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Providing Closure

DSI affiliated faculty member Mark Moline (left) was the co-lead of a mission to Papua New Guinea in 2017 that located Heaven Can Wait, a B-24D Liberator plane from the United States Army Air Forces that was shot down over Hansa Bay in Papua New Guinea on March 11, 1944.

 
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UD Professor Kyle Davis has studied crops, crop rotation and national farming policies as the world struggles to feed its burgeoning population and use resources smartly amid climate change. Photo courtesy of Kyle Davis.

For the Record

DSI affiliated faculty member Anjana Bhat, professor of physical therapy in the College of Health Sciences, has been named a Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA).

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Carbon Credit Quality

In a new review, DSI faculty council member Rodrigo Vargas is among a group of leading forest scientists around the U.S. arguing that forest carbon market protocols are flawed and don’t ensure that issued carbon credits accurately account for reduced and removed carbon dioxide emissions.

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UD Professor Kyle Davis has studied crops, crop rotation and national farming policies as the world struggles to feed its burgeoning population and use resources smartly amid climate change. Photo courtesy of Kyle Davis.

For the Record

DSI Faculty Council member Jennifer Horney, professor, founding director of the Department of Epidemiology, and core faculty at UD’s Disaster Research Center, has been named to the Board of the Delaware Academy of Medicine within the Delaware Public Health Association.

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UD Professor Kyle Davis has studied crops, crop rotation and national farming policies as the world struggles to feed its burgeoning population and use resources smartly amid climate change. Photo courtesy of Kyle Davis.

Global Crop Data

DSI Resident Faculty member, Assistant Professor Kyle Davis (right) co-authored a paper focused on the Monthly Irrigated and Rainfed Cropped Areas Open Source (MIRCA-OS). MIRCA-OS offers high-resolution data on 23 crop classes and helps researchers, students and farmers examine irrigation, rainfall and croplands and how they interact with global water systems.

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Saleem Ali, the Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment at UD and chair of the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences, is the lead author of a new study that suggests the need for an international minerals agreement to ensure countries can produce the green technologies necessary to battle climate change. In this photo, Ali is pictured in the Bayan Obo mining region within the Inner Mongolia region of China in 2017 in front of a massive ore nugget of rare earth minerals which is being celebrated here with the following words: "Welcome to the Rare Earths Community.” Photo courtesy of Saleem Ali

For the Record

DSI faculty council member Xiao Fang, professor of MIS, along with faculty members from the Lerner College’s Department of Accounting, have been awarded support from the American Fintech Council and UD’s Data Science Institute for their project, Leveraging Large Language Models to Simulate Consumer Behavior for Fintech Product Innovation.

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The Power of Play

A recent study by DSI affiliated faculty member Anjana Bhat found cognitive benefits to whole-body movement in children with autism.

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A Game-Changing Tool

Using artificial intelligence (AI), DSI resident faculty member Austin Brockmeier and DSI affiliated faculty member Wei Qian, not pictured, were among University of Delaware researchers to develop a novel machine learning model that predicts an athlete’s risk of lower-extremity musculoskeletal (MKS) injury after concussion with 95% accuracy. A recent study published in Sports Medicine details the development of the AI model, which builds on previously published research showing that the risk of post-concussion injury doubles, regardless of the sport. 

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Bug Bites

A small but growing number of restaurants in the U.S. are cooking up insect-based dishes. Some insect farmers even sell roasted crickets and cricket powders at farmers markets. DSI affiliated faculty member Michael Crossley is trying to break that barrier down. In the University of Delaware College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR), the assistant professor and agricultural entomologist has launched a new course, Insects as Food (ENWC 267).

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Serving as a nucleating effort to catalyze and coordinate data science initiatives at UD

  • Coalesce researchers around Data Science research themes
  • Develop competitive Data Science research programs
  • Support Data Science and Computing Core Facility
  • Engage students in Data Science research
  • Collaborate with government and industry partners

Institutional Strengths

As the vast resource of new and diverse datasets are rapidly becoming available in nearly every aspect of life, data science has the potential to advance human understanding in all branches of science and humanities, and, address grand challenges facing society. The Institute plans to combine disparate, dynamic, and distributed datasets and enable everything from predicting the future behavior of complex systems to precise medical treatments, smart energy usage, and focused educational curricula.

Activities

Resources and Funding Support

  • Seed funding to support team-based research center grants, infrastructure grants and training grants
  • Support researchers to identify cross-disciplinary collaborators and access to Data Science & Computing Core Facility
  • Provide an inventory of data resources, computational tools, and data science-related courses/degree programs

Team Building and Networking

  • Networking Events: Connecting faculty, students, industry
  • Annual Research Symposium
  • Seminars / Distinguished Lecture Series
  • Research Workshops
  • Short Courses and Training: Collaborating with academic programs
  • Industry Engagement: Collaborating with OEIP and Horn Program

Data Science in the News

Data Analytics Programs Take Off

Colleges are working to meet demand for big data analysis with burgeoning degree and non-degree programs.  To keep up with the explosion of big data across all industries, college and universities have debuted dozens of data analytics programs during the past few...
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Prepare Undergrads for Data-Driven Workplace

Academic Institutions Should Prepare Undergraduates for a Data-Driven Workplace, New Report Recommends WASHINGTON – All U.S. undergraduate students should develop a basic understanding of data science to prepare them adequately for the workforce, says a...
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Our Mission

The Institute aims to accelerate research in data science, serving as a nucleating effort to catalyze interdisciplinary research collaborations across fields impacting our society.
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