DSI affiliated faculty member Mark Blenner has been appointed to the inaugural Early Career Researcher Editorial Board of Biotechnology and Bioengineering. The board will explore current and future directions in bioengineering, elevate emerging perspectives and foster collaboration.

UD’s Data Science Institute recently sponsored a symposium on artificial intelligence and ethics.

DSI Infrastructure Working Group member Tracy Shickel, associate vice president for corporate engagement, is among several members of the UD community named to the Delaware Business Times list of Delaware’s 222 influential business, nonprofit and civic leaders for 2026.

DSI Faculty Council member Thomas M. Powers, director of the Center for Science, Ethics & Public Policy associate professor of philosophy and the Biden School of Public Policy and Administration, and lead of the Ethics Working Group of the First State AI Institute, is part of a  group of international researchers who recently coauthored “Roadmap for Responsible Robotics”, published in IEEE Robotics and Automation.

DSI affiliated faculty member Daniel Harris, assistant professor of epidemiology, spoke at the Gerontological Society of America’s (GSA) 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting in Boston in November. His presentation was entitled, “Evaluation of the Choose Home Intervention to Reduce Health Services Use and Promote Aging in Place.”

Lost or abandoned crab pots pose both environmental and navigational risks as they litter the seafloor, damage boat propellers and trap marine life. At an event hosted by UD’s Delaware Sea Grant, volunteers scooped 120 crab pots out of the Indian River.   The event was led by DSI Faculty Council member Art Trembanis, professor in UD’s School of Marine Science and Policy and Brittany Haywood, coastal ecology specialist.

With support from the National Science Foundation, DSI Resident Faculty member Rahmat Beheshti, center, is exploring how to evaluate, and ultimately improve, the reliability and fairness of AI in medicine.