The 2025 Delaware Data Science Symposium, an event organized by the UD Data Science Institute, seeks to bring together UD researchers and local partners interested in Data Science applications, theory, and pedagogy across domains. The symposium will be held on October 24th in-person at UD’s Star Campus in the Audion at STAR Tower. Among other activities, the symposium will include a keynote talk by Professor Katie Shilton, a poster session and associated lightning talks, networking opportunities, a panel discussion, and a series of breakout sessions.

This year’s symposium theme will focus on collaboration and co-development through data science & AI. As part of this overarching theme, the symposium will host a panel on data science collaboration in the era of AI, as well as a series of breakout sessions relating to (i) fostering collaboration between academia and non-federal partners, (ii) future computing infrastructure needs for data science and AI collaboration, (iii) harnessing unique Delaware-region datasets for research, training, and funding, and (iv) leveraging AI & collaboration in teaching and training across the Delaware region.

Please register and/or propose a poster here.  The deadline to propose a poster is October 10, 2025.

In addition to the Data Science Symposium on October 24th, the DSI will also be sponsoring or co-sponsoring a number of satellite events in the days leading up to the symposium as part of a full Data Science Week of events at the University of Delaware. Additional information on these satellite events may be found here.

Training & Education

For those interested in sponsoring this event, please see here.