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AI+Science Funding Opportunities
New funding sources to support the research and academic goals of students and faculty at the University of Chicago.
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UChicago Launches Transform Accelerator for Data Science & Emerging AI Startups
New Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation program provides support to early-stage companies built on data science and AI technologies.
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New DSI Open Spatial Lab Brings Expertise to Social Impact Organizations
The collaboration of the Data Science Institute and the Center for Spatial Data Science is a new hub for the tools and partnerships essential for maximizing the potential of spatial data science.
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New mBio Data Portal Brings Transparency to Genetically Modified Crops in Africa
A collaboration between DSI and researchers at the Universities of San Francisco, and Cambridge gathers and analyzes data on the funding, location, and research status for more than 230 GMO crop varieties in Africa.
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New Schmidt Futures Fellowship at UChicago to Foster Next Generation of AI-Driven Scientists
The Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, a program of Schmidt Futures, will train the next generation of scientists working at the intersection of AI + science and engineering.
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New 2022-23 Faculty Add Expertise in Visualization, Economics, Policy, and Data Science Education
Five new full-time faculty will expand DSI education and research efforts in data visualization, statistics, machine learning, and the economics of data.
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UChicago Data Science Institute Announces Founding Industry Affiliates
Program connects companies with the field-defining UChicago data science ecosystem and students for research collaborations.
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Upcoming Events

Join the DSI community for talks, workshops and other gatherings that spark new collaborations and technological discoveries.

Feb
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DSI EventsFeb 13, 2023

Matthias Katzfuss (Texas A&M) – Scalable Gaussian-Process Inference via Sparse Inverse Cholesky Factorization

Feb
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DSI EventsFeb 14, 2023

Ari Holtzman (U. of Washington) – Controlling Large Language Models: Generating (Useful) Text from Models We Don’t Fully Understand

Feb
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DSI EventsFeb 14, 2023

Gemma Moran (Columbia) – Identifiable Deep Generative Models via Sparse Decoding

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DSI EventsFeb 22, 2023

Data Science Preceptorship Info Session

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DSI EventsMar 06, 2023

Aldo Pacchiano (Microsoft Research)

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DSI EventsMar 02, 2023

Kristy Choi (Stanford)

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DSI EventsFeb 27, 2023

Frederic Koehler (Stanford)

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DSI EventsFeb 20, 2023

Chao Ma (Stanford) – Implicit Bias of Optimization Algorithms and Generalization of Over-Parameterized Neural Networks

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DSI EventsFeb 06, 2023

Alessandro Rinaldo (CMU) – High-Dimensional CLTs: Near-Optimal Rates and Modern Inference for OLS Regression

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DSI EventsMar 07, 2023

Saadia Gabriel (U. of Washington)

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DSI EventsMar 09, 2023

Michael Kim (UC Berkeley)

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DSI EventsFeb 20, 2023

Mina Lee (Stanford) – Designing and Evaluating Language Models for Human Interaction

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DSI EventsFeb 23, 2023

Amin Karbasi (Yale)

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