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 Bintong Chen has been appointed Chaplin Tyler Professor; the Chaplin Tyler Professorship recognizes exceptional accomplishment in scholarship and a profound commitment to graduate education.

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For the Record

DSI Infrastructure Working Group member Annie Johnson, associate University librarian for publishing, research and digital access, is a coauthor of “It Takes a Village: A Distributed Training Model for AI-Based Chatbots,” published in Information Technology and Libraries, 43(3).

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

Environmental Protection Agency Recognition

DSI Affiliated Faculty member Dionisios Vlachos, Unidel Dan Rich Chair in Energy and director of the Delaware Energy Institute, was recognized on Thursday, September 26, with the U.S. EPA 2024 Green Chemistry Challenge Award. The award recognizes Vlachos’ research and development of lubricant base oils from plant or food waste biomass, a greener alternative to petroleum-based products.

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For the Record

DSI Affiliated Faculty member Juan Perilla, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, recently published Elasticity of the HIV-1 Core Facilitates Nuclear Entry and Infection in the journal PLOS Pathogens.

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Mercury in Fish

Results from a new study led by DSI Affiliated Faculty member Mi-Ling Li, assistant professor of environmental chemistry and toxicology at the University of Delaware, suggest that tropical and subtropical fisheries account for more than 70% of methylmercury fished from the ocean, largely because they are the major fishing grounds for commercially important fish like tuna and countries from all over the world want to harvest these fish.

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.

Modern-day Alchemy

A research team led by DSI Affiliated Faculty members Dion Vlachos, a chemical and biomolecular engineer, and Michael Crossley, an entomologist and wildlife ecologist, has synthesized new active insecticidal ingredients that are target-specific and ecologically safer than conventional pesticides.

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 Jack Puleo, professor and chair of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, has been appointed by the secretary of the Army to a three-year term on the Coastal Engineering Research Board.

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UD Leads Frontier Research on Plastics Problem

DSI Affiliated Faculty member LaShanda Korley (center), Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the University of Delaware, directs the Center for Plastics Innovation, which is conducting pioneering research essential to reducing plastic waste.

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Distinguished Speaker

Ansu Chatterjee, Sinha Ennovate Endowed Chair Professor, University of Maryland Baltimore County will present: TOWARDS EXPLAINABLE DATA SCIENCE; A FAST AND CONSISTENT
FEATURE SELECTION PROCEDURE, on Friday, September 20, 2024 from 11a-12p in the FinTech Innovation hub, room 501.

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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...

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...

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.