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.

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!

Brenda Rubenstein, Stephen Bach, and Ying Ma have been appointed to named professorships following May’s Corporation Meeting.

Data losses may pose a problem for researchers using government data for their projects.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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).

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

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.

An introduction to DSI's Newest Faculty Member.

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. 

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.