UD Announces New Data Science Institute and Founding Director

Cathy Wu, the Unidel Edward G. Jefferson Chair in Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Delaware, has been appointed the director of UD’s new Data Science Institute. An expert in bioinformatics, she works on research projects that encompass 350 terabytes of data annually. A terabyte is a trillion bytes or units of digital information. The institute will engage researchers from all seven colleges at UD.

The University of Delaware is establishing a new institute to accelerate research in data science, and a pioneer in the interdisciplinary field, tapped from UD’s faculty ranks, will lead it. Cathy Wu, the Unidel Edward G. Jefferson Chair in Engineering and Computer Science and an expert in bioinformatics, will serve as the founding director of the University of Delaware Data Science Institute.