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AI Meets Real Intelligence at UD Hackathon
Delaware Governor Matt Meyer, with DSI faculty council member Sunita Chandrasekaran, told the hackathon participants that winning the future “ultimately will come down to talent, to people. Our success comes down not to artificial intelligence, but to real intelligence.”
Stronger by Design
University of Delaware researchers, including DSI affiliated faculty member Nektarios Tsoutsos (right) are leading an NSF-funded project to build security directly into computer chip design, using artificial intelligence, game theory and cryptography to stop hardware attacks before they happen.
UD Faculty Named Among World’s Most Influential Researchers
DSI affiliated faculty member Xiang-Gen Xia (bottom left) was among five University of Delaware professors named to the 2025 list of Highly Cited Researchers, an international designation by Clarivate, a global analytics company.
Biotechnology Solutions for Plastics Problems
DSI affiliated faculty member Mark Blenner, Thomas and Kipp Gutshall Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has earned the AIChE Langer Prize for efforts to harness biology to manage plastic waste sustainably.
For the Record
DSI Infrastructure Working Group member Annie Johnson, associate University librarian for research, teaching and technology, is the coauthor of “The Benefits of Working with a University Press to Establish a Library Publishing Program: Case Studies from Temple University and the University of Delaware”.
Innovation in Focus
Miguel Garcia-Diaz, UD vice president for research, scholarship and innovation (right) and DSI Infrastructure Working Group member Amy Slocum, Delaware EPSCoR director (second from left) named five new Innovation Ambassadors to serve as mentors and champions for research translation and innovation across campus. DSI affiliated faculty member Matthew Mauriello (center) was among those named.
For the Record
DSI Faculty Council member Xiao Fang, professor of management information systems, JPMorgan Chase Senior Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Financial Services Analytics, at UD’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics recently had multiple coauthored papers accepted for publication by top journals in information systems, computing and operations.
The Power of Undergraduate Research
DSI Training Working Group member Esther Biswas-Fiss, (left) professor and chair of medical and molecular sciences, senior honors medical diagnostics major Sean Fletcher, and Sam Biswas, professor of medical and molecular sciences, worked together to uncover specific mutations that may alter protein function and significantly increase cancer risk, paving the way for improved approaches to diagnosing and treating HPV-related cancers.
For the Record
DSI Resident Faculty member Sanford Student, assistant professor in CEHD’s School of Education, was named to the Maryland State Department of Education Technical Advisory Committee and California’s Desired Results Developmental Profile Technical Advisory Committee and has also recently published several articles with DSI Resident Faculty member Ethan McCormick, SOE Assistant Professor.
NASA’s Next Generation of Scientists
DSI Fellow, Doctoral student Siddharth Chaini received one of only 24 NASA FINESST astrophysics grants, selected from more than 450 applications. He will create a method for combining data from surveys of the night sky collected with different scientific goals in mind. The work will make it easier for scientists to analyze the data and identify astral events, or previously unknown objects.
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.