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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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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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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News from DSI
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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Data losses may pose a problem for researchers using government data for their projects.
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News from DSI
Brenda Rubenstein Named New DSI Director
Provost Francis J. Doyle III announced that Brenda Rubenstein, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Physics, has been named the Director of the Data Sciences Institute (DSI), effective July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028.
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News from DSI
DSI welcomes 115 new and returning affiliated faculty
This summer, DSI put out a call for Brown faculty from across the university to join our affiliated faculty. DSI accepted sixty-one new faculty affiliates this week and now hosts a community of 115 faculty affiliates whose research or teaching involves data or computational science.
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This course will provide a taste of the curriculum for DSI and SPS's upcoming Online MS program in Data Policy and Governance, starting Fall 2025.
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Brown Computer Science News
Diana Freed Joins Brown CS And DSI As Assistant Professor
Diana Freed joins Brown CS and Brown’s Data Science Institute as an assistant professor. Diana is involved in an emerging area of computer science focused on building and designing technologies specifically to improve online safety and well-being for vulnerable and marginalized populations globally.
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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.
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News from DSI
A minute with Ying Ma
Get to know Ying Ma, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Core Faculty at the Center for Computational Molecular Biology (CCMB).
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News from CCMB
CCMB Announces Emilia Huerta-Sanchez as new Director
CCMB is pleased to announce Emilia Huerta-Sanchez as CCMB Director, effective July 1, 2024.
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News from DSI
A minute with Karianne Bergen
Get to know Karianne Bergen, Assistant Professor of Data Science and Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences and DSI Director of Postdoctoral Engagement.
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A minute with Suresh Venkatasubramanian
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.
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The Cogut Institute launches its collaborative humanities lab program with a three-year project exploring AI.
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Brown Computer Science News
Ritambhara Singh Receives Brown University's Dean's Award For Excellence In Teaching
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.
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Congratulations to CCMB’s Ritambhara Singh (Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science), Jeff Bailey (Associate Professor of Translational Research in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine), and David Rand (Stephen T. Olney Professor of Natural History, Chair of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology)!
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Daniel Weinreich, Director of the Center for Computational Molecular Biology, recently published a new textbook with MIT Press.
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News from CCMB
CCMB Welcomes Assistant Professor Ying Ma
The Center for Computational Molecular Biology welcomes Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Ying Ma, to its core faculty.
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News from DSI
Professor Venkatasubramanian stands up to Big Tech
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."
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DSI's Director of Graduate Studies, Andras Zsom, led a workshop called "Introduction to Interpretability in Machine Learning."
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News from DSI
Faculty Spotlight: Linda Clark
Linda Clark, newly promoted to Senior Lecturer of Data Science, has been the driving force behind DSI’s undergraduate education programs at Brown.
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian served as a White House advisor for the nation’s first “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights,” helping to develop a guide to ethical practices in an era of data-driven technologies.
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News from DSI
Shekhar Pradhan Joins DSI Faculty
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).
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News from DSI
Roberta DeVito Receives Award
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
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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.
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News from DSI
Five Questions for Suresh Venkatasubramanian
An introduction to DSI's Newest Faculty Member.
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News from DSI
Officially Announcing DSI Director Sohini Ramachandran
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.
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DSI Welcomes Andras Zsom
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.
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