The Data Science Institute's new Director has exciting plans to "transform the field of data science and develop the next generation of innovators."

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.

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!

During Spring 2025, nine PhD students successfully defended their dissertations from DSI, CCMB, and CNTR.

Congratulations to graduating seniors Anna Lapre, Michelle Ding, Catie Manning, and Gabriela Becher!

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.

Five professors across various disciplines spoke at the “Data in the Trump/DOGE Era” panel on Monday.

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

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.

Brown DSI & CSREA welcome AI policy expert Dr. Alondra Nelson to speak on governing the future of artificial intelligence.

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.

On November 11, DSI hosted a mixer for our Affiliated Faculty community to meet, mingle, and learn about each other's work.

On Friday October 18, DSI hosted Brown's first Women in Data Science (WiDS) Providence Conference, organized by DSI students and postdocs and featuring experts from data science industry and academia.

On October 15, DSI launched a new Online Data Science Master’s program in collaboration with the Brown School of Professional Studies with a unique curriculum focused on policy, governance, and ethics in data science.

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.

During National Postdoc Appreciation Week 2024, DSI is highlighting our postdocs and their range of impactful work.

Meet the incoming PhD students who will be joining CCMB and CNTR this year.

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.

A unique undergraduate class on data visualization and narrative taught this past spring thrills students and teaches valuable skills in data science and design.

Gianluca Brero, a DSI and CS postdoc who recently became an Assistant Professor at Bryant University, discusses his research on using real-world data and AI to improve the design and fairness of markets like Uber, AirBnB, mobile network license auctions, and sustainable energy.

Alden Bumstead, DSI’s Associate Director, is retiring after seven years at the Data Science Institute. She has shepherded DSI through its growth from a small program to a thriving Institute at Brown.

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.