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.

The Cost in Unclear

DSI Resident Faculty member Pinki Mondal and DSI Affiliated Faculty members AR Siders and Nina David are part of an interdisciplinary research team at the UD to receive $6 million in research funding on best practices for how coastal communities can combat sea level rise.

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Advancing Hope

DSI Affiliated Faculty member Shawn Polson, associate director of UD’s Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, and fellow researchers, recently received a $2.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Eye Institute (NIH/NEI) to further study the ABCA4 gene and its thousands of variants.

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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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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

Explore Global Opportunities

DSI Faculty Council, Professor Art Trembanis from the School of Marine Science and Policy was one of many Faculty directors at the Spring Study Abroad Fair. His table was decorated to promote his Winter 2024 New Zealand GEOL micro program.

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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.

Valuing Our Ecosystem

DSI Affiliated Faculty Martin Heintzelman (right) from the UD Department of Applied Economics and Statistics, at the Newark Reservoir, along with fellow researchers have received a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center to help the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers assess the economic value of what is gained or lost from the Corps’ environmental projects.

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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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For the Record

DSI Resident Faculty member Pinki Mondal, associate professor in the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences, has been selected to serve as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) “Multi-Year Assessment on Monitoring Biodiversity & Nature’s Contributions to People.”

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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.

Spurring Biotechnology Innovation

DSI Affiliated Faculty member Professor Mark Blenner in UD’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering is leading the team working to create the NSF Center for Robust, Equitable and Accessible Technology (CREATE) for Next-Generation BioFoundries. It will help accelerate biotechnology research and workforce training in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.

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New Directors for UD's Growing FinTech Endeavors

DSI Affiliated Faculty member Nektarios Tsoutsos (left) of the University of Delaware’s College of Engineering and Gang Wang of the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics have been named new co-directors of UD’s endeavors in financial technology.

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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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