science to their courses.  

DSI Director Bjorn Sandstede and DSI professor Roger Blumberg spoke about data science to an audience of about 75 graduate students last week, as part of the Brown Graduate School’s Academy in Context program.

On April 25, DSI hosted the annual meeting of “Being Human in STEM” (HSTEM), an initiative that “aims to foster a more inclusive, supportive STEM community by helping students, faculty, and staff collaboratively develop a framework to understand and navigate diverse identities in the classroom, lab, and beyond.”

The DSI has awarded its first Data Science @ Brown research grant to a project entitled "A Quantitative Measure of Freedom of Assembly," a collaboration between Jesse Shapiro of Brown’s Department of Economics, Yusuf Neggers (Michigan), and Mehdi Shadmehr (Calgary and Chicago).

Transdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science (TRIPODS) is a National Science Foundation (NSF) program that created twelve institutes to investigate foundational problems in data science over three years, one located at Brown University.

My name is Erin Bugbee, and I am a Junior, concentrating in Statistics and Behavioral Decision Sciences with a specialization in Artificial Intelligence.

On Wednesday, August 29, the DSI staff and faculty met the 40 new students who will be earning their Sc.M. in Data Science at Brown.